Space horror
by Mighty_Emperor | created - 30 Oct 2012 | updated - 3 days ago | Public
In space no one can hear you scream
... unless you are in a spaceship or you've left your suit mike open or the filmmakers don't give a damn about physics and decide it'd make a cool scene.
Basically horror films that take place onboard spaceships or on alien (and often hostile) planets - a sub-genre of the sci-fi horror cross-genre. It does see to grade into sci-fi action or thrillers at the edges (especially where people are being hunted down and killed off one-by-one, for example).
Obviously Alien had a big impact on the scene, leading to numerous cheap rip-offs, but there is another phenomena which About.com highlight: "In horror movies, going into space seems to be the equivalent of a sitcom adding a cute little kid to the cast in a last-ditch effort to revitalize the series" and you can see plenty of examples here - once you've jumped the shark in your horror franchise where do you go? Space, that's where. I expect Final Destination 8 to be sub-titled: "Final Frontier". http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/tp/outerspacehorror.htm
I do love such films - many moons ago when I was a much smaller Emperor for a birthday treat I asked to watch a couple of videos - Alien and Dark Star. However, this was back when VCRs were just appearing - they were as big as a medium-sized herbivore and there were only a few thousand in the country, so my Dad had to haul home the one from his school and then we had to venture out to the dark and seedy video rental shop (that managed to cling on even after a large video rental store opened up down the road, just because of the atmosphere and selection of movies).
Also-rans: There are some that didn't quite make the list: Lifeforce, as not much of the horror elements are set in space, and Dark City, as the space angle is the twist ending and doesn't influence the rest of the film.
Further reading: * In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Outer Space Horror Movies - http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/tp/outerspacehorror.htm * The curse of outer space horror movies - http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/18925/the-curse-of-outer-space-horror-movies * The Astro-Horror! The Astro-Horror! Apollo 18 and Its Cinematic Kin - http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/09/astro-horror-movies/ Galaxy of Gore: 10 Must-See Horror Flicks Set in Space - http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/top-10-space-horror/
See also: Military science-fiction as there is plenty of crossover where space marines have to take on the terrors of the spaceways.
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1. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 763,609 | Gross: $78.90M
Here to provide the list with a fancy thumbnail - the list begins below:
2. Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
64 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Susan Morrow
Votes: 1,443
3. This Island Earth (1955)
PG | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller
Votes: 8,659
4. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
PG | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The first manned expedition to Mars is decimated by an unknown life form which stows away on the rescue ship.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran
Votes: 4,345
5. Terrore nello spazio (1965)
88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi
Votes: 5,138 | Gross: $0.25M
aka Planet of the Vampires
6. Mutiny in Outer Space (1965)
82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A creeping fungus starts killing off astronauts on a trip back from the moon.
Directors: Hugo Grimaldi, Arthur C. Pierce | Stars: William Leslie, Dolores Faith, Pamela Curran, Richard Garland
Votes: 350
7. Queen of Blood (1966)
78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit. An alien ship crash lands on Mars, and a rescue team is sent from ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 1,563
8. The Green Slime (1968)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom
Votes: 3,004
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 583,404 | Gross: $56.95M
There is a rogue AI trying to kill the lead character, so I'm sticking it in.
10. Solaris (1972)
167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 77,367
11. Dark Star (1974)
PG | 83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm
Votes: 21,622
12.
Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode:
Dragon's Domain
(1975)
G | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Discredited eagle pilot Tony Cellini is beset by recurring nightmares in which he was the only survivor of disastrous space mission. Now the moon is approaching the same set of circumstances that Cellini encountered.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Gianni Garko
Votes: 318
13. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 763,609 | Gross: $78.90M
14. Saturn 3 (1980)
18A | 96 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot robot.
Directors: Stanley Donen, John Barry | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Ed Bishop
Votes: 8,123
15. The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980)
92 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of men and women investigates the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.
