The 8 best movies like Dead Space

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment

What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures

What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

Image: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Releasing

What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

Image: The Criterion Channel

What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

Image: twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

Photo: Alan Markfield/twentieth Century Fox

What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

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What it’s: Before there was Alien, there was Dark Star, a kooky area comedy envisioned by eventual-Alien-writer Dan O’Bannon and then-unknown director John Carpenter as an offbeat different to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are few comedies that may match this checklist, however that is certainly one of them.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Fans of Dead Space or Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film will see immediate similarities in Dark Star’s imagined future, the place blue-collar spaceship staff futz about interstellar area. But Carpenter’s film, first cobbled collectively as a scholar movie then finalized as a function for about $60,000, is an enormous goof, full with slacker area cadets pranking one another aboard the Dark Star scout ship, a bowling ball alien sidekick, a speaking bomb (the Hal 9000 alternative), and ahead-of-the-time particular results being put to make use of for comedian mayhem. On the wavelength of Dr. Strangelove or National Lampoon greater than any straight-faced sci-fi horror flick, Dark Star’s far-out area peril stays cult-y and off-the-radar. But there’s a motive Quentin Tarantino lately revered it as “a classic.” —Matt Patches

Where to observe: Dark Star is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Pluto TV, Tubi, and Roku.

Pandorum

What it’s: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in Christian Alvart’s 2009 sci-fi horror drama as Lieutenant Payton and Corporal Bower, two interplanetary naval officers and crew members of the spaceship Elysium who awake from hypersleep after eight years aboard and uncover that the remainder of the ship’s crew have gone lacking. If that weren’t sufficient, a gaggle of cannibalistic monsters at the moment are stalking them throughout the ship as they race to seek out solutions.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Glen Schofield — the director of 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and the unique 2008 Dead Space — immediately cited Alvart’s movie amongst his favourite sci-fi horror movies and a outstanding affect on his strategy to horror in video games. “I love movies like Alien, The Thing and Pandorum. And then [Event Horizon] and Alien Versus Predator. There’s not a lot of them, but I liked them all.” —Toussaint Egan

Where to observe it: Pandorum is accessible to stream on Starz and ford digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Sunshine

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What it’s: Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and author Alex Garland (Annihilation) launched the sci-fi psychological thriller Sunshine in theaters only one yr earlier than Dead Space, and the movie and sport have some clear parallels. The film follows a world crew of astronauts who embark on a mission to reignite Earth’s solar with a large nuclear bomb — solely to come across the lacking, derelict ship that tried an identical feat seven years earlier. A lethal, mission-altering accident isn’t the one terror the crew of the Icarus II has to face, and every part that may go fallacious, does go fallacious.

Why it’s like Dead Space: Sunshine has all of it: a derelict ship; quasi-religious fundamentalists succumbing to area insanity; flashes of grisly physique horror; extremely dramatic lighting; zero-G area walks; a lavish hydroponics lab; and a star-studded forged led by Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, and Mark Strong. OK, that final bit has nothing to do with Dead Space, however what a lineup! — Michael McWhertor

Where to observe it: Sunshine is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Ghosts of Mars

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What it’s: All of John Carpenter’s movies have pleasant B-movie flare. But arguably none have greater than Ghosts of Mars, a pseudo-Western on Mars with an all-star forged (together with Ice Cube, Pam Grier, and Jason Statham). When a freight prepare on a mission to choose up a prisoner (named Desolation Williams and performed by Ice Cube) returns with just one survivor (Natasha Henstridge), she is interrogated concerning the sequence of occasions, unfolding by a sequence of interweaving flashbacks.

Why it’s like Dead Space: The Martian environment is extraordinarily spooky (and the crimson tones of the planet’s floor are beautiful), particularly within the again half of the film, which I’ll go away deliberately imprecise in order to not spoil something. John Carpenter is famously a fan of the Dead Space franchise and has mentioned to anybody who will pay attention that he desires to make a film adaptation. Ghosts of Mars makes it straightforward to see why he’s so drawn to it. —Pete Volk

Where to observe: Ghosts of Mars is accessible for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Solaris

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What it’s: Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the identical title, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 psychological sci-fi horror drama facilities on Kris Kelvin, a psychologist who is distributed to an area station orbiting a mysterious exoplanet after the crew of the station have ceased communication with Earth. When he arrives, Kris is plagued with the identical unusual hallucinations and visions which can be afflicting the remainder of the station, forcing him to confront reminiscences and revelations about himself and his beloved one he had lengthy since left buried.

