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Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies on Peacock

Every sci-fi horror movie streaming on Peacock in the US right now — 15 films ranked by rating, checked against Peacock’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Peacock US

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 36m

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.

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Coherence (2013)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 29m

Directed by James Ward Byrkit

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDinner party becomes recursive nightmare when comet-induced quantum superposition shatters social reality.

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

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Freaks (2019)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 45m

Directed by Adam B. Stein

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVivarium's suburban maze traps humanity in algorithmic nightmare, transforming real estate transaction into Kafkaesque body-horror sci-fi terror.

Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.

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Resident Evil (2002)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 36% 1h 40m

Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Hive's organic computing system transforms biological horror into sci-fi body-horror, merging genetic mutation with technological control.

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

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These Final Hours (2014)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 84% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 27m

Directed by Zak Hilditch

✦ MovieMuse AI takeApocalyptic countdown forces existential reckoning, exploiting sci-fi's capacity to strip away civilization and expose primal human nature.

What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.

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The Endless (2017)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 52m

Directed by Aaron Moorhead

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCult's impossible geometry suggests reality itself warps within their belief structure.

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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If You Were the Last (2023)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 32m

Directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa

✦ MovieMuse AI takeClaustrophobic void isolates two minds in existential breakdown—psychological horror weaponized by space itself.

Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.

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M3GAN (2022)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 93% 1h 42m

Directed by Gerard Johnstone

✦ MovieMuse AI takeM3GAN's uncanny valley perfection interrogates AI consciousness through a child's perspective, making technological intimacy deeply unsettling.

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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Insurgent (2015)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 29% 1h 59m

Directed by Robert Schwentke

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSocial network becomes séance—the internet transforms into portal for mass haunting, technology weaponized by vengeful deceased.

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

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Synchronic (2020)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 41m

Directed by Justin Benson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesigner drug induces temporal distortions that weaponize sci-fi's time-manipulation concept into visceral, paramedic-witnessed body horror.

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

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Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 43% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 31m

Directed by Don Coscarelli

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDimensional portal mechanics and biomechanical resurrection establish Phantasm's distinctly sci-fi cosmic dread within horror tradition.

The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies.

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Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 29% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 30m

Directed by Don Coscarelli

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMultidimensional pursuit sequences embed time-travel sci-fi logic into supernatural mythology, creating disorienting metaphysical terror.

Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. Meanwhile, Reggie battles the spheres and the undead in a quest to find Mike before the Tall Man can complete his transformation.

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The Lazarus Effect (2015)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 13% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 23m

Directed by David Gelb

✦ MovieMuse AI takeResurrection serum's neurological corruption explores sci-fi's forbidden-knowledge archetype through the resurrected body's deteriorating consciousness.

Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.

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Day of the Dead (2008)

IMDb 4.5 🍅 13% Letterboxd 2.0 1h 26m

Directed by Steve Miner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeZombie outbreak narrative grounds survival-horror in medical/scientific plausibility, leveraging realism to amplify genre terror.

When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.

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The Recall (2017)

IMDb 4.2 Letterboxd 1.9 1h 31m

Directed by Mauro Borrelli

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlien invasion framework transforms lake-house isolation into cosmic-scale vulnerability, weaponizing intimate setting against extraterrestrial threat.

When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.

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