Horror in Space
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- DirectorArthur HiltonStarsSonny TuftsVictor JoryMarie WindsorAstronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
- DirectorHugo GrimaldiArthur C. PierceStarsWilliam LeslieDolores FaithPamela CurranA creeping fungus starts killing off astronauts on a trip back from the moon.
- DirectorRobert EmeneggerAllan SandlerStarsGordon De VolJacqueline RayJackson BostwickA team of men and women investigates the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.
- DirectorNorman J. WarrenStarsRobin ClarkeJennifer AshleyStephanie BeachamA crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.The start of the Alien cash-ins.
- DirectorBruce KimmelStarsCindy WilliamsBruce KimmelLeslie NielsenWhen the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On board, lifeform expands into an oozing person-eating monster which communicates primarily by means of a Vegas lounge act. The crew is gobbled up one after another until the two surviving crewmembers come up with a plan.
- DirectorLance LindsayStarsC. Juston CampbellFaye BoltJohn W. SmithCrew members aboard a space ship encounter an alien life form intent on killing them.
- DirectorRobert CollectorStarsCatherine Mary StewartMichael PraedJohn StandingProfessor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.
- DirectorRobert DykeStarsWalter KoenigBruce CampbellLeigh LombardiNASA finds remains of an ancient humanoid race on the Moon that left behind deadly robots.Discovery of ancient astronauts on the Moon triggers all sorts of unpleasantness, some of it back on Earth but it makes it into this category.
- DirectorHarry Bromley DavenportStarsJan-Michael VincentPaul KosloTara BuckmanMilitary scientists discover an alternate dimension and, subsequently, aliens with an appetite for human flesh.It is another hostile dimension but the effect is the same, although the film is awful and connected in name only to the earlier film (which I enjoy).
- DirectorFred GalloStarsMarc SingerLaura Mae TateBryan CranstonA deadly virus attacks the crew of a Saturn space station.
- DirectorSteve LatshawStarsJoe EstevezBlake PickettLaurie ShermanOn its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The shuttle crashes into a swampy region of central Florida, creating a situation which threatens contagion and/or death to all who encounter the shuttle or its mutated pilot.For the opening scenes.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsJack WagnerJack ColemanCraig WassonAfter an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsWarwick DavisBrent JasmerJessica CollinsOur deadly leprechaun is in space to woo a beautiful princess who is impressed with his gold and desires to separate him from it.
- DirectorMark HaberStarsJason LondonMissy CriderSimon WestawayIn a time when interplanetary shipping is routine, poor judgment is a fatal error. The crew of the Solar System Shipping shipping vessel number 17 runs in shifts. When the second shift awakens from hyper-sleep almost ten months after their scheduled time, they find the ship badly damaged, off course, and missing the first shift. What's more, it's discovered the first shift killed each other. As the plot unfolds, something truly evil is discovered on-board - humans.
- DirectorDavid TwohyStarsRadha MitchellCole HauserVin DieselA transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.
- DirectorWalter HillFrancis Ford CoppolaJack SholderStarsJames SpaderPeter FacinelliRobin TunneyA deep space rescue and recovery spaceship with a crew of 6 receives a distress call from a mining operation 3432 light years away. A rescue operation via dimension jump is made. Bad idea.
- DirectorAntony HoffmanStarsVal KilmerCarrie-Anne MossTom SizemoreAstronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
- DirectorJon McBrideJohn PoloniaMark PoloniaStarsJon McBrideRobert ThomasJoette KrisiewiczFrom beyond the galaxy comes a terror heading toward earth, destroying everything in its path: a rogue planetoid from the outer reaches of the cosmos itself. After a failed attempt by the Omega 1 to eliminate the mysterious space entity, the crew of the Omega 2 blast off as the last hope for mankind. As minutes and seconds tick away, the motley crew discovers the terrible secret inside the planetoid. They're the only ones keeping the human race from total extinction! Can the world be saved ?!
- DirectorMike ConwayStarsTim DaleyJason HallSheila Conway12 astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony, on a newly discovered planet. They awake from their frozen 15 year sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and that they are trapped in their cryotubes. To make matters worse, a hairy beast breaks in and begins devouring them, one by one...
- DirectorPhil TippettStarsBilly BrownRichard BurgiKelly CarlsonIn 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.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsCasper Van DienErika EleniakCoolioCount Dracula terrorizes the crew of a spaceship.
