10 More Recent Sci-Fi Movies You Probably Haven't Seen

It's not that hard to see why the science fiction genre continues to be one of the most intriguing and overflowing in the world of cinema.

Quite simply, the possibilities are, and will always be, endless.

Fancy exploring a world where folks ride on gigantic sand worms in the middle of a desert? Have at it. Feel like battling a horrifying alien on a spaceship? Knock yourself out. Want to know how potentially disturbing artificial intelligence can really be? Then does the movie sphere have the genre for you.

And there has arguably never been more glorious sci-fi tales to get stuck into than there are in this very moment in time, with streaming services and theatres pumping out bold, spooky, or just plain heartwarming science-centric stories by the week.

Now, it's safe to assume that just about every sci-fi lover on the planet has found the time to take in some of the more high-profile recent big-screen offerings, such as M3GAN or Nope, for example. But there's a solid chance that the following compelling looks at time travelling, alien invasions, and human cloning haven't been given anywhere near the level of attention they unquestionably deserve by the average science-obsessed film fan.

Dumping a great many comedic and often horrifying elements into their latest slice of provoking sci-fi goodness, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (the minds behind Spring and Endless) were at it again in the thick of the pandemic.

And it was during that real-life horror of a time that the two, along with a skeleton crew, were able to forge Something in the Dirt; a tale involving two new neighbours discovering a seemingly supernatural phenomena.

Things take numerous gripping and often darkly hilarious turns along the way, with Benson's Levi and Moorhead's John learning as much about themselves as they do the surreal floating quartz and flicking lights in the former's apartment over the course of their conspiracy/paranoia-stuffed odyssey.

Benson and Moorhead absolutely knock it out of the park both in front of and behind the camera, creating a set of carefully drawn figures built to personally clash, with the help of some top-class dialogue, as their quest to make some money off of the bizarre occurrences via a documentary ultimately changes both men's lives forever.

For a sub-two-hour dose of thoughtful, spooky, and routinely comical low budget sci-fi, very few recent outings hold a candle to Benson and Moorhead's dive into the dirt.