The streamer formerly known as Epix has both original programming and a library of movies, including some offbeat genre picks.
When you think of streaming services, MGM+ doesn’t come to mind until you’ve already listed the likes of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, and Peacock. But that doesn’t mean you should overlook this arm of Amazon MGM Studios, which offers original programming and live TV option, as well as a small but intriguing library of features. Here are 10 sci-fi and horror picks to get you started.
This 1965 thriller has a tantalizingly ominous title but is definitely more “Cold War frights” than the Satanic freak-out you might suspect it to be. Legendary director John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) oversees an excellent cast (Dana Andrews, Richard Basehart, George Maharis, Anne Francis) in a story about a dangerous bioweapon that—despite being kept in a top-secret facility—somehow falls into the wrong hands. It’s sci-fi, but it feels like it could happen, which makes it even more alarming. Watch on MGM+.
This 1964 release was actually a made-for-TV movie, written and directed by Joseph Stefano—who’d adapted Robert Bloch’s novel into Hitchcock’s Psycho script, and produced and co-wrote classic sci-fi anthology series The Outer Limits. The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre was intended as the kick-off for a horror anthology series that never came to fruition, which is too bad—but at least we have this creepy feature-length tale starring Martin Landau, Judith Anderson, and Diane Baker, about a paranormal investigator who agrees to help a heiress who’s convinced she’s being harassed by a ghost. Watch on MGM+.
When this 1981 tale of gory revenge at a summer camp turned 40 a few years back, io9 took another look and realized it’s still “a potent slice of slasher horror.
