The 11 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies on Disney+ (July 2026)

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The Abyss (1989)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 76% Letterboxd 3.7 2h 20m

Directed by James Cameron

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Abyss excels through claustrophobic deep-sea dread and otherworldly entities that embody the unknown lurking beneath technological frontiers.

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

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Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension poster

Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 18m

Directed by Robert Hughes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a family adventure comedy with dimension-hopping and cartoon villainy.

Phineas and Ferb get trapped in an alternate dimension where the evil Doofenshmirtz rules the tri-state area. They must find a way back home with the help of their pet platypus named Perry, who they discover is a secret agent.

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Flight of the Navigator (1986)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 85% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 30m

Directed by Randal Kleiser

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFlight of the Navigator captures temporal horror's core: eight lost years and alien abduction through a child's awakening.

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

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Lilo & Stitch (2025)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 72% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 48m

Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a comedic coming-of-age story about alien friendship and family healing.

The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.

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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 76% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 33m

Directed by Joe Johnston

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a lighthearted adventure about microscopic survival without existential dread or genuine peril.

The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 37m

Directed by John Hough

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a children's fantasy about telekinetic orphans and their rescue arc.

Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

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The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 67% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 44m

Directed by Norman Tokar

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a whimsical family film treating alien visitors and government intrigue as comedy.

A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.

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Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 42% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 38m

Directed by Andy Fickman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a family action-adventure blending taxi noir with teen mutant escapism.

A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

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Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)

IMDb 5.7 Letterboxd 2.6 1h 25m

Directed by Steve Boyum

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a teen sitcom about an alien stepsister with comedic culture-clash mishaps.

Megan's world is turned upside down when she hears her calm life with her little brother and single mum is about to change. She hears she's soon to have a stepfather and a stepsister. Megan thinks they're a bit weird and is determined to stop the wedding. She discovers they're actually even stranger than she thought - they're from another planet.

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The New Mutants (2020)

IMDb 5.3 🍅 36% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 34m

Directed by Josh Boone

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe New Mutants weaponizes isolation and body horror—young mutants weaponized by facility operators, powers become psychological torture.

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

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The Suite Life Movie (2011)

IMDb 5.2 Letterboxd 2.4 1h 19m

Directed by Sean McNamara

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; a Disney Channel sitcom about twins in a research experiment comedy scenario.

Cody and Zack are approached to join the Gemini Project, a high-tech research center studying the dynamics between twins. Shockingly, they find themselves interconnected in a whole new way! When one twin experiences something, the other twin feels it too. This newfound revelation helps them see eye to eye for the first time, and it puts them in more danger than they could have imagined.

Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies on Disney+