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The Scariest Movies Set In Space, Ranked
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- 1David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Walter Hill
Alien follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo as they are awakened from cryogenic sleep by a distress call halfway through their interstellar journey. The crew finds a nest of eggs in an alien vessel, soon discovering that these are hostile extraterrestrial lifeform. As the extraterrestrial organism stalks and kills each human one by one, this classic thriller is full of suspense and scares as it keeps viewers on the edge of their seats..
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- 2Gale Anne Hurd
In the hotly-anticipated sequel to Alien, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is rescued by a deep space marine team. As they search LV-426, they discover only one survivor, a young girl named Newt (Carrie Henn). Soon, they must fight off the hundreds of xenomorph creatures that have boarded the ship. The suspenseful and thrilling plot keeps viewers on their toes as they are taken on a journey to uncover the secrets of the dangerous aliens who have invaded the colony..
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- 3Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Jeremy Bolt
This sci-fi follows the crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a lost spacecraft, the Event Horizon, that has suddenly reappeared after vanishing seven years ago. As they explore the seemingly-abandoned vessel, they encounter supernatural forces and unimaginable horrors from beyond our universe. This movie features intense action sequences and terrifying visuals, making it one of the scariest movies ever made set in space.
- 4Tom Engelman
Set in the future, on a distant unexplored planet, Pitch Black follows an escaped convict (Vin Diesel) and his crew of survivors as they battle against vicious creatures that are only visible in total darkness prolonged by an eclipse. This suspenseful thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat with its intense action sequences, special effects, and relentless monsters. It's one of those rare films that can be both scary and entertaining at the same time - perfect for sci-fi fans who love a good scare.
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- 5Ridley Scott, David Giler, Walter Hill
In Ridley Scott's Prometheus, an archaeologist (Noomi Rapace) and a scientist (Elizabeth Shaw) venture to the darkest parts of the universe on a mission to find the origin of mankind. While they hope to find benevolent beings that will validate their religious beliefs, Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) aims to debunk their spiritual ideas. While they travel to an alien world to search for answers, they encounter unspeakable and unimaginable horrors.
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- 6David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Bonnie Curtis
Life (2017) follows the crew of the International Space Station (Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson) as they discover the first proof of alien life on Mars. The extraterrestrial being soon begins to evolve, rapidly displaying intelligence and mortal danger. As the crew tries to contain it, they realize that their only hope might be to destroy it before it can spread across Earth.
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- 7Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer
When the astronaut crew of a spacecraft wake up from cryosleep with no memory of their mission or how to operate their craft, they soon discover that they are not alone on board. As Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Bower (Ben Foster) explore their seemingly abandoned ship, suspenseful moments build as they realize they are not alone. With its claustrophobic setting and intense scenes, Pandorum will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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- 8Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the sole survivor when she crash-lands on the bleak Fiorina 161, a remote maximum security prison planet inhabited by mostly male criminals. She struggles to survive attacks by the xenomorph alien that has unintentionally been set loose among them, hunting the prisoners and guards. With no weapons, Ripley must lead the inmates into battle against the terrifying creature.
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- 9Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David GilerTwo hundred years have passed since Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) died on Fiorina 161. Aboard the medical research vessel USM Auriga, a team of scientists clone Ripley from her extracted DNA and removes the alien Queen embryo which was growing inside her at the time of her death.More Alien: Resurrection
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- 10Stanley KubrickIn Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and his crew embark on a mysterious journey to Jupiter, guided by their ship's artificially intelligent computer, HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain). This epic science fiction masterpiece, which won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, explores themes of evolution, technology, artificial intelligence and the unknown. The movie is renowned for its realistic depiction of space travel and innovative special effects, providing a visually stunning cinematic experience that captivated audiences worldwide.
