10 Scariest Sci-Fi Movies of All Time, Ranked

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From The Invisible Man (2020) to Threads, these are the 10 scariest sci-fi movies of all time.

The horror genre is perhaps the easiest one to define. If a movie tries to scare its audience by depicting dangerous situations where characters are constantly being threatened, then it's almost certainly a work of horror.

9 'Signs' Even if it's not quite one of 2002's very best movies, Signs is still largely successful as a slow-burn combination of horror, mystery, and science-fiction. It's one of M. Night Shyamalan's strongest filmmaking efforts, and follows a family living on a farm, and the way they react to the news that alien invaders may be coming to Earth.

Reflecting a real-life disaster in surprisingly visceral detail, Shin Godzilla works as both an intense disaster film and a terrifying giant monster movie. Some social satire and dark humor prevent Shin Godzilla from being 100% horrifying all the way through, but it's still among the scariest and darkest monster movies of all time.

With this film, Peele brought something new to the idea of an alien invasion movie, thanks to a unique setting, a very restrained yet effective pace, and a truly imaginative take on alien lifeforms. It's a spectacular and persistently unnerving film, and has a great deal to say about humanity's relationship with other forms of life, and some biting commentary on the nature of fame and exploitation.

4 'Alien' As it's one of the very best movies from the entire 1970s, it's not too big a claim to call Alien one of the greatest blends of horror and sci-fi in cinema history. It's remained compelling and likely to get the heart racing more than 40 years on from release, with a simple story that's perfectly executed on screen.

2 'The Thing' The Thing is easily one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made, and was arguably too scary for audiences in 1982, leading to it only being appreciated in the years after it was released. Like many great horror/sci-fi movies, it has a simple premise, with the story here following a group of men at a research facility who find themselves being hunted by a dangerous - not to mention shape-shifting - alien creature.

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