
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 4400Series
›TV-142004 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons · Jacqueline McKenzie, Joel Gretsch, Patrick John Flueger
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.

Amazing StoriesSeries
›TV-PG1985 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family · 2 seasons
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

The Lost World
›1925 · Adventure, Fantasy, Drama · 104m · Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

They Live
›R1988 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 93m · Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

Videodrome
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 88m · James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

The Return of the Living Dead
›R1985 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Re-Animator
›NR1985 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

The Thing from Another World
›NR1951 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

The Fly
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror, Drama · 94m · David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

The PassageSeries
›TV-142019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 1 season · Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Saniyya Sidney, Caroline Chikezie
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.

PrimevalSeries
›TV-142007 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 5 seasons · Ciarán McMenamin, Ben Mansfield, Andrew-Lee Potts
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

Quatermass and the Pit
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

SurfaceSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Lake Bell, Jay R. Ferguson, Carter Jenkins
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.

The Twilight ZoneSeries
›TV-PG2002 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Forest Whitaker
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

MonstersSeries
›TV-141988 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy · 3 seasons
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode features a different monster, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.

I Am Legend
›PG-132007 · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 101m · Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

Starship Troopers
›R1997 · Adventure, Action, Thriller · 129m · Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."

Alien: Romulus
›R2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 119m · Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Planet Terror
›R2007 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 105m · Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Marley Shelton
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

Companion
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 97m · Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

Alien: EarthSeries
›TV-MA2025 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

The Devil-Doll
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Gemini Home EntertainmentSeries
›TV-142019 · Mystery, Documentary · 2 seasons · Remy Abode, Remy Abode, Jack
Gemini Home Entertainment is a found-footage–style analog horror web series presented as recovered public-access broadcasts, educational tapes, and emergency alerts from a corrupted media archive. Using lo-fi VHS aesthetics and ominous interruptions, it implies a hidden history of cosmic threats and government cover-ups. The series is widely regarded as one of the most influential examples of analog horror on YouTube.

Prometheus
›R2012 · Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror · 124m · Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
