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

It's not clear what was in the water that film critics were collectively drinking from in 2009, but between Splice, Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, and Pandorum it seems as though no perfectly solid sci-fi could escape their over-dramatic wrath.

Tense and terrifying, this sci-fi horror is a genuinely creepy and clever tale of space madness that succeeds despite the critical hate it received upon release. Compared to Event Horizon (fair for both tone and story) and Alien (not even close), this twisty tale sees the dependably bug-eyed ball of intensity Ben Foster acting alongside genre stalwart Dennis Quaid.

The pair are the only people to awaken on a massive spaceship sent to a distant planet in the hopes of colonizing it after earth's destruction. And there's a little tension between them.

See, some sort of monsters are crawling around beneath the grimy, dark surface of this ship, and someone's dark secrets are responsible for them

The reveal is a genuinely disturbing twist, but even before the truth comes out this paranoid and unsettling tale of space madness is a wildly underrated two-hander that critics were remiss to dismiss.