Directors: Robert Emenegger, Allan Sandler | Stars: Gordon De Vol, Jacqueline Ray, Jackson Bostwick, Stan Wojno
Votes: 273
16. Inseminoid (1981)
93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham, Steven Grives
Votes: 2,780
The start of the Alien cash-ins.
17. Galaxy of Terror (1981)
81 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Science fiction suspense thriller, in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.
Director: Bruce D. Clark | Stars: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens
Votes: 6,460
18. Forbidden World (1982)
77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles
Votes: 4,035
19. The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
88 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Kimmel | Stars: Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Leslie Nielsen, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 1,518
20. Creature (1985)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An expedition to Titan uncovers an alien being, that goes on a rampage.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Votes: 3,241 | Gross: $4.78M
aka Titan Find
There is an uncut Blu Ray/DVD of this in the pipeline - there is an interview with the man behind it here.
21. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo visited has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, colonial marines have impressive firepower, but will that be enough?
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 635,715 | Gross: $85.16M
While the first film was very much a horror film, the sequel mixed in a large dose of military science-fiction (in fact this was the cinematic distillation of MSF, until the Starship Troopers film arrived).
22. Star Crystal (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Crew members aboard a space ship encounter an alien life form intent on killing them.
Director: Lance Lindsay | Stars: C. Juston Campbell, Faye Bolt, John W. Smith, Taylor Kingsley
Votes: 874
23. Vicious Lips (1986)
84 min | Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Sometime in the distant future, a fledgling band gets an opportunity for a breakthrough, if they can make it in time to a faraway planet to perform in a very popular club.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Dru-Anne Perry, Gina Calabrese, Linda Kerridge, Shayne Farris
Votes: 1,381
24. Nightflyers (1987)
89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.
Director: Robert Collector | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount
Votes: 1,032 | Gross: $1.15M
25. Moontrap (1989)
92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Dyke | Stars: Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Leigh Lombardi, Robert Kurcz
Votes: 2,900
Discovery of ancient astronauts on the Moon triggers all sorts of unpleasantness, some of it back on Earth but it makes it into this category.
26. The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
87 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait.
Director: D.J. Webster | Stars: Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel, Camilla More
Votes: 2,088
27. Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1990)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Military scientists discover an alternate dimension and, subsequently, aliens with an appetite for human flesh.
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Koslo, Tara Buckman, Jano Frandsen
Votes: 1,420
It is another hostile dimension but the effect is the same, although the film is awful and connected in name only to the earlier film (which I enjoy).
28. Dead Space (1991)
13+ | 72 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A deadly virus attacks the crew of a Saturn space station.
Director: Fred Gallo | Stars: Marc Singer, Laura Mae Tate, Bryan Cranston, Judith Chapman
Votes: 828
29. Alien³ (1992)
R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After her last encounter, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she has brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Votes: 270,181 | Gross: $55.47M
30. Critters 4 (1992)
87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After being cryogenically frozen and waking up on a space station in the near future, the Critters aim to have the unwitting crew for lunch.
Director: Rupert Harvey | Stars: Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Paul Whitthorne, Anders Hove
Votes: 6,608
31. Dark Universe (1993 Video)
PG | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
On its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Latshaw | Stars: Joe Estevez, Blake Pickett, Laurie Sherman, Bently Tittle
Votes: 286
For the opening scenes.
32. Screamers (1995)
18A | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andrew Lauer
Votes: 24,511 | Gross: $5.78M
33. Trapped in Space (1994 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Jack Wagner, Jack Coleman, Craig Wasson, Sigrid Thornton
Votes: 436
34. Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
18+ | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the 22nd century, a scientist attempts to right the wrong his ancestor created: the puzzle box that opens the gates of Hell and unleashes Pinhead and his Cenobite legions.
