10 Cancelled Horror Movies That Would Have Been LEGENDARY

Steven Spielberg’s Night Skies is one of the most fascinating cancelled movies in sci-fi horror history. Conceived in the late 1970s, it would've served as a dark follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Instead of benevolent visitors, Night Skies featured a group of hostiles terrorising a rural family, with one gentle alien forming a bond with a young boy. The story was based on the Hopkinsville Goblin Case in Kentucky in 1955, which involved a dozen people who were allegedly attacked by space invaders. Though Spielberg is no stranger to science fiction or horror, having a story based on one of the most detailed UFO reportings ever made Night Skies even more intriguing.

Spielberg never does anything half-measured, so it was no surprise to learn he intended to hire SFX visionary, Rick Baker, to design the cosmic creatures and Tobe Hooper to direct. But in the end, Spielberg thought it more sensible to splinter Night Skies into multiple properties, with Hooper's Poltergeist inheriting the haunted house tension, and the alien storyline being reworked into E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

In hindsight, it worked out for the better, since we got two classic Spielberg films instead of one. Nevertheless, it's hard not to be curious about what could've been.