10 Alien Invasion Movies Where Humanity Loses

As a found footage horror anthology series, the V/H/S franchise has never treated humanity with respect or dignity, offering up a multitude of scenarios and worlds in which all manner of nightmares arrive to scare, slash, torture and annihilate the species. But V/H/S/Beyond takes a new approach, centring the majority of its segments around aliens making their first (and often final) contact.

Comprising five segments connected by an overarching sixth, which purports to be a documentary segment featuring real-world talking heads, the film puts the average human face to face with all kinds of alien life, from the moderately threatening to the unnecessarily homicidal.

Jay Cheel's "Abduction/Adduction" frame narrative shows us a house haunted by alien lifeforms who use its occupants to breed. Kate Siegel's "Stowaway" segment has a young woman discover an alien spaceship in the Mojave Desert, and find her way on board, realising too late that its purpose is to gather up specimens of Earth life and transport them wherever home might be. But perhaps the most conclusive segment of all is Justin Martinez's "Live and Let Die", in which a group of skydivers notice alien crafts spontaneously appearing across the skyline, before one teleports into their plane and sends them terra-bound quicker than they had hoped. On the ground below, the survivors are forced to contend with fast, hideous, demonic-looking quadrupeds who are intent on killing everything in sight - and boy howdy, do they succeed.