- DirectorAndrzej BartkowiakStarsKarl UrbanRosamund PikeDwayne JohnsonSpace Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
- DirectorMark StirtonStarsMike MitchellPatrick WightScott IronsideThe Planet concerns a group of shipwrecked mercenaries and their struggle for survival on an alien world. A world where death is only the beginning.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyRose ByrneChris EvansA team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
- DirectorAndrew WildStarsSean Patrick FlaneryReagan PasternakJoel KellerA team of scientists explore a new planet and find much more than expected.
- DirectorBrad SykesStarsSteve RailsbackAlexis ZibolisNoelle PerrisThe year: 2241. The transport vessel PANDORA hurtles through space, bringing an alien energy source known as "Thanatos" to fuel-starved planet Earth.
- DirectorEdward NeumeierStarsCasper Van DienJolene BlalockStephen HoganJohnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.
- DirectorMarc CaroStarsLambert WilsonLinh-Dan PhamDominique PinonA prisoner is brought to psychiatric detention space station orbiting a prison planet. He was exposed to aliens and gained healing power. A new doctor wants to experiment on the 7 prisoners/patients.
- DirectorChance ShirleyStarsCary BordersAlison BrittDavid BrownA motley assortment of men and women live and work together on a base on Mars for the Interplanetary Corporation. Things are pretty dull and unexciting until one day the crew find themselves under attack not only by a lethal group of strangers, but also from a vicious reptilian humanoid alien beast.
- DirectorChuck PattonCurt GedaVinton HeuckStarsNika FuttermanKeith SzarabajkaJim CummingsA team of miners at an outpost in deep space unearth an ancient alien artefact. After the relic is brought aboard their spaceship, the USG Ishimura, for scientific study, an alien species begins to infect the members of the ship.Animated film based on the video game, not the movie of the same name listed above.
Although you get a quite a few space vampires on this list, there is a gap for zombies in space which this (and its sequel) help fill. However, we need more. - DirectorDuncan JonesStarsSam RockwellKevin SpaceyDominique McElligottAstronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
- DirectorIvan EnglerRalph EtterStarsAnna Katharina SchwabrohMartin RapoldRegula GrauwillerDr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.
- DirectorSheldon WilsonStarsGina HoldenJana PallaskeLance HenriksenA group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost, but more important, they discover that the threat of the screamers has become even more insidious, now that they're able to morph into human form.
- DirectorPeter BergStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauKerry BishéJoy BryantSpaceship crew members start dying because of an unknown defect in a virtual-reality device.
- DirectorMat KingStarsConnor TrinneerJames KysonToni TrucksWhen ordered to retrieve a crate from a distant planet, two mercenaries learn that they must in fact smuggle a woman off world. They then crash-land on a planet packed with vicious giant alien bugs.
- DirectorNimród AntalStarsAdrien BrodyLaurence FishburneTopher GraceA group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race.
- DirectorMike DisaStarsChristopher JudgeRicardo ChaviraGwendoline YeoFour survivors aboard the spaceship USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue the members of the USG Ishimura, try to recall the horrific events that wiped out their crew.
- DirectorAndrew BellwareStarsRobin KurtzWalter BarnesJoe BeuerleinTrapped on a space station orbiting Earth, a small army of human survivors battle the Undead in order to prevent the destruction of the Earth.
- DirectorShinji AramakiSteven FosterStarsLuci ChristianDavid MatrangaJustin DoranA black op has gone terribly wrong. Now, Captain Carmen Ibanez and a hardcore trooper famed as Major Henry "Hero" Varro must lead a team of battle-weary troopers to find the missing ship and discover what went wrong.
- DirectorDavid TwohyStarsVin DieselKarl UrbanKatee SackhoffLeft for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.Almost a semi-remake of Pitch Black.
- DirectorRoger ChristianStarsChristian SlaterAmy MatysioMichael TherriaultFour astronauts working at a lunar base suffer a meteor strike that brings an infection that leads to paranoia, fear and death.
- DirectorLauren LamarrStarsRyan HendrickJennifer ByrneNatalie ClarkEpic 2 part fan film production that crosses Doctor Who with the Alien Saga. The Doctor and his Companion are summoned aboard the HMS Archer, a military research vessel in deep space, trapped by an unknown and unstoppable alien force.Doctor Who fan film.
