In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Outer Space Horror Movies

This underrated, intelligent sci fi horror film is set on the planet Sirius 6B in the year 2078, a time when war is raging between a group of miners (the "Alliance") and their former employer, NEB. The Alliance has created subterranean, artificially intelligent weapons called screamers, which develop the ability to self-replicate and evolve into anthropomorphic form, setting their sights on eradicating all humans. Followed by the inferior sequel Screamers: The Hunting in 2009.

Ridiculous, low-budget fare about a crew who boards an abandoned space ship and finds it occupied by an monstrous alien that possesses a valuable crystal -- and a desire to kill.

This slick thriller plays a bit like an interplanetary version of Dead Calm, with a 22nd century medical rescue ship responding to a distress call from miners on a comet and picking up a dangerous stranger who smuggles aboard an alien artifact that exhibits strange powers.

Also known as Bloodsuckers, this uninspired, unintentionally funny Sci Fi Channel movie takes John Carpenter's Vampires to an interstellar level, as a group of vampire-hunting toughs eradicate bloodsuckers across the universe -- or at least a galaxy or two.