The 10 best underground sci-fi movies to dig into now that 'Silo' season 3 has ended

Unless you’re a naked mole rat or a worm-lizard, you were never meant to live your life out underground like the poor doomsday denizens of Apple TV's " Silo .

" Season 3 has revealed how a trillionaire industrialist named Per Stenson (Colin Hanks) funded the insane project to build 50 subterranean bunkers in Georgia, housing 10,000 people each, as a bold failsafe effort against humanity’s inevitable extinction in the face of global nanotech warfare.

Hollywood has mined the sci-fi subgenre of underground exploratory movies for decades, and it’s amusing to see how real science has been either faithfully depicted or completely ignored over the years.

Regardless of geological accuracy, venturing into unnatural environments unfit for sun-seeking individuals makes for fantastic drama, from titles like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "The Core" to "The Mole People" and "City of Ember." Let’s burrow into this list of subterranean sci-fi flicks to see which ones rise to the top! 10.

"The Mole People" Release date: December 1, 1956 | Director: Virgil W.

Vogel We sure love a campy black-and-white creature feature, and this 1950s favorite ticks all the boxes.

Descend thousands of feet into the center of the Earth and meet this unknown Egyptian-like empire of darkness where vicious mole monsters exist in subterranean lairs.

Archaeologists and scientists join a globe-trotting expedition to find a tunnel leading to this lost civilization of pale-skinned Sumerians who enslave these hideous mole mutants to harvest their mushroom crops.

Human sacrifices, a corny romance, and truly frightening makeup effects make this cult B-movie well worth a watch.

And who knew a flashlight could become such a potent weapon! 9.

"10 Cloverfield Lane" Release date: March 11, 2016 | Director: Dan Trachtenberg John Goodman (Howard) stars in this slightly deranged sequel to 2008’s "Cloverfield" that’s considered part of the whole interconnected Cloverfield Universe that also includes the 2018 space-based thriller, "The Cloverfield Paradox." Most of the film takes place in an underground survival bunker after a girl named Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is rescued from a car crash by Howard and taken inside the shelter where Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), the bunker’s designer, also exists.

Howard and Emmett try to convince Michelle that the outside world has been poisoned by an alien invasion, but she’s not buying it.

With threats above ground trying to get inside, intense paranoia and jealousy growing within, this smart little gem becomes an interesting successor to producer J.J.

Abrams and director Matt Reeves’ "Cloverfield" that delivers the big scares.