An evil house of cosmic horrors makes a climb up the streaming food chain

Intentional or not, every single project that can be broadly described as a “haunted house story in space” owes at least a small thank you to Ridley Scott’s all-time greatness extraterrestrial. Of course, none of them have secured anywhere near such legendary status, save for Daniel Espinosa life delivers at least some fun, mushy thrills.

It helps that the filmmaker has assembled a cast that’s overqualified to sell the absolute shit out of B-movie silliness unfolding in an A-list production, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds and Hiroyuki Sanada all solidly performs on the table in a cosmic creatures feature where the first discovery of extraterrestrial life quickly decides it’s aiming for the top of the food chain.

The being known affectionately as Calvin (at least for a while) evolves at an alarmingly rapid rate and immediately decides to resort to violence, taking out the crew of a space mission one at a time. life also gains bonus points for its ending, which might be a little predictable if you’ve been paying close attention, but nonetheless makes a nice change from the smiley conclusions you’d expect from a star-powered Hollywood vehicle.

Five and a half years after its initial release, the on-demand intergalactic escapade has returned with a vengeance, earning a top 10 spot on Hulu according to FlixPatrol. Just because we’re approaching the end of November doesn’t mean gorehounds will be ditching horror in favor of eggnog and festive entertainment, because there’s always an audience that’s looking for something gnarly when it comes to streaming.