The best horror and suspense films about contact with UFOs

Flying saucers, aliens or UFOs are some of the names with which beings from another planet have been adopted to make contact with the earth. There are endless stories about encounters of the third kind, but these are the best horror thrillers that will leave you paranoid about a possible alien invasion.

Not just one of the best horror and suspense movies about aliens, but also a science fiction drama like few in modernity. Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’ with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner is about the arrival of some strange special ships, where only a linguist is the only one who can solve the true motive of the aliens on Earth. Available on Amazon Prime Video and Claro.

Close encounters of the third kind

There is no better title that describes a UFO movies rather than “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Directed by Steven Spielberg in 1977, the story follows a worker who has a strange encounter with UFOs. After the event, he feels a mysterious attraction to an isolated area where he is about to witness something few humans have ever seen. Available on HBO Max.

The thing

John Carpenter is a master of putting terrifying creatures on screen, and one of the best aliens in horror movies is in 1982’s “The Thing.” Starring Kurt Russell, the story follows a group of scientists who are based in Antarctica. One day, a helicopter shoots a dog and when they investigate the corpse, the remains of the dog come to life and start attacking the rest of the crew. Available on Claro, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.

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The immense of the night

One of the best heirs of the alien horror films of the 80s and 90s is ‘The Vast of Night’, a suspense film directed by Andrew Patterson. The story is set in the year 1950, in which two boys who work in the radio of a small town discover a frequency with a strange message coming from the outskirts of the place. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

Contact

With the help of the most famous science popularizer of all times, like Carl Sagan, Robert Zemeckis released in 1997 ‘Contact’, a science fiction and suspense film starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. The story follows a scientist chosen to begin a mission that could mean humanity’s first contact with an off-planet species.

fire in the sky

And finally, a rarely mentioned sci-fi mystery film, 1993’s ‘Fire in the Sky’, directed by Robert Lieberman. The story is set in Arizona, where a lumberjack goes missing for 5 days after some claim a mysterious light in the sky took him away. Available on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.