Director: Kevin Yagher | Stars: Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley, Charlotte Chatton
Votes: 18,700 | Gross: $16.68M
35. Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996 Video)
18A | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Our deadly leprechaun is in space to woo a beautiful princess who is impressed with his gold and desires to separate him from it.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Warwick Davis, Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins, Guy Siner
Votes: 6,359
36. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
R | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone. Along with a crew of space pirates, she must again battle the deadly aliens and stop them from reaching Earth.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman
Votes: 223,192 | Gross: $47.75M
37. Event Horizon (1997)
18A | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
Votes: 153,412 | Gross: $26.67M
Another classic of the genre.
38. Starship Troopers (1997)
18A | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
Votes: 262,731 | Gross: $54.81M
39.
Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode:
Snap Ending
(1997)
R | 24 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Captain of a small spaceship must try to keep her two increasingly paranoid and hostile crewmen calm, when the ship's computer registers an unknown viral infection, activates the ship's lockdown mode and starts a self destruct sequence.
Director: Sean Astin | Stars: Jennifer Hetrick, Kathleen Wilhoite, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton
Votes: 35
40. Alien Cargo (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a time when interplanetary shipping is routine, poor judgment is a fatal error. The crew of the Solar System Shipping shipping vessel number 17 runs in shifts. When the second shift ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Haber | Stars: Jason London, Missy Crider, Simon Westaway, Elizabeth Alexander
Votes: 993
41. Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999–2000)
PG | Sci-Fi, Animation, Action
The missions of a Mobile Infantry squad as they participate in a war of survival against a ferocious alien insectoid invader.
Stars: Nicholas Guest, Bill Fagerbakke, James Horan, Alexander Polinsky
Votes: 1,917
42. Pitch Black (2000)
14A | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel, Keith David
Votes: 221,584 | Gross: $39.24M
43. Supernova (I) (2000)
14A | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew which includes a captain and pilot, a co-pilot, a medical... See full summary »
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: James Spader, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, Angela Bassett
Votes: 16,835 | Gross: $14.22M
44. Red Planet (2000)
PG | 106 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Director: Antony Hoffman | Stars: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt
Votes: 54,458 | Gross: $18.00M
45. Blood Red Planet (2000 Video)
81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
From beyond the galaxy comes a terror heading toward earth, destroying everything in its path: a rogue planetoid from the outer reaches of the cosmos itself. After a failed attempt by the ... See full summary »
Directors: Jon McBride, John Polonia, Mark Polonia | Stars: Jon McBride, Robert Thomas, Joette Krisiewicz, Todd Carpenter
Votes: 82
46. Jason X (2001)
18A | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Jason Voorhees returns with a new look, a new machete, and his same murderous attitude as he is awakened on a spaceship in the 25th century.
Director: James Isaac | Stars: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Jeff Geddis, David Cronenberg
Votes: 49,090 | Gross: $13.12M
47. Ghosts of Mars (2001)
18A | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham
Votes: 50,096 | Gross: $8.43M
48. Solaris (2002)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis
Votes: 77,855 | Gross: $14.97M
49. Terrarium (2003)
81 min | Sci-Fi
12 astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony, on a newly discovered planet. They awake from their frozen 15 year sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and that they are trapped in ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Conway | Stars: Tim Daley, Jason Hall, Sheila Conway, Jake Bass
Votes: 211
50. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004 Video)
14A | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Billy Brown, Richard Burgi, Kelly Carlson, Cy Carter
Votes: 21,610
51. Dracula 3000 (2004)
R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Count Dracula terrorizes the crew of a spaceship.
Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Erika Eleniak, Coolio, Alexandra Kamp
Votes: 5,892
52. Doom (2005)
18A | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei
Votes: 104,598 | Gross: $28.21M
53. Bloodsuckers (2005 TV Movie)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Intergalactic vampire hunters. "Buffy" meets "Star Trek" in a "Mad Max" world.
Director: Matthew Hastings | Stars: Joe Lando, Dominic Zamprogna, Natassia Malthe, Leanne Adachi
Votes: 1,626
aka Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe
54. The Planet (2006 Video)
R | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Planet concerns a group of shipwrecked mercenaries and their struggle for survival on an alien world. A world where death is only the beginning.
