13 disturbing sci-fi and horror movies to watch (and experience) in streaming

eternally related under the infinite umbrella of fantasy, horror and science fiction have always been well understood. Alien invasions, insane futures, or sinister uses of science are all tropes that make science fiction unusually terrifying. We have selected 13 excellent cases, varied in genres and eras, for you to have some terrifying science fiction time.

‘Alien the eighth passenger’

The Mother of the Lamb when it comes to the union of horror and science fiction remains a highly disturbing and enigmatic film. His sophisticated staging, the insaneness of his designs, the space he leaves for the viewer to fill in the gaps in his head, all of these are especially valuable ingredients when compared to the over-explained and fearful of leaving no one out of the box cinema that we see today. A terrifying and immortal gem.

‘A peaceful place’

The latest craze for post-apocalyptic movies has largely come from John Krasinsky’s directorial debut. He does not invent anything new, but he imposes an unusual closeness with the protagonist family, and establishes some simple but very strict narrative rules that he respects to the last consequences. Result: an unexpected success and a myriad of imitations, very few to match the model.

‘Underwater’

A A recent gem that takes us back to the eighty most video stores and movies like ‘Atmosphere Zero’, with a modest horror nonsense in the depths that quotes, and very well, ‘Alien’, ‘Deep Blue Sea’ and other gems of claustrophobic terror. Kristen Stewart is a perfect action heroine and in her final third she takes an unexpected turn that raises the film to the most vindicable of recent times.

‘Predator’

Total classic of the hyper-muscular action of the eighties, with touches of survivalist horror and one of the best monsters in cinema. This galactic remake of ‘The evil Zaroff’ has the concise staging of a John McTiernan in his prime, and the final stage, literally Schwarzenegger against The Wildest is pure legend. Be very careful about the sequels, all of them (including the most recent) very worthy continuations of the classic.

‘High Life’

Strange and suffocating space horror story, brimming with cloudy eroticism and extreme symbolism, and that is a very interesting and personal proposal from Claire Denis. Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche lead a cast delivered to the extreme in this story of survival in the space of a father and his daughter, whose proposal ranges from suspense in zero atmosphere to frankly repulsive neo-carnic visions.

‘The invisible man’

Interesting update of the Victorian science fiction myth created by HG Wells. His adaptations have always had a terrifying hue due to the macabre of his experiments and the madness of the protagonist, as already demonstrated by people like Paul Verhoeven in ‘The man without a shadow’. In this case, in one of the last pre-pandemic blockbusters, a feminist touch is added to the story and the great Elizabeth Moss takes center stage in a tense and suspenseful story.

‘Color Out of Space’

If there is a An iconic proper name when it comes to linking horror and science fiction is HP Lovecraft, creator of the concept of “cosmic horror” and not always lucky with his adaptations. Not the case with this recent vision of his Richard Stanley’s ‘The Color Fallen from the Sky’, with additions as welcome as alpacas, a perfect Nicolas Cage and a perfect communion between the latex of the eighties and the unspeakable horror of the author.

‘Videodrome’

Another author linked to the scariest side of science fiction is David Cronenberg, a space where he has composed symphonies of physical rot such as ‘The fly’ or ‘Chromosome’ 3. His masterpiece, however, is the great ‘Videodrome’, very vintage aesthetically but rabidly current thanks to his message of how screens and the audiovisual virus transform our bodies and our minds.

‘Infinity’

One of the great surprises of recent indie science fiction and the best film of the creative duo formed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, also protagonists of the film. They give life to two brothers who receive news of a cult of which they were part, and they decide to return to see what the new communication they have received from them is due to. Low intensity cosmic science fiction, with few resources but great ideas.

‘The son’

The two brothers of James Gunn (who here reserves production tasks) signed the script for this film that, without a doubt, the seal of the house: a reformulation of the story of Superman in the key of child horror. Continuous nods to the mythical DC character in a terrifying and subversive film that shows that alternative visions of superhero myths are still possible.

‘The fog’

Stephen King has never been seen too much in science-fiction-related fields, but here, in one of his clearest approaches to Lovecraft, it served as the seed for a tense film and that portrays how a community is shaken by a strange and aggressive element. Pessimistic and claustrophobic, the film draws on King’s portrayal of small towns in the North American Midwest as well as video games such as ‘Half-Life’. The result remains, years later, a little gem with an absolutely anthological final section.

‘The wellness cure’

One of the great critical and commercial failures of recent years, to such an extent that Gore Verbinski, despite having directed the North American version of ‘The Ring’ and the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ films, has not returned to direct after chaining two financial disasters such as this one and the fabulous ‘The Lone Ranger’. Here we go back to the classic Gothic of Universal, but with a paranoid and lysergic vision of the environments of the time, in a film that overflows with visions a la Guillermo del Toro and constant aesthetic discoveries.

‘The day of the Dead’

We could not leave without a small sample of classic zombie cinema, which mixes dystopias of science fiction (or at least, the apocalypse that precedes them) with the last great classic monster of terror. We are going to the third installment of the classic saga of the dead of Romero, a film that has been claimed a lot in recent years after decades considered inferior to the founding ‘The Night of the Living Dead’ and to the revolutionary ‘Zombi’, especially thanks to its antimilitarist message and the power of its gore sequences.