10 Sci-Fi Movies Too Scary To Finish

10. The Void

Produced in 2016, The Void manages the same feat as Harbinger Down pulled off a year earlier, providing a mid 2010’s tribute to the practical effects heavy sci-fi horrors of the eighties via some impressive make up and creature effects which lend the gritty affair a gross sliminess that CGI can’t hope to recreate.

The plot, such as it is, follows a pack of unfortunates caught in an abandoned hospital between the proverbial rock of some demented death cultists and the hard place of an undead deity-man and his disgusting once-humanoid creatures, conjured from whatever Lovecraftian dimension spewed out the monsters from comparable splatter spectaculars From Beyond and Re-Animator.

Unlike its campy eighties predecessors, however, The Void is surprisingly serious in tone, meaning there’s little comic relief from the shocking gore and gasp-inducing mutations on display throughout its runtime. Add in a bleak, cosmically trippy ending, and you’ve got a reliable recipe for audiences tapping out before this gross-out odyssey reaches it ending.