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- 11Vin Diesel, Ted FieldLeft for dead on a sun-scorched planet, fugitive Riddick (Vin Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he has yet encountered. His only hope for escape is to activate an emergency beacon, but that brings with it a different problem: mercenaries. The first ship carries an especially violent and lethal group; the second is led by a man from Riddick's past. With time running out, Riddick realizes that neither group will leave without his head as trophy.More Riddick
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- 12Andrew MacdonaldIn the sci-fi thriller Sunshine, physicist Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy) and his diverse team of astronauts embark on a daring mission to reignite the dying sun. Set in 2057, this gripping narrative follows their perilous journey aboard spaceship Icarus II. Driven by an urgent need to save Earth from an eternal winter, the crew, including the stoic Mace (Chris Evans), faces unimaginable challenges that test their resolve and unity. Directed by Danny Boyle, the film is a compelling exploration of survival and sacrifice against a backdrop of cosmic terror.More Sunshine
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- 13Yoram Globus, Menahem GolanWhen a space mission involving American and British astronauts encounters an alien craft, the humanoids within are brought aboard the shuttle. Back on Earth, one of the extraterrestrials, who appears to be a gorgeous woman (Mathilda May), proceeds to suck the life force out of various Londoners, turning the town into a city of roaming half-dead people. When Tom Carlsen (Steve Railsback), a surviving astronaut, realizes what is happening, he sets out to stop the ruthless alien presence.More Lifeforce
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- 14Chuck Beaver, Joe Goyette, Cate LatchfordIn this animated film, miners laboring at an outpost in deep space unearth a bizarre alien artifact. After Capt. Matthius (Jim Cummings) -- of the orbiting USG Ishimura -- dispatches a team to bring the artifact on board for scientific study, a series of horrifying and unexplainable deaths befall members of his crew. In an atmosphere of growing paranoia, security head Alissa Vincent (Nika Futterman) struggles to determine the cause of the mysterious rash of violence spreading through the ship.
- 15Nicholas NayfackIn this sci-fi classic, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier. When Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew arrive, they discover only two people: Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), who was born on the remote planet. Soon, Adams begins to uncover the mystery of what happened on Altair IV, and why Morbius and Altaira are the sole survivors.More Forbidden Planet
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- 16Tom Berry, Franco BattistaCmdr. Joe Hendricksson (Peter Weller) and new recruit Ace Jefferson (Andy Lauer) set out across the surface of Sirius 6B, where they hope to settle a violent labor dispute at a remote mining outpost. After going too far to turn back, they find the desert riddled with deadly Autonomous Mobile Swords, or "Screamers." Created to protect the mines, these burrowing weapons have learned to replicate themselves. To make matters worse, recent generations of Screamers can assume humanoid form.More Screamers
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Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Michael SchaeferIn the heart-pounding, sci-fi thriller Alien: Covenant, a crew of colonists, aboard the spaceship Covenant, journey to an uncharted paradise. Michael Fassbender shines in dual roles as synthetic androids Walter and David, while Katherine Waterston offers a compelling performance as Daniels. Their destination, initially promising, soon reveals itself as a dark, dangerous world inhabited by hostile creatures. As the crew attempts survival against unimaginable threats, they're forced to confront the terrifying reality - are they the hunters or the hunted? This Ridley Scott-directed sequel to Prometheus continues exploring themes of creation and extinction in his iconic Alien franchise.More Alien: Covenant- #74 of 178 onThe Best Alien Movies Of All Time, Ranked
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- 18Sandy KingJohn Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is a 2001 American science fiction action horror film composed, written, and directed by John Carpenter. The film stars Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, and Joanna Cassidy.
- 19Bruce Berman, Mark Canton, Jorge SaraleguiMission Commander Kate Bowman is the pilot and commander of the most important mission of the 21st century: saving the human race. It's 2050, earth is dying, and colonizing Mars is the only alternative to obliteration. Bowman and her crew have made this journey to investigate what went wrong with the malfunctioning Mars Terraforming Project, and to repair it. But what happens when they get there is far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed.
- 20Stuart Fenegan, Trudie StylerMoon is a captivating science fiction drama, the directorial debut of Duncan Jones. The film features Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), stationed alone on a lunar base for a three-year stint. As his tenure nears its end, he starts to grapple with disturbing experiences, questioning his reality. GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey), an AI assistant, is his only companion during this ordeal. A gripping exploration of isolation and identity, Moon won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2010. It's a cerebral journey that challenges viewers without relying on flashy special effects.More Moon
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- 21Timur Bekmambetov, Michele WolkoffApollo 17 was the last U.S.-sponsored lunar voyage -- or was it? Hours of found footage, classified for decades, point to a subsequent moon mission -- Apollo 18 -- that ended very badly. Astronauts John Grey (Ryan Robbins), Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen) and Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie), on a mission to install radar scanners, discover a Soviet space capsule nearby. The men also discover a dead cosmonaut, and unfortunately for them, learn how he died.
