Scary sci-fi flicks

[sickfuck_diablo]

Anything from David Cronenberg - Videodrome, Scanners, Dead Zone, Fly etc.

holy shit, cronenberg is great. existenz is creepy as fuck.

brave new world would be a great movie. just read the book and felt physically ill for most of it. scary. apparently ridley scott is on it. hope he does it, it will be fkin epic.

http://io9.com/5059265/ridley-scott-confirms-hes-making-brave-new-world

a scanner darkly was pretty good, disturbing-ish but mostly just depressing.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

Anything from David Cronenberg - Videodrome, Scanners, Dead Zone, Fly etc.

holy shit, cronenberg is great. existenz is creepy as fuck.

Haven't seen that one yet, but I watched Spider the other night and was pleased that he hasn't lost his disturbing touch (haven't liked much of his recent flicks - History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Crash, since it seemed he was getting away from the sick & twisted horror fare.). He reminds me of David Lynch if he did horror movies and didn't get too wrapped up in his psuedo-artistic wankery.

 

[34thcell]

Was Event Horizon this one?

*checks security record*

*people screaming and being mutilated, some guy's torn his eyes out*

"Ok, we're leaving"

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

toy story

 

[Dragula]

toy story

Yeah thought about that one. Then I realised it was to scary.

 

[SuAside]

Was Event Horizon this one?

*checks security record*

*people screaming and being mutilated, some guy's torn his eyes out*

"Ok, we're leaving"

yes.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

toy story

Yeah thought about that one. Then I realised it was to scary.

i forgot i wrote that. i think i need an Order-leash once i start drinking.

 

[UniversalWolf]

Event Horizon scared the shit out of me when I saw it when I was in grade 9 or 10...

If you'd been any older you would've been disgusted instead of scared.

One of my friends developed a phobia of corn fields after watching Children of the Corn when he was a kid. I told him to go back and watch it again now that he's an adult. It's comedy, not horror.

I just thought of a decent sci-fi/horror flick from the 1980s. It's called The Hidden. I don't remember who directed it, but Kyle Maclaughlin was the actor.

 

[Iridium L]

How about Dead Space? It's pretty much an interactive sci-fi/horror flick full of suspense and gore. No psychological component as of yet though (still playing). I can only recommend it.

As for movies, I'm drawing blanks besides the classics like Aliens and some others that have already been mentioned.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

Aliens isn't horror, it's more like a Viet Nam War movie than it is horror.

 

[Tony Snark]

Anything from David Cronenberg - Videodrome, Scanners, Dead Zone, Fly etc.

holy shit, cronenberg is great. existenz is creepy as fuck.

Haven't seen that one yet, but I watched Spider the other night and was pleased that he hasn't lost his disturbing touch (haven't liked much of his recent flicks - History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Crash, since it seemed he was getting away from the sick & twisted horror fare.). He reminds me of David Lynch if he did horror movies and didn't get too wrapped up in his psuedo-artistic wankery.

wait

since when was crash not sick and twisted

the movie was about people deriving sexual pleasure from car crashes

 

[Dragula]

How about Dead Space? It's pretty much an interactive sci-fi/horror flick full of suspense and gore. No psychological component as of yet though (still playing). I can only recommend it.

As for movies, I'm drawing blanks besides the classics like Aliens and some others that have already been mentioned.

Shitty game. The movie about it wasnt much to see either.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

since when was crash not sick and twisted

the movie was about people deriving sexual pleasure from car crashes

Yeah, I found it kind of laughable, I just didn't buy that as a turn on. Twisted, sure, but by no means a horror movie. Call me old fashioned, but I only get sexual pleasure from sex, I don't get all those fetishes and shit, it just seems silly to me. I struggled to get through that movie, only the prospect of that hot blond actress getting buck-naked kept me going, and the movie didn't disappoint at all in that department.

 

[Iridium L]

Aliens isn't horror, it's more like a Viet Nam War movie than it is horror.

Right, it's comparable to Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now! except that the Vietcong look a bit different and it's set on space vessels and planetary colonies. The Chinooks have been replaced too

Shitty game. The movie about it wasnt much to see either.

Too bad, I was looking forward to see the movie after I finish the game.

 

[Wooz]

Im thinking Event Horizon and similiar.

You slimeball.

I just watched this movie, and has the crappiest plot and most cliche'd characters and dialogue I've seen since Doomsday, although it was released ten years earlier. To top that off, it rips off Solaris and Quake, mixing them both together in a craptastic, inconsistent mess.

Pretty sets, cool gizmos. But one hell of a shitty movie. Furthermore, it doesn't come close to 'scary'. Gah.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

Aliens isn't horror, it's more like a Viet Nam War movie than it is horror.

