Collider has published a list piece highlighting ten science-fiction films that are considered too disturbing, violent or thematically heavy for younger audiences, despite the genre's family-friendly reputation involving spaceships and robots. The article argues that while sci-fi is often marketed with flashy technology and effects, these particular titles use those trappings to explore darker adult themes such as bodily violation, loss of control, exploitation and existential dread, making them unsuitable for children.

Among the films detailed are "Upgrade" (2018), a revenge thriller in which a paralysed man's life is restored by an AI implant that gradually usurps his autonomy; "Event Horizon" (1997), about a rescue crew investigating a missing spacecraft that returns carrying evidence of cosmic horror; and "Possessor" (2020), which follows a corporate assassin who commits murders by taking over other people's bodies. The article, published on 3 August 2026, appears to continue with further entries beyond these three, though the full list was not included in the available text.