From A Quiet Place to War of the Worlds, movies have repeatedly imagined the many ways that humans probably would not survive an alien invasion. Some of them keep the little green men outside our atmosphere, but even in those cases, the superiority of the otherworldly creatures is obvious. While Alien remains arguably the best-known example of this subgenre of space horror, plenty of lesser-known films have used the tropes of alien sci‑fi to deliver genuinely riveting horror experiences. The 2017 gem Life, starring Rebecca Ferguson in her first foray into science fiction (before Silo), has a new streaming release, and like its genre brethren, it suggests that maybe space exploration isn’t the best idea.

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