Director: Mark Stirton | Stars: Mike Mitchell, Patrick Wight, Scott Ironside, Shawn Paul Hastings
Votes: 273
55. The Sea of Perdition (2006)
8 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
A Warren Comics style short portraying a stranded cosmonaut on Mars.
Director: Richard Stanley | Star: Maggie Moor
Votes: 142
Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSK2oLvTX4
56. Sunshine (2007)
14A | 107 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 228,902 | Gross: $3.68M
57. Savage Planet (2007 TV Movie)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of scientists explore a new planet and find much more than expected.
Director: Andrew Wild | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Reagan Pasternak, Joel Keller, Roman Podhora
Votes: 688
58. Plaguers (2008)
R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a band of sexy space pirates hijack a fuel-transport vessel bound for Earth, an alien virus known only as "Thanatos" is accidentally released. The contagion mutates its victims, ... See full summary »
Director: Brad Sykes | Stars: Steve Railsback, Alexis Zibolis, Noelle Perris, Jared Cohn
Votes: 832
59. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008 Video)
14A | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.
Director: Edward Neumeier | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock, Stephen Hogan, Boris Kodjoe
Votes: 22,267
60. Dante 01 (2008)
13+ | 82 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Caro | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Linh Dan Pham, Dominique Pinon, Simona Maicanescu
Votes: 5,607
61. Interplanetary (2008)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A motley assortment of men and women live and work together on a base on Mars for the Interplanetary Corporation. Things are pretty dull and unexciting until one day the crew find ... See full summary »
Director: Chance Shirley | Stars: Cary Borders, Alison Britt, David Brown, James H. Brown
Votes: 236
62. Dead Space: Downfall (2008 Video)
14A | 74 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
A prequel to the hit video game chronicling the discovery of the Red Marker and the first Necromorph outbreak.
Director: Chuck Patton | Stars: Nika Futterman, Keith Szarabajka, Jim Cummings, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 9,786
Animated film based on the video game, not the movie of the same name listed above.
Although you get a quite a few space vampires on this list, there is a gap for zombies in space which this (and its sequel) help fill. However, we need more.
63. Pandorum (2009)
18A | 108 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue
Votes: 141,390 | Gross: $10.33M
64. Moon (2009)
14A | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 327,937 | Gross: $5.01M
65. Cargo (2009)
112 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.
Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter | Stars: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzom Brauen
Votes: 18,487
66. The Dark Lurking (2009)
R | 97 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The eight remaining survivors of a secret research facility barricade themselves away from a horde of ancient and deadly creatures.
Director: Gregory Connors | Stars: Tonia Renee Hammerich, Bret Kennedy, Ozzie Devrish, Roslyn van Doorn
Votes: 1,668
aka Alien Undead
67. Screamers: The Hunting (2009 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "... See full summary »
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen, Greg Bryk
Votes: 5,081
68. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The crew of spaceship begin to die because of unknown defect in a virtual reality device.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo
Votes: 4,026
69. Star Runners (2009 TV Movie)
80 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Given an undercover government mission to retrieve a "crate" from a distant planet, TY JOHNS and LEI CHEN find that they must smuggle not a crate, but a woman off world -- and when their ... See full summary »
Director: Mat King | Stars: Connor Trinneer, James Kyson, Toni Trucks, Aja Evans
Votes: 1,010
70. Predators (2010)
18A | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race.
Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga
Votes: 207,917 | Gross: $52.00M
71. Apollo 18 (2011)
14A | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego | Stars: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, Michael Kopsa
Votes: 53,039 | Gross: $17.69M
72. The Darkest Matter (2011)
66 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Space is a dangerous place for a child. When their colony ship is destroyed in deep space, Elaine Barrett, and a small group of children survivors find themselves marooned on a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: James Fox | Stars: Katy Guttman, Matthew Kersman, Bailey Hansen, Christie Call
73. Dead Space: Aftermath (2011 Video)
14A | 85 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
When contact with the spaceship USG Ishimura is lost after a Necromorph outbreak, Earth sends the ship USG O'Bannon to investigate, but contact is lost with them as well.
