Every sci-fi horror movie streaming on Stan in Australia right now — 29 films ranked by rating, checked against Stan’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Stan AU
Directed by Lana Wachowski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Matrix's bullet-time lobby shootout visualizes philosophical horror: humans discovering their reality is computational simulation, making existence itself the threat.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Directed by James Cameron
✦ MovieMuse AI takeT-1000's liquid-metal morphing body—melting, reforming, unstoppable—embodies sci-fi horror's deepest fear: a predator that cannot be killed, only temporarily delayed.
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLinguistic relativity becomes existential horror as communication with aliens rewires human perception of time itself.
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Directed by Doug Liman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-loop mechanic weaponizes mortality; Cage's repeated deaths strip sci-fi spectacle to reveal war's dehumanizing repetition and meaningless sacrifice.
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Directed by Daniel Scheinert
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMultiverse branching becomes existential nightmare: infinite self-versions suggest identity is arbitrary, continuity illusion, making consciousness fractured.
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Directed by Francis Lawrence
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHunger Games' surveillance state and forced spectacle-killing transform gladiator fiction into dystopian horror: entertainment as state control mechanism.
After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.
Directed by Danny Boyle
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInfected hordes move with unsettling speed, transforming viral outbreak into visceral siege—the rage-virus redefined zombie horror.
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscapism as dystopian trap—virtual reality becomes inescapable nightmare masquerading as salvation.
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Directed by Gary Ross
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDystopian surveillance state weaponizes children as entertainment—explores how technology enables authoritarian spectacle.
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
Directed by Francis Lawrence
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSole survivor watches civilization collapse through pandemic's aftermath; empty Manhattan becomes mausoleum, transforming isolation into cosmic horror.
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
Directed by Danny Boyle
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStellar engineering and cosmic dread collide as crew discovers something unknowable already aboard their sun-saving vessel.
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Directed by Marc Forster
✦ MovieMuse AI takeScales zombie horror to geopolitical thriller through real-time global contagion mapping and societal collapse methodology.
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInfected humans as walking bioweapons collapse civilization's infrastructure faster than any external alien threat.
Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
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 Lana Wachowski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMachines achieve consciousness and wage total war; artificial intelligence becomes existential enemy, raising whether humanity deserves survival.
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpielberg grounds alien invasion in intimate family dynamics, making extraterrestrial warfare viscerally horrifying through domestic displacement and parental helplessness.
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Directed by Phillip Noyce
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; dystopian drama exploring memory and emotion lacks the genre's supernatural or existential terror.
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Directed by Alan Taylor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-loop paradoxes weaponize existential dread—machines hunting their own creator across fractured timelines.
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRelentless A.I. enforcer embodies technological horror—humanity's creations pursuing inevitable extinction with cold, unstoppable logic.
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
Directed by Pella Kågerman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeExistential despair consumes a generation-ship colony as cosmic isolation transforms mundane spacecraft into a mausoleum of dwindling hope.
A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
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.
Directed by Michael Bay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; primarily action.
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Directed by Michael Bay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; primarily action.
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Directed by Doug Liman
✦ MovieMuse AI takePsychic noise pollution corrupts consciousness across an alien world, weaponizing the mind as vehicle for existential horror.
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeParasitic alien entity hijacks human bodies through dreamscapes, collapsing the boundary between sleep and horrifying invasion.
Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher, They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.
Directed by Benjamin Brewer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNocturnal creature attacks on isolated farm weaponize darkness itself—sci-fi horror stripped to primal survival mechanics.
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.
Directed by Scott Beck
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDinosaurs weaponized as prehistoric apocalypse—space-crash survivors face evolution's deadliest predators.
65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.
Directed by Johannes Roberts
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUmbrella's bioweapon facility transforms city into undead necropolis—corporate biotech creates zombie pandemic.
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Directed by Jim Sonzero
When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
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