2 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies On Netflix This Week

For the rest of January, these films are your best bet for sci-fi horror cinema.

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Godzilla Minus One is one of the best movies of 2023, and it is easily in the top-level of best Godzilla movies in the franchise. It also makes it one one of the best movies on Netflix right now. Set at and after the end of World War II, Godzilla Minus One follows a kamikaze pilot who deals with survivor’s guilt and the ramifications of his actions during the war. In the ensuing years, Godzilla arrives and wreaks havoc on Japan, forcing the pilot and other citizens still recovering from the war to band together in a fight for their collective survival.

The Platform 2 (2024)

The Platform 2 takes the premise of its predecessor, The Platform, and expands the themes of its world in an interesting way. Like the original, this sequel is set within a prison-like facility called The Pit in which prisoners are housed in small concrete rooms stacked on top of each other for hundreds of floors. Each day, a platform containing just enough food for everyone lowers through The Pit, but if the food isn’t rationed correctly, the people on the lower levels will starve. In this film, the society of The Pit has taken the form of a kind of theocracy, and Perempuán (Milena Smit), a new prisoner, must quickly learn to navigate the politics and loyalties of her fellow prisoners if she hopes to survive.