Director: Mike Disa | Stars: Christopher Judge, Ricardo Chavira, Gwendoline Yeo, Curt Cornelius
Votes: 3,818
74. Earthkiller (2011 Video)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Trapped on a space station orbiting Earth, a small army of human survivors battle the Undead in order to prevent the destruction of the Earth.
Director: Andrew Bellware | Stars: Robin Kurtz, Walter Barnes, Joe Beuerlein, Greg Oliver Bodine
Votes: 372
75. Prometheus (I) (2012)
14A | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
Votes: 558,334 | Gross: $126.48M
76. Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
R | 89 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A black op has gone terribly wrong. Now, Captain Carmen Ibanez and a hardcore trooper famed as Major Henry "Hero" Varro must lead a team of battle-weary troopers to find the missing ship and discover what went wrong.
Director: Shinji Aramaki | Stars: Luci Christian, David Matranga, Justin Doran, David Wald
Votes: 10,609
77. Seed (II) (2012)
14 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set in the year 2071, where technology has brought mankind to the brink of colonization on a planet named Gaia, one man takes on an isolated mission and discovers unearthly horrors that could bring an end to life on this planet.
Director: Tyson Wade Johnston | Stars: Justin Zachary, Christopher DesRoches, Georgia Boonen, Melanie Presson
Votes: 96
Watch on YouTube and Vimeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDZmbx474k http://vimeo.com/52045867
78. Riddick (2013)
18A | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 151,306 | Gross: $42.03M
Almost a semi-remake of Pitch Black.
79. The Last Days on Mars (2013)
14A | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.
Director: Ruairi Robinson | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams
Votes: 34,529 | Gross: $0.02M
80. Stranded (V) (2013)
84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Four astronauts working at a lunar base suffer a meteor strike that brings an infection that leads to paranoia, fear and death.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: Christian Slater, Amy Matysio, Michael Therriault, Brendan Fehr
Votes: 3,850
81. Doctor Who: Besieged (2013)
95 min | Sci-Fi
Epic 2 part fan film production that crosses Doctor Who with the Alien Saga. The Doctor and his Companion are summoned aboard the HMS Archer, a military research vessel in deep space, trapped by an unknown and unstoppable alien force.
Director: Lauren Lamarr | Stars: Ryan Hendrick, Jennifer Byrne, Natalie Clark, Hamish Wilson
Votes: 19
Doctor Who fan film.
82. Dead Space: Chase to Death (2013)
5 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Issac Clarke quietly walks through the ship's dark corridors while trying to evade its infected inhabitants.
Director: Eric Zaragoza | Stars: Adam Lopez, Kysa Koenigs
Votes: 135
83. The Drift (I) (2014)
101 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A salvage vessel arrives at a spaceship graveyard, but its crew soon discover that some things on this Drift are still alive - and hungry.
Director: Darren Scales | Stars: Jonny Black, Victoria Hopkins, Vin Hawke, Peter Revel-Walsh
Votes: 155
84. Crawl or Die (2014)
90 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
An elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team ... See full summary »
Director: Oklahoma Ward | Stars: Nicole Alonso, Torey Byrne, Tommy Ball, Wil Crown
Votes: 1,558
85. Ejecta (2014)
18A | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The story of one night on earth that changed everything we know about the universe.
Directors: Chad Archibald, Matt Wiele | Stars: Julian Richings, Lisa Houle, Adam Seybold, Mark Gibson
Votes: 1,339
86. Infini (2015)
14A | 110 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An elite 'search and rescue' team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak.