- 22Michael Kuhn, Andrea CornwellAstronauts (Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai) on Mars contend with a microbe that turns those it infects into zombielike killers.
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Europa Report
Ben BrowningWhen unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean and single-celled life exists on one of Jupiter's moons, six astronauts embark on an ill-fated exploratory mission. - 24
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Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a 1987 science-fiction horror film based on the novella by George R.R. Martin, directed by Robert Collector. - 26Nancy Rae StoneThree generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell. In 18th-century France, Paul L'Merchant (Bruce Ramsay) works as a toymaker until he's coerced into creating a box that serves as a portal between hell and Earth. The box summons demonic Angelique (Valentina Vargas) and Pinhead (Doug Bradley), who -- 200 years later -- hunt down John Merchant (Bruce Ramsay). Then, centuries later, Phillip Merchant (also Ramsay) prepares for a final confrontation.
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- 27Stanley DonenA madman (Harvey Keitel) and his shiny robot chase a May-December couple (Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas) doing food research on Saturn's third moon.
- 28Roger CormanGalaxy of Terror is a 1981 science fiction/horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Bruce D. Clark. It stars Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston and Taaffe O'Connell. Produced by New World Pictures and distributed by United Artists, the film has gained a cult following of its own since the time of its release.More Galaxy of Terror
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- 29Roger Corman, George Edwards, Samuel Z. ArkoffQueen of Blood is a 1966 horror-science fiction film released by American International Pictures. The director, Curtis Harrington, crafted this B-movie with footage from the Soviet films Mechte Navstrechu and Nebo Zovyot. It was released as part of a double bill with the AIP film Blood Bath. The film features John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith and Dennis Hopper.
- 30Fulvio LucisanoPlanet of the Vampires is a 1965 Italian/Spanish science fiction horror film directed by Mario Bava. The film stars Barry Sullivan and Norma Bengell. The screenplay, by Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua, Callisto Cosulich, Antonio Roman and Rafael J. Salvia, was based on an Italian-language science fiction short story, Renato Pestriniero's "One Night of 21 Hours". The story follows the horrific experiences of the crew members of two giant spaceships that have crash landed on a forbidding, unexplored planet. The disembodied inhabitants of the world possess the bodies of the crew who died during the crash, and use the animated corpses to stalk and kill the remaining survivors. The film was co-produced by American International Pictures and Italian International Film, with some financing provided by Spain's Castilla Cooperativa Cinematográfica. Ib Melchior and Louis M. Heyward are credited with the script for the AIP English-language release version. Years after its release, some critics suggested that the film's narrative details and visual design appeared to have been a major influence on Ridley Scott's Alien.
- 31Michael GruskoffAfter the end of all botanical life on Earth, ecologist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) maintains a greenhouse on a space station in order to preserve various plants for future generations. Assisted by three robots and a small human crew, Lowell rebels when he is ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions. Lowell and his robots are forced to do anything necessary to keep their invaluable greenery alive.
- 32Robert E. KentIt's the future -- 1973 -- and a rescue team is sent to fetch Col. Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson), the lone survivor of the first manned flight to Mars. Though he's slated for the firing squad after ostensibly murdering his entire crew, he insists that a Martian monster is to blame for the deaths. Cmdr. Van Heusen (Kim Spalding) and the team doubt Carruthers' claims, until more mysterious killings occur. To their horror, they realize the bloodthirsty beast is on board the ship with them.
