From the legendary chest-bursting scene in Alien to one of RoboCop's brutal kills, these gruesome deaths are a reminder of how horrific sci-fi movies can be.
One of the great things about science fiction as a genre is that it can be almost anything. Science fiction can be hopeful and utopian, and even more often, sci-fi can be dystopian, nihilistic, and full of darkness. Sometimes, though, great science fiction can also be terrifying.
Watching the xenomorph burst out of his chest, a newborn killing its host as it leaves, is never something that gets old throughout the rest of the Alien franchise. But it’s never more relentlessly horrifying than it is in this first, petrifying sequence. Emil Antonowsky — RoboCop RoboCop - Toxic Waste Scene | Movieclips There’s plenty of gruesome stuff in one of Paul Verhoeven’s best American movies, but perhaps nothing is more viscerally upsetting than the death of villain Emil Antonowsky, who winds up driving into a pit of toxic waste near the film’s climax. Some directors may have left what happens to Antonowsky up to the imagination, but not Verhoeven.
Perhaps the most upsetting moment, though, comes when the team tries to perform CPR on Vance Norris, who has seemingly suffered a heart attack. They discover he’s been taken over by the alien when a hole opens up in his chest as they attempt to use the paddles and a huge set of teeth bites off the doctor’s arms. It’s a totally practical effect and one that is still deeply upsetting to this day.
Ekaterina Golovkina — Life Golovkina Drowns In Coolant | Life | Voyage Life may not be the kind of sci-fi classic that many of the movies on this list are, but it features several genuinely gnarly kills. The movie follows a group of astronauts who discover life on Mars, and then learn exactly how hostile that life is to humanity.
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