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Plot Summary:
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: space horror, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, space horror, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, dark, slasher
Similar in 82%
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Plot Summary:
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, scary, serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, campy
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Space Probe Taurus (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2000 the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world. Written by Jeremy Lunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
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The X from Outer Space (1967)
Plot Summary:
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, retro, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 87%
The Creeping Terror (1964)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat people.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: cult classic, retro, suspense, detective, grindhouse, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious
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Dead Space (1991)
Plot Summary:
Phaebon had been thought to be a safe and controlled research facility until a distress signal calls for Commander Kreiger and his robot Tinpan. Together, they try to save the planet from a spreading virus and an odd and growing cocoon. Remake of "Forbidden World" (1982).
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, lovecraft, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, space horror, cult film
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Shadowzone (1990)
Plot Summary:
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, bizarre, cult film
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Crash and Burn (1990)
Plot Summary:
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of th.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mecha, cult film
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Nightbeast (1982)
Plot Summary:
An alien crash lands and goes on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, slasher, cult horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Dark Universe (1993)
Plot Summary:
On 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.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, space horror, scary, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Plot Summary:
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, offbeat, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, black and white, scary, serious
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Ejecta (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, space horror, independent film
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Stranded (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. He offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, space horror, suspense, slasher
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Queen of Blood (1966)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship is sent to Mars after a alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, bleak, serious, space horror, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror
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The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, apocalyptic, serious, disaster movie
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Alien Apocalypse (2005)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: intense, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, suspense, futuristic, perverse, exciting, thought provoking, breathtaking
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Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Plot Summary:
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, space horror, independent film, psychotronic, sexy, slasher, surreal
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Invaders from Mars (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, scary, slasher, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, serious
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Deep Space (1988)
Plot Summary:
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature. Co-starring Julie Newmar as a powerful psychic, this low-rent horror flick finds the police force continually confounded by the organism's evolving physical features.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic, lovecraft, independent film, scary, exciting, slasher
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Horror Planet (1981)
Plot Summary:
A 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.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, space horror, scary, psychotronic, erotic, retro, mystic, rough, serious, suspenseful
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic, funny, bloody, grindhouse, independent film
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Species III (2004)
Plot Summary:
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual, scary, suspense, grindhouse, ridiculous
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Forbidden World (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, space horror, scary, grindhouse, erotic, disturbing, medical horror, cult classic, lovecraft
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Creature (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, cult horror, classic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, spooky, cult film
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Parasite (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, natural horror, apocalyptic
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The Deadly Spawn (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, grindhouse, cult horror, classic horror, psychotronic, bloody, horror comedy, perverse, cult classic
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Supernova (2000)
Plot Summary:
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 body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, exciting, captivating, entertaining, dark, cyber, disgusting
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Virus (1999)
Plot Summary:
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, suspense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, tech noir, nautical, slasher horror
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Alien (1979)
Plot Summary:
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 attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 931000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast, frightening, captivating, creepy, visually stunning, atmospheric