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 Signal
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 103m · Anessa Ramsey, Justin Welborn, AJ Bowen
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
The Block Island Sound
›NR2021 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 100m · Chris Sheffield, Michaela McManus, Neville Archambault
Something lurks off the coast of Block Island, silently influencing the behavior of fisherman, Tom Lynch. After suffering a series of violent outbursts, he unknowingly puts his family in grave danger.
It's Alive
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.
Dead End Drive-In
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 87m · Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford
In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.
Frankenstein
›R2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Danny Huston
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.
The BeastSeries
›TV-PG1996 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.
Die, Monster, Die!
›1965 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Schlock
›PG1973 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.
Depraved
›2019 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 114m · David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
The Phoenix Tapes '97
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 67m · Turner Clay, Peter Miller
In 1997, four campers went missing during the Phoenix Lights incident and their bodies were never found. The Phoenix Tapes 97 is comprised of their final footage. This film is dedicated to the lives lost during the events displayed. To their families and friends and to the authorities who continue to search for answers. The tapes were found by Dustin Miller's father two years after Dustin was mysteriously shot and killed at a traffic stop in Texas. Peter Miller believes his son was acting as a whistleblower and had smuggled the tapes from his classified government agency in an effort to expose the truth as to what really happened to the four missing campers seen in the tapes. After searching every newspaper and media publication around Phoenix during that time period, we only found one initial announcement that four campers were reported missing, as well as a formal police report folder with local PD but the folder had no files inside.
The Colossus of New York
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
The Maze
›1953 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 80m · Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
The Mad Ghoul
›1943 · Science Fiction, Horror · 65m · George Zucco, David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
The Vampire
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
Dead Dicks
›2019 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Jillian Harris, Heston Horwin, Matt Keyes
After Becca receives a distressing call from her suicidal brother Richie, she rushes over to his apartment and finds him alive and well - surrounded by copies of his own dead body.
EtheriaSeries
›2020 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 6 seasons
From post-apocalyptic westerns to demented comedies to terrifying horror and gore, ETHERIA serves up the perfect blend of mind-bending and panic-inducing excitement from the best emerging women genre directors in the world. Each episode showcases a vision of the fantastic in this new anthology series created to introduce amazing directors to devoted genre fans.
The Thing
›R2011 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 103m · Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
Deep Blue Sea
›R1999 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.
Anon
›R2018 · Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery · 100m · Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried, Colm Feore
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.
Quarantine
›R2008 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Dania Ramirez, Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
The Bay
›R2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Kristen Connolly, Will Rogers, Michael Beasley
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours through people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge. What follows is a nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror.
Black Sheep
›R2006 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney, Danielle Mason
After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.
Firestarter
›R1984 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 114m · David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
Honeymoon
›R2014 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber
On her honeymoon, a young bride sleepwalks into the woods surrounding a secluded cabin. When she returns, she looks the same—but something about her is terrifyingly different.