From The Fly to Event Horizon, horror expert Neil McRobert is here just in time for Halloween with a guide to the best science horror films of all time
“David Cronenberg’s penchant for body horror has never been put to better use” … Jeff Goldblum in The FlyI’m a horror nerd by trade. I completed a PhD on the subject and now I am the creator of, a podcast of conversations with the biggest names in the field. To settle on a concise list of science fiction horror films for spooky season, I had to winnow down the cross-pollinating history of the two genres.
Science may seek answers, but this adaption of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel is more interested in ambiguity. The film follows an all-female group of scientists on an expedition into the “Shimmer”, a zone of high strangeness colonising Florida after a meteorite impact. The interior of the Shimmer is far more alien than any simple extraterrestrial encounter: there are fungal humanoids, mutated animals and a final confrontation that will leave viewers bewildered and bouncing between awe and despair.
Japanese film-makers were well ahead of the techno-horror curve around the turn of the millennium. From the cursed videotape in, however, offers the scariest proposition of all: the internet is sending ghosts to kill us! In the decades since, the web has become a more commonplace site of torment , he won’t submit easily, leading to most brutal identity crisis ever seen on screen.
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