- 33John Wells, Lorenzo di BonaventuraA team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge (The Rock), 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 purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm (Rosamund Pike), who is related to team member Reaper (Karl Urban), informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.More Doom
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- 34Roger CormanForbidden World, originally titled Mutant, is a 1982 American cult classic science fiction/horror film. The screenplay was written by Tim Curnen, from a screenstory by R.J. Robertson and Jim Wynorski. It was co-edited and directed by Allan Holzman, who had edited Battle Beyond the Stars two years earlier. The cast includes Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles, Fox Harris, Raymond Oliver, Scott Paulin, Michael Bowen, and Don Olivera. The film received three nominations for the 1983 Saturn Awards: Best Low Budget Film, Best Make-up and Best Special Effects. It was generally panned by critics as a cheap, exploitive imitation of the movie Alien, with sex, nudity, uneven editing, cheap special effects, and an audio track that some found unpleasant. It has, however, attained a certain cult status among fans of grungy, cheap, sleazy science fiction. It is frequently paired with and compared to the previous year's Corman-produced Alien rip-off Galaxy of Terror, with which Forbidden World shares some of the same sets. The movie also makes use of footage recycled from the 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars, which was also produced by Corman.
- The Deadly Spawn is a 1983 science fiction horror film directed by Douglas McKeown and starring Charles George Hildebrandt. In some territories, the film's title was changed to Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn or The Return of the Alien's Deadly Spawn in an attempt to cash in on the worldwide success of Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. It follows the story of a crash-landed alien that finds refuge in the basement of a house and grows to monstrous proportions, eating those unlucky enough to venture down. A handful of teenagers try to survive the onslaught of the creature and its young.More The Deadly Spawn
- 36Sidney W. Pink, Norman MaurerChief Warrant Officer Sam Jacobs (Jack Kruschen), Dr. Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden), Professor Theodore Gettell (Les Tremayne) and Col. Tom O'Bannion (Gerald Mohr) are astronauts aboard the spaceship MR-1, the first mission to Mars. Shortly after their rocket reaches the mysterious red planet, the band of brave space explorers discovers monstrous yet highly intelligent alien life forms, which first attack, then deliver a haunting word of warning intended for all mankind.
- 37Noel CunninghamThe year is 2455. The Place is Old Earth. Once the shimmering blue jewel of the galaxy, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled. Not to live, but to research the ancient rusting artifacts of the bygone civilizations that caused this environmental disaster. And little does the most recent landing party of intrepid young explorers realize the fate that awaits them.More Jason X
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- 38John CarpenterA satiric look at the problems experienced by a crew of bumbling astronauts on a mission to destroy rogue planets.
- 39Ash R. Shah, Daniel Chuba, Jamie DixonSupernova is a science fiction thriller that chronicles the high-stakes adventures of a deep space hospital ship and its six member crew. When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a distant galaxy, the crew soon finds itself in danger from the mysterious young man they rescue, the alien artifact he smuggled aboard and the gravitational pull of a giant star about to go supernova -- the most massive explosion in the universe.
- 40Viacheslav TarasovSolaris is a 1972 Russian science fiction art film adaptation of Polish author Stanisław Lem's novel Solaris. The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into separate emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin travels to the Solaris space station to evaluate the situation only to encounter the same mysterious phenomena as the others. The original science fiction novel is about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between humans and other species. Tarkovsky's adaptation is a “drama of grief and partial recovery” concentrated upon the thoughts and the consciences of the cosmonaut scientists studying Solaris' mysterious ocean. In loyalty to the novel's complex and slow-paced narrative, Tarkovsky wanted to bring a new emotional and intellectual depth to the genre, viewing most of western science fiction as shallow. The ideas which Tarkovsky tried to express in this film are further developed in Stalker.More Solaris
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- 41John Cameron, Rae Sanchini, Jon LandauBased on the classic science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, "Solaris" centers on a psychologist (George Clooney) sent to investigate unexplained behavior of key scientists on a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. Once aboard he, too, falls victim to this unique world's mysteries -- as well as to an erotic obsession with someone he thought he had left behind.More Solaris
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- 42Creature - Die dunkle Macht der Finsternis ist ein Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 1985. Regie führte William Malone.
