Monster movies about extraterrestrial life

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the leader of a paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator, a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts his team down. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.

2021 film directed by James Gunn

2002 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Cloverfield is a 2008 American found footage monster film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard. It stars Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller (in his film debut), Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, and Odette Yustman. In the film, six friends attempt to flee from a monster that attacks New York City.

2011 film directed by J. J. Abrams

2007 film by Frank Darabont

1990 film directed by Stephen Hopkins

2000 film directed by David Twohy

2017 film directed by Daniel Espinosa

2018 film directed by Shane Black

2016 film directed by Dan Trachtenberg

2001 science fiction comedy film by Ivan Reitman

2022 film directed by Jordan Peele

1998 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

Prey is a 2022 American science fiction action horror film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Patrick Aison, based on a story by Aison and Trachtenberg. It is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise and a prequel to Predator (1987), set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. It stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. The story revolves around a young Comanche woman, Naru, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter. She finds herself having to protect her people from a vicious, humanoid alien that hunts humans for sport.

1988 film directed by Stephen Chiodo

1958 film by Irvin Yeaworth

2018 film directed by Julius Onah

2011 film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego

1986 film directed by Frank Oz

2006 film by James Gunn

1988 film by Chuck Russell

1957 American thriller film directed by Nathan H. Juran

2011 British science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Cornish

1974 film by Jun Fukuda

2010 film by Gareth Edwards

1985 film by Tobe Hooper

2020 film directed by Egor Abramenko

Predator: Killer of Killers is a 2025 American adult animated science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Micho Robert Rutare, based on a story by Trachtenberg and Rutare. It is the sixth installment in the Predator film series and its first animated installment.

1972 film by Larry Hagman

1965 film by Mario Bava

Xtro is a 1983 British science fiction horror film written and directed by Harry Bromley Davenport. The film stars Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer, Simon Nash, and Maryam d'Abo. The film focuses on a man who was abducted by aliens and returns back to his wife and son three years later.

1980 film directed by Luigi Cozzi

Inseminoid (titled Horror Planet in the United States) is a 1981 British science fiction horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke and Stephanie Beacham, along with Victoria Tennant in one of her early film roles. The plot concerns a team of archaeologists and scientists who are excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet. One of the women in the team (Geeson) is impregnated by an alien creature and taken over by a mysterious intelligence, driving her to murder her colleagues one by one and feed on them.

2004 film directed by Matthew Hastings

2007 film directed by Jeffery Scott Lando

1991 film by Harry Bromley Davenport

2012 film by Mark Atkins

1995 film by Harry Bromley Davenport