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
28 Years Later
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 115m · Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
The Girl with All the Gifts
›R2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 111m · Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
The Blob
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Tarantula
›1955 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
The Tingler
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Vincent Price, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
The Revenge of Frankenstein
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
The Invisible Man Returns
›1940 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
›PG-131969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
The Damned
›NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
›1951 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 83m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
The Whisperer in Darkness
›2011 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 104m · Matt Foyer, Autumn Wendel, Stephen Blackehart
Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His enquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends.
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack
›1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 108m · Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene
A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Alan Dexter
Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
Descendent
›2025 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder
After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsessed with the need to protect his family from an unseen threat.
The Man They Could Not Hang
›NR1939 · Science Fiction, Horror, Crime · 64m · Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
War of the Worlds
›PG-132005 · Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Overlord
›R2018 · Horror, War, Science Fiction · 110m · Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
Slither
›R2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 96m · Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Scanners
›R1981 · Science Fiction, Horror · 103m · Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Hidden
›R2015 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Z NationSeries
›TV-142014 · Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama · 5 seasons · Keith Allan, Kellita Smith, Anastasia Baranova
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Phantasm
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Radius
›2017 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 93m · Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Night of the Creeps
›R1986 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 88m · Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.