- DirectorDarren ScalesStarsJonny BlackVictoria HopkinsVin HawkeA salvage vessel arrives at a spaceship graveyard, but its crew soon discover that some things on this Drift are still alive - and hungry.
- DirectorOklahoma WardStarsNicole AlonsoTorey ByrneTommy BallAn elite security team assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever shrinking tunnel itself.
- DirectorShane AbbessStarsDaniel MacPhersonGrace HuangLuke HemsworthAn elite 'search and rescue' team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak.
- DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsIan ZieringTara ReidCassandra ScerboA monstrous tornado unleashes ravenous sharks from Washington, D.C., all the way down to Orlando, Florida.The action transitions to space for the finale.
Possibly the best of the Sharknado films, if that is qunatifiable, and I suspect marks the point of Peak Sharknado. - DirectorRobert DykeStarsSarah ButlerDamon DayoubCharles ShaughnessyA long forgotten ancient spacecraft discovered on Earth. Investigations carried out by Scout transport her to the moon whereupon she meets the impressive machines preserving the wisdom of that long lost civilization.The long-awaited Moontrap sequel.
- DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsIan ZieringTara ReidMasiela LushaFin, his family and the cosmos have been blissfully sharknado-free in the five years since the most recent attack, but now sharks and tornadoes are being whipped up in unexpected ways and places.In the opening scenes we see them fighting sharks in space and on the Moon. As well continuing the story from the end of the last movie, it might be a wink to the Rule of Four mentioned above or they were just throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks (after watching the it, I'm leaning towards the latter, but thought it worth a mention).
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsMichael FassbenderKatherine WaterstonBilly CrudupThe crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
- DirectorDennis CabellaJavier ChillonTodd CoberyStarsGabriele AngieriBela B.Olli BanjoTrapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the unknown and other-worldly, equally wonderful and terrifying. Visit the GALAXY OF HORRORS, if you dare! Curated from Rue Morgue & Unstable Ground's Little Terrors Festival.
- DirectorOliver TietgenStarsMichael BerrymanBianca BradeyKim SønderholmViolent Starr is a female space pirate, that ascends to be a hero through an artifact of a legendary warrior. She fights against the Godmichael and his evil minions swarming out to eliminate creatures and races that they deem "unworthy".
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsKing BaggotJane GailMatt SnyderDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsErich von StroheimHarriet RussellDwight FryeA crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so that he can bury them alive.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBoris KarloffRicardo CortezEdmund GwennAfter hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsBoris KarloffAnna LeeJohn LoderDr. Laurience, a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with transferring minds, becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws his support.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsBoris KarloffEvelyn KeyesBruce BennettA physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsBoris KarloffAnne RevereAmanda DuffScientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsBela LugosiJohn CarradineGeorge ZuccoA scientist seeks to transplant a brain into the body of a thawed caveman in order to get it to do his bidding.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsNils AstherHelen WalkerReinhold SchünzelA scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsLouis HaywardJody LawranceAlexander KnoxEdward Jekyll, ignorant of how his father had brought forth death and destruction with his experiments, is pursuing a chemist career despite the fact that he has been discharged from school or his unorthodox experimentations. When the time comes for his father's estate, which had been put in trust, Edward first learns of his father's actions and rather than ignore the matter, sets out to prove that human personality can be changed by certain chemical stimulations. But he hasn't reckoned on Dr. Curtis Lanyon, a prominent doctor and close friend of the family. Lanyon wants to get his hands on the estate and resorts to murder and frame-ups to make Edward appear to be as insane as his father.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsBrian DonlevyGeorge BakerCarole GrayMotorist Martin Delambre attempts to keep evidence of his family's bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own.
- DirectorStephen WeeksStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingMike RavenIn the Nineteenth Century, in London, the psychologist Charles Marlowe researches a new drug capable to release inhibitions and uses his patients as guinea pigs. He discusses the principles of Freud with his friend Dr. Lanyon and decides to experiment his drug in himself. He becomes the ugly and evil Edward Blake and his friend and lawyer Frederik Utterson believes Blake is another person that might be blackmailing Charles. Meanwhile Charles loses control of his transformation.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsRalph BatesMartine BeswickGerald SimA Victorian scientist tests a serum that transforms him into a sensuous murderess.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingDiana DorsThree rich trustees are murdered - appearing as suicides. When a bus filled with orphans and three other rich trustees has an "accident," Colonel Bingham investigates.