Right, it's comparable to Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now! except that the Vietcong look a bit different and it's set on space vessels and planetary colonies. The Chinooks have been replaced too

What a superficial statement.
Apocalypse Now isn't a Viet Nam war movie, Nam is just the backdrop.
Apocalypse Now is Heart of Darkness.
Capice?

edit: Director James Cameron on Aliens as Nam flick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)

Cameron drew inspiration for the Aliens story from the Vietnam War, a situation in which a technologically superior force was mired in a hostile foreign environment: "Their training and technology are inappropriate for the specifics, and that can be seen as analogous to the inability of superior American firepower to conquer the unseen enemy in Vietnam: a lot of firepower and very little wisdom, and it didn't work."[6][10] In the story of Aliens the Colonial Marines are hired to protect the business interests of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, corresponding to the belief that corporate interests were the reason that American troops were sent to South Vietnam. The attitude of the Marines was influenced by the Vietnam War; they are portrayed as cocky and confident of their inevitable victory, but when they find themselves facing a less technologically advanced but more determined enemy, the outcome is not what they expect.[8]

Add to that
The troops are led by incompetent officers and betrayed by civilian bureaucrats.
Sounds like Nam to me dude.

 

[Iridium L]

Aliens isn't horror, it's more like a Viet Nam War movie than it is horror.

Right, it's comparable to Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now! except that the Vietcong look a bit different and it's set on space vessels and planetary colonies. The Chinooks have been replaced too

What a superficial statement.
Apocalypse Now isn't a Viet Nam war movie, Nam is just the backdrop.
Apocalypse Now is Heart of Darkness.
Capice?

edit: Director James Cameron on Aliens as Nam flick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)

Cameron drew inspiration for the Aliens story from the Vietnam War, a situation in which a technologically superior force was mired in a hostile foreign environment: "Their training and technology are inappropriate for the specifics, and that can be seen as analogous to the inability of superior American firepower to conquer the unseen enemy in Vietnam: a lot of firepower and very little wisdom, and it didn't work."[6][10] In the story of Aliens the Colonial Marines are hired to protect the business interests of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, corresponding to the belief that corporate interests were the reason that American troops were sent to South Vietnam. The attitude of the Marines was influenced by the Vietnam War; they are portrayed as cocky and confident of their inevitable victory, but when they find themselves facing a less technologically advanced but more determined enemy, the outcome is not what they expect.[8]

Add to that
The troops are led by incompetent officers and betrayed by civilian bureaucrats.
Sounds like Nam to me dude.

Now I see your point, it's just that your analogy without an explanation made little sense to me. I still think that the scary sci-fi flick-angle is the major focus of Aliens, at least for a first time viewer.

And yes, categorizing movies by setting may be superficial, but any categorization is or rather should be. If someone says Hollywood Actionflick I think everyone knows the drill by now.

By the way, I've never seen Apocalypse Now! and was just given a short plot summary by a friend, mea culpa.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

I still think that the scary sci-fi flick-angle is the major focus of Aliens, at least for a first time viewer.

It's a lot less so for Aliens than it was for Alien. In the original, there was only one Alien, and it was hardly shown at all. The second one is balls-to-the-wall action, kind of killed the suspense of the first one.

By the way, I've never seen Apocalypse Now! and was just given a short plot summary by a friend.

It's worth watching, at least 10 or 12 times. Rip some bong hits first. AN is in my top 3.

 

[welsh]

From what I gather there is a worm tentacle rape scene in that one. Maybe I should check that one out. Nothing like a tentacle rape scene to start the week off right.

Well if tentacle rape is your thing... Humanoids from the Deep has underground monsters sexually molesting young girls on the beach in order to spawn.

Total B movie, but hey, worth the popcorn.

Cimmerian Nights- well, I generally agree that Apocalypse Now is a retelling of Heart of Darkness. But then the Heart of Darkness is Belgium Congo and Apocalypse Now is Vietnam and the setting and variations in plot are chosen for a reason- a commentary about the Vietnam War.

The interesting connection that a lot of people miss is that the plot of Apocalypse Now is actually based on a true story. I saw the Life magazine article on it a while back. Apparently a Green Beret officer operating out of Cambodia had decided to kill a few of his Vietnamese/Cambodian leaders because his SF group had been getting hit. The SF guy wasn't officially supposed to be in Cambodia. In Apocalypse Now, the mission is to assassinate the SF Colonel. In real life, the SF officer was tried and court martialed.

Here is some discussion-
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/20thCentury/articles/greenberets.aspx

So Apocalypse Now also plays on an often forgotten event of the Vietnam War- its also a Vietnam War flick.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

I should've said it's not just a Viet Nam movie, because I feel calling AN a Viet Nam war movie is really shortchanging it. Hamburger Hill is a (very good) Viet Nam war movie, nothing more, nothing less. AN is part Viet Nam war movie, part Heart Of Darkness and Part Aguerra: The Wrath of God.

The example you cite is pretty cool and blends pretty well with the existing Kurtz from HoD.