Every sci-fi horror movie streaming on Netflix in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Netflix’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Netflix US
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✦ MovieMuse AI takeEvangelion's body-horror finale weaponizes psychological collapse as sci-fi catastrophe—humanity's extinction becomes intimately visceral.
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
Directed by George A. Romero
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrainy, unflinching social realism transforms zombie siege into indictment of human barbarism—the real horror isn't undead but us.
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-atomic Japan's Godzilla embodies sci-fi horror's core terror: unstoppable force meets human fragility without technological salvation.
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
Directed by Iain Softley
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnreliable diagnosis becomes cosmic threat: sci-fi horror via psychiatric uncertainty, questioning what's delusion versus alien infiltration.
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Directed by Nia DaCosta
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Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.
Directed by Jhonen Vasquez
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInvader Zim subverts alien-invasion dread through comedic pathos, making existential abandonment feel both absurd and genuinely unsettling.
ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
Directed by John Krasinski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe creatures' echolocation vulnerability transforms sci-fi horror into sensory deprivation nightmare—silence as survival mechanism.
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Directed by Hideaki Anno
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRebirth's fractured narrative mirrors human consciousness breakdown; TV series reconfigured into incomprehensible dread-fest.
Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.
Directed by David Twohy
✦ MovieMuse AI takePitch Black weaponizes solar eclipse as biological timer, creating alien predators that embody evolutionary indifference to human survival.
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
Directed by Jordan Peele
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnidentified aerial phenomenon remains visually abstract, refusing to satisfy monster-reveal expectation; the unseen is more terrifying than spectacle.
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
Directed by Will Becher
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFarmageddon's pastoral setting clashes with government conspiracy sci-fi horror, making the cute completely vulnerable to state violence.
When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIndustrial-revolution steampunk trains become mobile fortresses against undead infection—machinery as desperate evolutionary compromise.
In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains. Half a year after the events of the original TV series, the heroes of the Iron Fortress attempt to take back Unato Castle.
Directed by Danny Boyle
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-pandemic society's fragile quarantine model reveals how scientific containment becomes horror's primary antagonist.
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Directed by Hiroyuki Seshita
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBLAME!'s Net-infected megastructure collapses reason itself; civilization's automation becomes incomprehensible cosmic horror.
In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Killy the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world.
Directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-loop marriage dissolution treats human connection as sci-fi malfunction—intimacy fractured by temporal mechanics.
Mary loves John for as long as she can remember. But after years of marriage, John's priorities shift, leading to a strained relationship with Mary, which causes a tragic accident that takes away Mary's life. Until one day, John gets an extraordinary proposition - to rewind time and save the life of the woman he loves.
Directed by Alexandre Aja
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCryogenic amnesia triggers existential suffocation; oxygen countdown becomes metaphor for consciousness dissolving in isolation.
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Directed by David Twohy
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRiddick's alien predators embody unthinking survival instinct—sci-fi horror stripped of moral framework, pure predatory logic.
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCross-temporal communication via dead niece weaponizes grief as murder-mystery engine; time becomes psychological violation.
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnder the Skin's Glasgow streets become hunting ground for incomprehensible alien sexuality—sci-fi horror as predatory seduction.
A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Directed by Cho Il
✦ MovieMuse AI takeClaustrophobic isolation becomes sci-fi horror's ultimate weapon when technology that should save you becomes your prison instead.
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Directed by Nic Mathieu
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpectral weaponizes infrared vision technology against supernatural beings, colliding rational warfare with paranormal impossibility.
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
Directed by Tony Elliott
✦ MovieMuse AI takeARQ's time-loop trap forces couples into recursive violence; dystopia becomes personal hell-engine of repetition.
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
Directed by Jim Mickle
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMoon's temporal serial killer defies investigation itself—sci-fi horror making detective work obsolete against impossible crime.
In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the killer mysteriously resurfaces nine years later, Locke's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, his family, and possibly his sanity.
Directed by Charlie McDowell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeProof of afterlife triggers mass suicide; sci-fi horror where scientific discovery becomes civilization's poison.
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.
Directed by Stephen Chiodo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlien Xmas subverts holiday wholesomeness through gravity-destroying invasion—sacred human moment meets casual extinction.
A young elf mistakes a tiny alien for a Christmas gift, not knowing her new plaything has plans to destroy Earth's gravity — and steal all the presents.
Directed by Peter Thorwarth
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlood Red Sky's airborne vampire outbreak transforms enclosed aircraft into airborne biohazard nightmare—nowhere left to evacuate.
A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.
Directed by Bill Oliver
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJonathan's unspecified condition creates body-horror intimacy between brothers; sci-fi disability becomes psychological dependency.
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Directed by Ben Young
✦ MovieMuse AI takeApocalyptic nightmares manifest as literal invasion; protagonist's unconscious dread becomes physical enemy.
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
Directed by Federico D'Alessandro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSmart-house AI captor embodies sci-fi horror of benevolent surveillance becoming inescapable imprisonment.
Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Directed by George Clooney
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArctic isolation paired with unknown global catastrophe; returning astronauts inherit only radioactive silence.
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
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