Why it’s like Dead Space: In phrases of the cerebral horror of it, and the truth that a literal planet messes with individuals’s minds later within the authentic Dead Space trilogy, Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi opus feels like a pure companion to Dead Space’s model of existential terror. It’s not significantly gory or bloody, however if you happen to’re searching for a movie that can — a lot like the psychologically corrosive sign emanating from the Marker buried within the strata of Aegis VII’s floor — sink its hooks into your thoughts and never let go, Solaris is the proper selection. —TE

Where to observe it: Solaris is accessible to stream on Criterion Channel and HBO Max and without cost with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

The Fly

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What it’s: David Cronenberg’s remake of the Kurt Neumann’s 1958 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, an eccentric scientist who believes he has created the primary useful teleporter able to transporting inorganic and natural matter safely throughout huge distances. However, following an accident that happens whereas inside his prototype, Brundle’s DNA is fused with that of housefly — inflicting his physique to endure a weird and horrifying metamorphosis that endangers the lives of him and his family members. Jeez, and Gregor Samsa thought he had it dangerous!

Why it’s like Dead Space: While not set in or round area, Brundle’s transformation right into a terrifying, sex-crazed human-fly mutant hybrid might be the closest cinematic parallel to the ghoulish transformation of the Necromorphs in Dead Space, other than these seen in both Event Horizon or the Alien sequence. You can’t spell “body horror” with out David Cronenberg. Well, err, technically you completely can, however any dialog on the subject of physique horror with out mentioning Cronenberg is moot from the soar! —TE

Where to observe it: The Fly is accessible to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu.

Underwater

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What it’s: An underrated Kristen Stewart-led sci-fi thriller a few group of deep sea drillers who uncover some horrifying issues on the backside of the ocean.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It doesn’t happen in area, however what’s the ocean if not “space, but water?” OK, perhaps that doesn’t precisely scan, however Underwater’s eldritch horror leans into a number of the exact same concepts, photos, and scares that many area horror franchises (together with Dead Space) love as properly. —PV

Where to observe: Underwater is accessible to stream on Hulu, or for digital rental or buy on Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space: Downfall

Image: Film Roman/Anchor Bay Entertainment

What it’s: An animated prequel to 2008’s Dead Space, the movie follows the crew of the USG Ishimura as they try and survive the psychological epidemic and subsequent onslaught of the so-called “Necromorphs” following the restoration of the mysterious alien artifact often known as the “Marker” on the planet Aegis VII. The movie was produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media subsidiary identified for his or her earlier work on animated sitcoms like King of the Hill and movies like 1992’s Tom & Jerry, and directed by Chuck Patton, identified for his work on the 1997 animated sequence Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Why it’s like Dead Space: It’s actually the canonical prequel to the occasions of Dead Space! If that weren’t sufficient, as if it wasn’t already obvious, Dead Space: Downfall is gory as all hell. This was intentional on Patton’s half, who needed to tell apart the movie other than the studio’s earlier work because the goriest function movie had ever produced. On prime of that, the manufacturing staff was offered the 3D belongings for the sport’s environments and characters as references for the movie’s animation, significantly the transformations of the Necromorphs themselves. —TE

Where to observe it: Dead Space: Downfall is accessible to stream without cost on Plex and with adverts on Freevee by way of Prime Video, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi, and Roku, for digital rental and buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Dead Space, the sci-fi horror online game franchise starring the ever-suffering engineer Isaac Clarke, has risen from the useless with a brand new remake of the 2008 authentic for contemporary consoles courtesy of Montreal-based developer EA Motive — and it’s actually good! Whether that is your first time descending into the Necromorph-laden bowels of the USG Ishimura, an avid Dead Space fan keen to identify what Motive have modified on this new model, otherwise you simply need to know who the heck this dude in a sci-fi diving swimsuit doing the shoot dance in Fortnite is, the 2023 remake of Dead Space is stable on almost all fronts.

The success of this new Dead Space sport bought us interested by horror maestro (and “Grandpa Horror”) John Carpenter’s long-held want to supply a live-action adaptation of the sequence. Then we bought to pondering the place such a movie would match among the many best videogame movie diversifications created to date, and then that bought us interested by what are the best sci-fi horror movies to observe for followers of Dead Space each new and outdated — y’know, apart from the plain ones like Event Horizon and the Alien sequence, ‘cus you’ve doubtless already seen these!

An hour right here and there of trawling IMDb later, and also you’ve bought this checklist: The most Dead Space-like movies to observe if you happen to’re searching for one thing else to chase the exhilarating horror and enjoyable of enjoying by the brand new remake.

Dark Star

Image: Jack H. Harris Enterprises/VCI Entertainment