Suspenseful
moodScience fiction that runs on tension, dread and the slow reveal.
The Thing from Another World
An Air Force crew and a team of Arctic researchers uncover a flying saucer buried in the ice — and, frozen a short distance away, its pilot. When their attempt to thaw the block of ice for study goes wrong, an eight-foot alien plant-based organism with a taste for blood is loose in the isolated research station, and there is nowhere in the frozen dark for anyone to run.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A small-town doctor returns home to find his patients insisting their loved ones aren't quite themselves anymore — subtly wrong, emotionally flat, somehow replaced. He soon discovers the horrifying truth: alien seed pods are growing perfect physical duplicates of the townspeople while they sleep, replacing them one by one with copies that look identical but feel nothing at all.
The Omega Man
Two years after a biological war wipes out nearly all of humanity, Dr. Robert Neville believes he may be the last normal man alive in Los Angeles — immunized by an experimental serum while everyone else either died or mutated into a nocturnal, light-sensitive, quasi-religious cult calling itself The Family. By day, Neville scavenges an empty city and hunts his enemies; by night, he barricades himself inside his fortified apartment and waits for dawn.
Westworld
At Delos, a luxury resort populated entirely by lifelike androids, wealthy guests live out fantasies in perfectly recreated Western, medieval and Roman worlds — free to gunfight, romance, or duel robotic hosts programmed to lose every time. When a software failure begins spreading through the park's systems, the hosts stop following the script, and a implacable, silent Gunslinger android starts hunting a guest for real.
Alien
The commercial towing vessel Nostromo, hauling ore between stars, is diverted by company order to investigate a signal from a dead world. What the crew brings back aboard has a life cycle perfectly designed to use them — and their employer knew.
Escape from New York
By 1997, Manhattan Island has been walled off entirely and converted into a maximum-security prison where convicts are dumped and left to build their own lawless society. When Air Force One crashes inside the island with the President of the United States aboard, the authorities offer decorated ex-soldier and convicted bank robber Snake Plissken a full pardon for one impossible job: go in, get the President out, in 24 hours or less.
The Thing
An American research station in Antarctica takes in a dog fleeing a Norwegian helicopter crew trying to kill it. The dog is not a dog. It is something that imitates — perfectly, cell by cell — and by the time the twelve men understand that, any of them could already be it.
The Terminator
In 2029, the machines that exterminated most of humanity lose the war — so they send an unstoppable cyborg assassin back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of the resistance leader who beat them. The resistance sends one soldier to protect her. He has a photograph, a sawed-off shotgun, and no way home.
Aliens
Ellen Ripley, sole survivor of the Nostromo, is found drifting after 57 years in hypersleep — and nobody believes her story. When contact is lost with a colony on the very world where her crew found the derelict ship, she returns with a unit of cocky Colonial Marines. This time it isn't one alien.
Predator
An elite rescue team led by Dutch Schaefer is dropped into a Central American jungle for a routine hostage extraction. The mission is a lie, and something else is in the canopy — a creature that hunts humans for sport, sees in heat, and collects skulls as trophies.
Jurassic Park
Billionaire John Hammond has done the impossible: cloned dinosaurs from DNA preserved in amber, and built a theme park around them on a Costa Rican island. He invites two paleontologists, a chaos mathematician and his own grandchildren for a preview weekend — the same weekend a bribed employee shuts down the fences.
Strange Days
Los Angeles, the last two days of 1999. Lenny Nero, ex-cop turned black-market dealer, sells SQUID recordings — full sensory captures of other people's experiences, straight from their cerebral cortex to yours. Addicted to replaying tapes of his own lost relationship, Lenny is dragged out of his loop when a snuff recording lands in his hands: evidence of a murder that connects to his ex, a music-industry conspiracy, and a police killing that could set the burning city off entirely.
Terminator: Dark Fate
Decades after stopping Judgment Day, Sarah Connor is still hunting Terminators alone — and still grieving the future she thought she'd saved. When a new machine, the shape-splitting Rev-9, is sent back to kill a young factory worker in Mexico City, Sarah crosses paths with Grace, an augmented super-soldier from a future that was never supposed to exist, and with an old, unexpected face who has spent years quietly living with what he did.