Director: Shane Abbess | Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Luke Ford
Votes: 13,733
87. Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015 TV Movie)
14A | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A monstrous tornado unleashes ravenous sharks from Washington, D.C., all the way down to Orlando, Florida.
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassandra Scerbo, Frankie Muniz
Votes: 11,529
The action transitions to space for the finale.
Possibly the best of the Sharknado films, if that is qunatifiable, and I suspect marks the point of Peak Sharknado.
88. Moontrap: Target Earth (2017)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A long forgotten ancient spacecraft discovered on Earth. Investigations carried out by Scout transport her to the moon whereupon she meets the impressive machines preserving the wisdom of that long lost civilization.
Director: Robert Dyke | Stars: Tarick Salmaci, Niki Spiridakos, Sarah Butler, Damon Dayoub
Votes: 2,041
The long-awaited Moontrap sequel.
89. Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Fin, his family and the cosmos have been blissfully sharknado-free in the five years since the most recent attack, but now sharks and tornadoes are being whipped up in unexpected ways and places.
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Masiela Lusha, Cody Linley
Votes: 7,129
In the opening scenes we see them fighting sharks in space and on the Moon. As well continuing the story from the end of the last movie, it might be a wink to the Rule of Four mentioned above or they were just throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks (after watching the it, I'm leaning towards the latter, but thought it worth a mention).
90. Alien: Covenant (2017)
18A | 122 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride
Votes: 246,237 | Gross: $74.26M
91. Life (I) (2017)
14A | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 200,125 | Gross: $30.23M
A sci-fi film and the savage angle might suggest horror elements, but everyone is keeping their cards close to their chests on the plot, for now.
93. Dead Space (I)
Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
Starship engineer Isaac Clarke and his salvage crew get stranded aboard the giant mining ship ishimura. Clarke must repair the ship and survive its crew who have been changed into alien ... See full summary »
The live action film.
94. Dead Space (II)
Sci-Fi | Announced
A spaceship on a voyage to colonize a distant planet becomes infected with a deadly parasite and the ship becomes a flying hypodermic on a collision course with planet Earth.
Director: Damian X. Fulton
95. Full Moon Fever
Action, Adventure, Horror | Announced
From the graphic novel of the same name. Plumbers head to a space research facility on the moon for routine inspection and repair. Only to find it is infested with Werewolves Big, Mean and hungry Werewolves.
Director: Simon Hunter
I believe this is the one based on the comic, which features werewolves on the Moon.
96. Ocean
Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
An international space crew stumbles upon a cache of weapons and bodies buried deep in the ice of Jupiter's moon, Europa.
97. Galaxy of Horrors (2017)
105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Dennis Cabella, Javier Chillon, Todd Cobery, Andrew Desmond, Benni Diez, Marcello Ercole, Richard Karpala, Justin McConnell, Antonio Padovan, Fabio Prati, Ethan Shaftel, Marinko Spahic | Stars: Olli Banjo, Adam Buller, Michelle Colao, Greg Engbrecht
Votes: 659
98.
Doctor Who (2005– )
Episode:
Oxygen
(2017)
PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When the Doctor, Bill and Nardole become trapped on a space station without oxygen, they discover the spacesuits are trying to kill them.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Kieran Bew
Votes: 3,468
99. Violent Starr
90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi | Post-production
Violent Starr is a female space pirate, that ascends to be a hero through an artifact of a legendary warrior. She fights against the Godmichael and his evil minions swarming out to eliminate creatures and races that they deem "unworthy".
Director: Oliver Tietgen | Stars: Michael Berryman, Bianca Bradey, Luigi Cozzi, Kim Sønderholm
100. Nightflyers (2018)
60 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of scientists embark on a mission aboard a ship called the Nightflyer to investigate a mysterious alien signal, but soon begin to question if there is already something on-board the Nightflyer with them.
Stars: Eoin Macken, David Ajala, Jodie Turner-Smith, Angus Sampson
Votes: 11,072
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