10 Sci-Fi Movies Too Scary To Finish

We’ve spotlighted the best film from Magnolia director namesake/ scourge of video game adaptation fans everywhere Paul W.S Anderson before, but the space-based horror more than deserves a spot on this list—even if you’re stuck watching the incomplete cinematic cut since a ton of gory extra footage was cut and since lost when the studio balked at its shocking content pre-release.

Following a sparse crew as they board the eponymous spaceship and encounter only an empty husk whose crew appears to pulled a Marie Celeste, Event Horizon takes its time building up an intense, unsettling atmosphere before glimpsing what became of the doomed crew—and what fate, by extension, is in store for our heroes.

Then we find out their fate in no uncertain terms, although some very epileptic-unfriendly editing does a good job of hiding most of the gruesome mayhem. However anyone assuming that the limited visibility of this film’s onscreen violence makes it an easier watch is sorely mistaken—instead, the film’s choppy cutting and hyperactive visuals make it far more disturbing, as the lack of lingering leaves this gore more convincing than any slower approach would allow for and contributes to the film’s claustrophobic, nightmarishly tense tone.