Space horror movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant space horror movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out space horror, cult film, futuristic, suspenseful, scary and serious films and TV shows about / with alien, space, space travel, spacecraft, survival, danger, space and aliens, suspense, first contact and monster plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
space horror
TOP 10 movies tagged as space horror: Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien³ (1992), Screamers (1995), Alien Resurrection (1997), Event Horizon (1997), Pitch Black (2000), Pandorum (2009), Prometheus (2012), The Last Days on Mars (2013).
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List of space horror movies
894K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, frightening ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, monster, suspense, space travel, space, female protagonist, space and aliens, deadly creature, fear, creature, spacecraft, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, distant future
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726K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
alien, strong female character, survival, space travel, monster, space, space and aliens, female warrior, human versus alien, strong female lead, deadly creature, mysterious planet ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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305K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, space, prison, human versus alien, deadly creature, evil alien, space travel, survival, cryogenics, monster, distopia, redemption ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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28K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspenseful, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, androids and robots, struggle for survival, cyberpunk, apocalypse, alien planet, space, post apocalypse, distopia, robot, killer robot, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspenseful, splatter, bleak ...
Plot:
alien, space travel, space, monster, distopia, space and aliens, evil alien, strong female lead, apocalypse, suspense, robot, creature ...
Time:
future, 24th century
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186K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
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244K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, tense, harsh, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, creature, suspense, alien life-form, alien, space travel, escape, dark hero, space, deadly creature, space and aliens ...
Time:
future
Is relevant ?
154K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space, survival, space travel, post apocalypse, isolation, suspense, memory loss, survival horror, spacecraft, mission, end of the world, monster ...
Time:
future
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617K
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, alien, space travel, distant planet, space, androids, space and aliens, mission, spacecraft, alien life-form, mysterious planet, monster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to ...
Style:
scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Plot:
mars, space travel, space, mysterious planet, survival, zombie, astronaut, suspense, space and aliens, alien, death, zombie attack ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, 21st century
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56K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style:
scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
astronaut, suspense, found footage, space, alien encounter, nasa, space travel, expedition, moon landing, twists and turns, alien, heroic mission ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, future, year 1969, year 2011 ...
Place:
antarctica
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15K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A search and rescue team are transported through deep space to a distant mining colony to save the sole survivor of a biological outbreak. During their mission, they find a lethal weapon which is set to arrive on Earth within the hour.
Style:
intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, space horror ...
Plot:
space travel, alien, space, military, survival, suspense, insanity, death, rescue, virus, mind control, plague ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
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237K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style:
psychological, tense, cerebral, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
space travel, found footage, space, spacecraft, alien, space exploration, distant planet, astronaut, survival, suspense, moon, spacewalk ...
Time:
future, 50s, year 1972, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
alien invasion, distopia, suspense, resistance, alien, post apocalypse, alien race, attack, alien technology, brutality, urban setting, fight ...
Time:
future, 2020s, near future, year 2019
Place:
new york, usa, moscow russia, north america, london ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Crew members aboard a space ship encounter an alien life form intent on killing them.
Style:
experimental, space horror, slasher
Plot:
space, monster, alien, exploitation, mars, alien abduction, buddies, friendly alien, space travel, crystal, trapped in space, spacecraft ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
Style:
futuristic, space horror, cult film
Plot:
space, apocalypse, man versus machine, reanimated corpse, evil computer, professor, murder, female android, starship captain, possessed human, telepath, incest overtones ...
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19K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, sexy, exciting, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, space, alien, rescue, space and aliens, survival, natural disaster, suspense, heroic mission, race against time, save the world, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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Genre: Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A band finally gets the opportunity for that breakthrough gig if they can make it to an "in" club on another planet in time...
Style:
psychotronic, space horror, futuristic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot:
punk, alien, space, nightclub, evil alien, rock and roll, erotica, exploitation, supernatural being, woman with a gun, fantasy world, dancing ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.
Style:
space horror, weird, cult film
Plot:
monster, space, spacecraft, creature, alien
Time:
future
Is relevant ?
Genre: Sci-Fi, Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 778 min.
TV show
Story:
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles is a CGI animated television series, based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein and the 1997 film adaptation. The film's director, Paul Verhoeven, served as executive producer. It follows the exploits of ...
Style:
space horror, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
space wars, military, space, evil alien, alien encounter, alien invasion, dark humor, distopia, creature feature, alien, space colony, space travel ...
Time:
future
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mars, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, catastrophe, robot, spacecraft, save the world, ecological disaster, desert, stranded ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
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58K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style:
slasher, scary, sexy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space, serial killer, suspense, murder, monster, masked killer, psychopath, survival, space travel, violent, scientist, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three adventurous space pilots voyage to the all-female planet Andromina, looking forward to the most famous pleasure planet in the galaxy. When they arrive they find that all the women have disappeared, and it's up to them to figure out where ...
Style:
queer horror, space horror, sexual, humorous, erotic ...
Plot:
matriarchy, sorority, voyeurism, nude girl, nude, voyeur, lesbian sex, lesbian, sex, lesbianism, female nudity, sexploitation ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) is a hard nosed police chief in the year 2025. She and a police snatch squad are sent to Mars to apprehend a dangerous criminal James Williams (Ice Cube). Mars has been occupied by humans for some time and they ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mars, zombie, survival, space, alien, supernatural, alien possession, suspense, ghost, martian, apocalypse, chaos ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 80s
Is relevant ?
84K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, confusing, intellectual ...
Plot:
space, afterlife, space station, space and aliens, space travel, mysterious planet, alien, astronaut, trapped in space, planet, space exploration, clones ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
Style:
futuristic, stylized, intense, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, space, military, war, alien, battles, suspense, space travel, heroes, soldier, mars, burned alive ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System. Captain Abraham Van Helsing and his crew composed of the blonde assistant Aurora Ash; the crippled navigator Arthur "The ...
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, scary, serious, space horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dracula, vampire, space, supernatural, space and aliens, space travel, good versus evil, one man army, survival, deadly creature, master villain, rescue ...
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20K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, tense, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot:
space travel, space, spacecraft, isolation, post apocalypse, distopia, uncover truth, teleportation, space and aliens, alien, suspense, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
Is relevant ?
115K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer ...
Style:
rough, splatter, futuristic, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, mars, deadly creature, zombie, alien, military, creature, virus, suspense, video game, marines, genetics ...
Time:
future, 2040s, jurassic, 2020s, 21st century
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