
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

Black Swarm
›2007 · Horror, Action · 89m · Sebastien Roberts, Sarah Allen, Jayne Heitmeyer
A widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly; an entomologist, Katherine is summoned to help with the investigation, along with Devin, Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends Eli, a scientist who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and who is now trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.

Food of the Gods II
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Réal Andrews
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.

The Dark
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

Underworld
›R1985 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 103m · Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Nicola Cowper
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.

The Terror Experiment
›R2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 83m · C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, Jason London
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of uninfected are fighting to get out.

The Dead Outside
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Sandra Louise Douglas, Alton Milne, Sharon Osdin
A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent

Missile to the Moon
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.

Stormhouse
›R2011 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Grant Masters, Patrick Flynn, Grahame Fox
The military have captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity. And now it wants to play.

Slayer
›2006 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Casper Van Dien, Tony Plana, Kevin Grevioux
An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.

Ghost Storm
›PG-132012 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Crystal Allen, Carlos Bernard, Steve Bacic
An action packed chase led by Hal and Ashley to save the people on this small island from a strange electrical storm which is led by angry souls from a mass suicide looking for revenge.

Flying Monkeys
›2013 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Electra Avellan, Maika Monroe, Vincent Ventresca
A teenage girl thinks that the monkey she owns is her innocent pet, but it turns out to be something much more dangerous, an evil shapeshifter capable of unthinkable acts no loyal pet would ever be able to perform.

Watchers III
›1994 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Wings Hauser, Gregory Scott Cummins, Daryl Keith Roach
A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.

Manticore
›2005 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Robert Beltran, Jeff Fahey, Chase Masterson
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, a US Army Squad is sent to a small Iraqi town to locate a missing news crew, only to find the residents of the town dead and a living weapon of mass destruction, a Manticore, awakened from its long slumber by a terrorist leader wanting to rid his land of the American invaders at any price.

Bad Girls from Mars
›1990 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Edy Williams, Oliver Darrow, Brinke Stevens
Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production "Bad Girls from Mars." The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town. Meanwhile the killings continue, and detectives try to stop the fiend responsible.

Sick
›2012 · Science Fiction, Horror · 95m · Christina Aceto, Richard Roy Sutton, Robert Nolan
Two years into the outbreak, SICK roam the land and the remaining survivors struggle day-to-day trying to rebuild civilization. With the SICK more active at night time, three people need to seek shelter in an empty home.

Chernobyl Diaries
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jesse McCartney, Devin Kelley
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

Ghosts of Mars
›R2001 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier
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 the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.

Virus
›R1999 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 100m · Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

Werewolves
›R2024 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera
A year after a supermoon’s light activated a dormant gene, transforming humans into bloodthirsty werewolves and causing nearly a billion deaths, the nightmare resurfaces as the supermoon rises again. Two scientists attempt to stop the mutation but fail and must now struggle to reach one of their family homes.

The Devil Conspiracy
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 111m · Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Eveline Hall
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.

Pandemic
›PG-132016 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 91m · Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle
After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they head into the Californian streets where everything is considered a trap.

The Lair
›2022 · Horror, Action · 93m · Charlotte Kirk, Jonathan Howard, Jamie Bamber
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

Rupture
›2016 · Thriller, Science Fiction · 102m · Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare, Kerry Bishé
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
›PG1988 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen M. Waldron
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
