AfterEvent Horizon, Here Are More Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Should Get TV Adaptations

Stranger Things time of year three , which riffed on The Thing and The Blob ( among others ) , was the latest testament to the endure baron of sci - fi horror — until we heard that Amazon was circulate a seriesadaptation of Event Horizon . While the smoothing iron is hot , here are four more sci - fi horror titles stark for tv set translation .

Pitch Black

David Twohy and Vin Diesel’sRiddick trilogystarted off stiff , but the third movie , 2013 ’s Riddick , offered a textbook illustration of what happens when your antihero principal fibre issurrounded by a lackluster supporting cast . The less - than - rapturous reaction to that film did n’t damp Diesel ’s exuberance for the franchise ; in 2015 , he announced he ’d ink a dealto develop a TV seriesbased around the character , tentatively titledMerc City , that would follow “ the mercs and bounty hunters of the Riddick population . ” He also tease apart another feature film cinema : aRiddick origin storyset on Furya , the character ’s base satellite .

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The latter may end up find out the twinkle of Clarence Day first , especially considering that last monthDiesel revealedhe’d just received Twohy ’s book for Riddick 4 : Furya . But a unfermented canvas for the “ Riddick universe ” seems like a more interesting move . A TV serial would give Twohy room for more of that eery , hostile sci - fi worldbuilding he loves so much , as well time to flesh out the form of interesting , complex part that someone like Riddick needs to balance out his full - force badass persona . As for Diesel , he ’s been in that Fast and Furious/“I am Groot ” zone for a while ( he also hasBloodshoton the elbow room ) , and one suspect he ’d welcome the opportunity to poke even deeply into a character he ’s so obviously fond of ( not this one ) .

Alice Cooper in Prince of Darkness

Alice Cooper in Prince of DarknessImage: Universal Pictures

The Fury

Brian De Palma made 1978 ’s The Fury right afterCarrie , but despite its incredible cast ( admit Carrie ’s Amy Irving , as well as Kirk Douglas , John Cassavetes , Carrie Snodgrass , and Charles Durning ) and some similar composition , you never really find out anyone peach about The Fury . That ’s surprising , conceive its main plot of land — about psychic - telekinetic young people point by sinister authorities agents — feels very of the moment , very X - Men , Stranger Things , Midnight Special , Fast Color , really any story with a “ mutant youth on the streak ” situation . ( Unsurprisingly , a remakewas floated a tenner ago , but it never come to realisation . )

A TV serial could go back to John Farris ’ informant novel , which focus mostly on the talented stripling played by Irving in the movie , and slowly build up the confederacy — including a more in - profundity aspect at the special school she embark on pay heed before realizing to her revulsion that the students ’ might are being weaponize . Of naturally , to avoid being witness as a Stranger Things rip - off , a Fury serial would need to be set either in the present day , the time to come , or in an era far earlier than the 1980s , and definitely avoid all varieties of giant , spongy monsters .

The Faculty

Director Robert Rodriguez deform his lamia Western From Dusk Till Dawninto a TV series , but another genre - bender — awesome foreign - invasion teen - angst repulsion comedyThe Faculty — also seems ripe for small - covert exploration . The Faculty came out in 1998 , when screenwriterKevin Williamsonwas at the height of his Scream / Dawson ’s Creek zeitgeist , but the canonical plot is pretty timeless . High schoolhouse sucks no matter what , but the suck is extremely amplified once you realize that your ossification - obsessed schoolmate and teachers are actually pod mass in disguise … and you ’re next on their enlisting lean .

The O.G. movie had a immense ensemble hurl ( Elijah Wood , Jordana Brewster , Clea DuVall , Josh Hartnett , Famke Janssen , Robert Patrick , Salma Hayek , Piper Laurie ) , and a series could wreak back one of the characters as a instructor or parent , doubling down on the film ’s elated delight in making as many dad - culture book of facts as possible . It could even be set in the same Ohio town as the picture , and focus on another alien leader arriving on Earth to terminate the coup d’etat line of work that got foiled by tamper nestling 20 year originally . You ’d already have a built - in interview thanks to The Faculty ’s status as a furor film — and that would only acquire if the serial pulled anAsh vs. Evil Deadand stayed true to what made the movie so enjoyable , while expanding its story in clever ( but still gory as blaze ) new way .

Prince of Darkness

In 2015 , John Carpenter announced he was working onseveral different TV projects , but we have n’t heard much on that front since then . In the meantime , the Halloween reboot trainroared into motion , with Carpenter ’s benediction , and the esteemed writer - director turn his attentions to things likemusicandcomics . While we ’ve used up most of our Carpenter - adjacent wishes to desire against hope that the foresightful - rumoredBig Trouble in Little China remakenever happens , we sure would n’t beware floating the idea of a Prince of Darkness series out in the universe .

Satan is an evergreen telecasting theme , but Prince of Darkness institute its own spirit of otherworldly to the board . It imagines that the Devil has taken the form of some spectacularly sinister neon ooze , the sudden find of which attracts the attention of a group of college students who mean to study it but are soon sucked into its spiral of malevolence .

You ’d emphatically have to conform thing so the persona are n’t trapped in a crumbling church the entire fourth dimension , but there ’d still be mickle of nightmare material left with claustrophobia bump off from the equation . Amid all the body horror , microbe swarm , urban uneasiness , and interdimensional apocalyptic warning , Prince of Darkness ( write by Carpenter , who credit himself as “ Martin Quatermass ” ) floats all kinds of freakish mythology that it never really get a luck to properly unpack . It would be outlandish as blaze to look out — but why do we have a zillion pour services anyway , if someone ’s not start take a fortune on the weird clobber ? A TV series could do all that , and more .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.