Recommended Weird Fiction Films

On a top-secret mission to Jupiter, a malfunctioning but proud computer named HAL attempts to test the loyalty of an unwitting crew before their rendezvous with an artifact of unknown alien origin.

Working-class salvage junkers, awoken from cryogenic sleep in deep space to investigate a hostile planet of storms, discover an organic spaceship of unknown origin crashed there, along with its terrifying parasitic cargo.

Norwegians at a scientific research base in Antarctica unleash an alien shapeshifter, buried in the ice for 10,000 years, upon their own heads, but are killed before they can stop it from reaching a neighboring American camp.

Sexy young backpackers in Mexico get directions to some barely-explored Aztec ruins from other tourists, only to find the forest path there has been deliberately hidden by irate locals.

A videographer, obsessed with fear, explores the spookiest, deepest parts of the Tokyo underground infrastructure to capture on film what he finds there, until one day he discovers the ancient ruins of an unknown civilization -- and a survivor.

Vacationers enjoying newfound wealth aboard a yacht run into stormy weather off the coast of Spain and are forced to land in a creepy seaside village where the locals have ignored the consequences of worshiping a sea monster deity for generations.

A pair of lovers stumble across a murdered man in an alley and bring home his briefcase to discover a blue stone inside that emanates intense feelings of euphoria.

Ordinary residents of a small town turn against eachother after being trapped inside a grocery store due to a thick mist outside that hides man-eating creatures from another dimension.

In a rural community, a pair of scientists become addicted to using a tuning-fork apparatus to view the inhabitants of a dimension that sits alongside our own, creating a doorway that refuses to be closed.

On a vacation to a remote cabin, a group of teenagers are casually lured to their doom by a multinational corporation with access to real movie monsters.

A highly-sought-after insurance fraud investigator is tasked with locating a missing horror novelist, but believes himself to be a pawn in a promotional stunt when the novelist's creations begin to manifest in real life.

A narcissistic android poisons a crew of painfully-naive explorers with a contagious black mutagen they discover in an abandoned humanoid settlement.

A neurotic recent divorcee stalks his unstable ex and struggles to piece together the rationale behind her sudden and extreme need for independence. With much help, he finally locates her secret apartment, but it becomes apparent her intentions are to guard her newfound privacy with deadly force.

A low-rent cable TV channel owner picks up exotic video footage of brutal tortures on his company's satellite dish and traces the source not to a middle eastern dungeon, but to Pittsburgh.

Toxic waste dumped into the Han River in Seoul produces a new species of amphibian monster which preys upon children in parks along the bank, leading the family of one of the victims to band together to hunt it down.

A municipal construction project to expand a London subway station unearths the haunted corpses of grasshopper aliens. Madness ensues.

The physics and linguistic departments, students and faculty, from a nearby university are called in to help priests understand exactly what a secret society has been storing in the basement of their church.

A once idealistic, state-of-the-art center for studying psychic abilities has fallen into the evil clutches of the sadistic youngest doctor on staff, who uses his authority to dominate and abuse his obsession, a dangerous female psychic.

True to his restless seeker-self, a beloved nature-documentary-television-host goes off-grid upon learning of tribes deep in the Amazon who practice actual sorcery. Months later, his family retraces his route in the hopes of learning his fate.

As a favor, a tax lawyer offers to defend a group of Aboriginal men accused of murdering one of their own, and through contact with his clients discovers his own mystical lineage.

A book detective is hired to track down all illustrated editions of a rare occult tome, and in the process finds himself at the center of a Satanic cult's race to open a doorway to hell.

Viewing a dazzling and well-publicized meteor shower leaves the overwhelming majority of the world's population blind, which allows a new species of lumbering plant to easily prey upon them.

A Yakuza mobster is ordered to assassinate his unstable brother while on a trip to a remote rural village. Upon arriving, the brother goes missing immediately, and the town's perverse residents are of little help as they push him to confront their resident deity.

A single dad hallucinates while attempting to raise his deformed infant in existential squalor.

Two brothers and an ice cream truck driver snoop on a shady mortician believed to possess superhuman abilities, and in the process discover his mortuary is guarded by feral dwarves and a mechanized, floating orb.