20 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies Of The 21st Century

20. Pitch Black

Slight cheat on this one, as the year 2000 technically isn't part of the 21st century. But when it's as slick a film as Pitch Black, it would be unfair to miss it off this list by a few months.

Before Vin Diesel franchised the character into the ground, he made his debut in this sci-fi story about a transport mission gone wrong.

Stranded on a hostile planet under perpetual daylight, it's not long before an alien aggressor starts picking off the crew in the planet's hostile cave network.

But it's not just a survival story, as tensions fray and unlikely allegiances are forged in a fight to survive and escape this place. Naturally, everyone suspects each other until they realise the bigger threat at hand: a rare eclipse is imminent, which will bathe them in darkness and make them vulnerable.

While it may seem like any standard stranded horror film, the crew of the Hunter Gratzner made it worth the watch. Whilst Radha Mitchell and Cole Hauser would have carried it alone, Diesel's shadow-lurking anti-hero Riddick added that flair to make Pitch Black as great as it is.