If you are looking for the best movies like Event Horizon, you came to the right place. We have curated a list of similar sci-fi, thriller, and action movies for you to watch. So sit back and fire that streaming box! Event Horizon is a spaceship that vanished years ago, when it suddenly reappears, a team is sent to investigate the ship.
When the team begins to explore the seemingly abandoned ship, it soon becomes evident, that something vicious resides inside and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon’s previous journey are still present. When a thriller meets science fiction and flashy effects, the climax is following the next one – all in all you get one of the best space horror films ever made.
Best Six Movies Like Event Horizon
1/6. Passengers (2016)
A huge spaceship transports thousands of frozen sleeping passengers. Due to a malfunction, one passenger wakes up ninety years ahead of schedule. The fate that awaits him, is a whole life in complete solitude. To alleviate the loneliness, he decides to wake up one more passenger and when the two try to find out the truth behind their mishap, they begin to fall in love with each other. The only thing that bothers them is the real danger of their spaceship and the discovery of the truth behind their awakening. Passengers have an original plot, that even those who are not fans of science fiction movies, will be able to relate to.
It’s an epic romantic story that gives you a lot to think about, this movie leaves you with a moral dilemma that echoes for days in your mind.
2/6. Doom (2005)
A group of tough space marines is sent to a science facility on Mars, to check what happened to scientists in an underground lab, when they found out that an experiment went wrong and everyone is in danger because of zombies that turn into huge and deadly monsters.
This is a cool action movie, with great effects, and aside from the incessant suspense, some great action sequences, and an ending with an unexpected and very surprising twist.
3/6. Sphere (1998)
Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) is a psychologist that wrote a report for the government on how to deal with extraterrestrial life forces. When a secret government agency is investigating what may be an alien spaceship buried on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, Norman finds, that the plan he outlined is being put into effect and that the team he named in his report has been assembled.
This is a well-written movie, with an awesome cast – Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson. All the details come into a greater picture step by step, till the surprising ending.
4/6. The Thing (2011)
After an alien battleship was discovered buried in the Ice, paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), joins a team at the isolated Arctic outpost. She finds an organism that appears to have perished in the crash years ago, but, in fact, is about to awake. Freed from its icy prison, the insidious life-form goes on the attack. Paranoia spreads like wildfire among the crew, as they fight to survive against a creature that assumes the shapes of its victims.
Based on a short story, and prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic – this science fiction, horror movie will take you to your limits, It’s scary and unpredictable, a real treat for this genre lovers.
5/6. Europa Reports (2013)
An international team of six astronauts has been sent on a private mission, following a discovery that hints at the possibility of a single-celled life on Europe – Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon. After a serious technical malfunction, that leads to the loss of contact with the earth and the death of one of the team members, the rest are forced to refocus on the task, till they have an unexpected revelation.
A fascinating movie that gives a lot of respect to science, and with a lot of action and mystery, we end up with 97 minutes really well spent.
6/6. Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Movie duration: 124 min
The spaceship Prometheus follows a star map discovered among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Led to a distant world and an advanced civilization, the crew seeks the origins of humanity, but instead. discovers a threat, that could cause the extinction of the human race.
Prometheus is a prequel to the 1979 “Alien” cult movie, In this smart and beautiful movie, Ridley Scott manages to recreate the essence and primal vibes of Aliens with high-end technology and visual effects.
