10 Sci-Fi Movies That Aren’t As Bad As Everyone Says

Cube director Vincenzo Natali may always remain a controversial figure in sci-fi and horror cinema, destined to live in the intersection of the two genres for all eternity.

Everything from his feature debut Cube to last year's divisive Joe Hill adaptation In The Long Grass sees the director offer just enough explanation for the film to be considered sci-fi, only to pull back leave everything mysterious enough for both movies to also qualify as horrors. As such critics tend to be frustrated by the ambiguity of his movies and leave them with unfairly underwhelming reviews.

This problem is epitomized in 2009's Slice, the director's most underrated film. The movie is a piece of disturbing sci-fi horror which earned undeserved ire for its tale of an irresponsible scientist and his naive lab/life partner in which the pair attempt to splice together human and animal DNA.

This results in an unnerving and troubling film where our protagonist plays God and gorily pays the price, but not before some seriously messed up sequences which some critics balked at and felt were unnecessarily grotesque.

Unnecessarily grotesque, that is, for a movie intended to be a cautionary tale about science going too far. Why wouldn't that story being gruesomely upsetting?