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- 44Richard GordonInseminoid is a British science-fiction horror film released in 1981. Director Norman J. Warren's eighth film, the plot of Inseminoid concerns a group of future scientists excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet. When a monstrous alien creature attacks and inseminates one of the women in the team, chaos ensues as the unbalanced victim, possessing unnatural strength, murders her colleagues one after another in a psychotic bid to protect her unborn twin hybrid offspring. It stars Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke, and Stephanie Beacham. Victoria Tennant makes an early film appearance. Filmed between May and June 1980, Inseminoid is based on a script written by Nick and Gloria Maley, a couple who had contributed to the special effects of Warren's films starting with Satan's Slave. A low budget of £1 million, half of which was contributed by the Hong Kong Shaw Brothers, funded location filming in both the Chislehurst Caves in Kent and on the island of Gozo in Malta. Composer John Scott perfected the electronic score of Inseminoid in multiple hours-long studio sessions following the completion of shooting.More Inseminoid
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- 45Dan Balgoyen, Garrick Dion, Scott GlassgoldA man and his teenage daughter encounter nonstop danger while searching for valuable gems on an alien moon.More Prospect
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- Contamination (a.k.a. Alien Contamination, Toxic Spawn or Larvae) is a 1980 science fiction-horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi. A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
- A giant spaceship carrying colonists to a new planet runs into unexpected troubles on its journey, ranging from encounters with abandoned alien craft to malfunctioning onboard computers and tensions among its crew and passengers. A 15 year voyage that tests severely the morale of the crew and passengers. Edited and dubbed into English for the USA in 1964 (as was common for many Eastern European/Soviet Science Fiction films of the 1960s).Some credit this film as a partial influence on the creation of Star Trek tv series made a few years later (more likely, both this film and the Star Trek show were heavily influenced by Forbidden Planet).
- 48William Ross, Ivan Reiner, Walter H. ManleyThe Green Slime is a 1968 science-fiction film produced by MGM in the United States and shot in Japan at the studios of Toei Company by director Kinji Fukasaku. The film was spearheaded by Ivan Reiner and Walter Manley, the same creative team who produced similar Italian outings like Wild, Wild Planet.
- After killing all the remaining vicious Critter aliens in "Critters 3," bounty hunter Charlie McFadden (Don Keith Opper) is shot into space in a capsule with the last two Critter eggs. In the year 2045, a spaceship commanded by Capt. Rick (Anders Hove) retrieves the pod and opens it at a defunct space station, which revives Charlie. But while Rick waits for the Terracorps corporation to arrive and take the eggs, they hatch, placing Charlie and the whole crew in mortal danger.More Critters 4
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- 50Frank Hübner, Brad Krevoy, David WichtSpacefarers (Casper Van Dien, Erika Eleniak, Coolio) encounter bloodthirsty vampires aboard a derelict vessel.
- 51Mike ElliottDead Space is a 1991 science-fiction film involving the crew members of a space station orbiting Saturn when they face a killer virus. In 2010 Shout! Factory released the film on DVD, packaged as a double feature with The Terror Within as part of the Roger Corman Cult Classics collection.
- 52Mark AminLeprechaun 4: In Space is a 1997 direct-to-video horror comedy/science fiction film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It is the fourth film in the Leprechaun series.
- 53Eric WosterSpace-station crew members (C. Jutson Campbell, Faye Bolt, Taylor Kingsley) escape from an explosion, with a deadly creature from Mars.
- 54Ogden GavanskiA group of UAC Marines responds to a distress call from a top-secret scientific base on Phobos, a Martian moon, only to discover it's been overrun by demons.
- 55Aniara is a 2019 Swedish science fiction film directed by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja. One of many spaceships carrying passengers from Earth to Mars is knocked off course by an asteroid, leaving the passengers stranded in the universe.
- The Dark Side of the Moon is a 1990 direct-to-video science fiction/horror film. It was directed by D. J. Webster from the screenplay by brothers Chad and Carey Hayes.
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Alien Cargo
Alien Cargo is a 1999 science fiction film starring Jason London, Missy Crider, Elizabeth Alexander and Alan Dale, as the crew of a space-cargo transport ship, which is attacked by an unknown alien life form that manipulates all organic life into releasing their inner evil psyche. - 58
GA-GA: Glory to the Heroes
GA-GA: Glory to the Heroes is a 1986 horror science fiction film written and directed by Piotr Szulkin. - 59Tomoyuki Tanaka, Edward L. AlpersonGorath, released in Japan as Calamity Star Gorath, is a Japanese science fiction tokusatsu film produced by Toho in 1962. The story for Gorath was by Jojiro Okami.
- 60Oliver Dungey, Laurence Clerc, Olivier Thery-LapineyMonte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. They must now rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
