Sub-genre
Sci-Fi Horror
🛸 Every sci-fi horror title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
1342 titles
The Twilight ZoneSeries
›TV-PG1959 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 5 seasons · Rod Serling
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Black MirrorSeries
›TV-MA2011 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 7 seasons
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Stranger ThingsSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Alien
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
The X-FilesSeries
›TV-141993 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · 11 seasons · David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
›2009 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 62m · David Tennant, Lindsay Duncan, Peter O'Brien
In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
The BoysSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · 5 seasons · Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Aliens
›R1986 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 137m · Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Garth Marenghi's DarkplaceSeries
›2004 · Comedy, Mystery, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Matthew Holness, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
FringeSeries
›TV-142008 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons · Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
Sense8Series
›TV-MA2015 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 2 seasons · Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Max Riemelt, Jamie Clayton
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Bride of Frankenstein
›NR1935 · Horror, Science Fiction · 75m · Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
MisfitsSeries
›TV-MA2009 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy · 5 seasons · Joseph Gilgun, Karla Crome, Nathan McMullen
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.
The Outer LimitsSeries
›TV-PG1963 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
The Thing
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 109m · Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Night of the Living Dead
›NR1968 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 96m · Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
›1956 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Frankenstein
›1931 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
The Fly
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Serenity
›PG-132005 · Science Fiction, Action, Adventure · 119m · Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Gina Torres
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.
Dawn of the Dead
›NR1978 · Horror, Science Fiction · 127m · David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
The Invisible Man
›NR1933 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
A Quiet Place
›PG-132018 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 91m · Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
TorchwoodSeries
›TV-MA2006 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 4 seasons · John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Alexa Havins
The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
