The Scariest Genre of Science Fiction

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  @ianvelazquez2093 · 3 years ago

  This concept has always terrified me, even the part in Spy Kids where the antagonist turns people into cartoony characters for his show used to creep me out

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• SO

  @someaccount3438 · 3 years ago

  In The Last of Us, there is an area where two runners are eating another human. If you observe them for a while, they can be heard crying and even uttering phrases like "I don't want to", which is arguably more terrifying of a concept than just being chased by them.

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• MA

  @masonhutchinson4815 · 2 years ago (edited)

  King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard has a concept album called Murder of the Universe where they explore the idea of rapidly evolving into an unrecognizable beast with the sole desire to kill all while maintaining a human conscious. Definitely fitting with these works, would highly recommend

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• AD

  @adamdubin1276 · 3 years ago (edited)

  You mentioned All Tomorrows but you did not mention the Colonials, I understand that they eventually evolved into a more suitable form before they were wiped out by the Gravitals, but being reduced to an interconnected fleshy carpet that has full awareness of what they were and what they have become... to quote the Think Tank: "Vivisect me!"

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• DY

  @dyrania · 3 years ago

  I love how in “I have no mouth and I must scream” AM is just a human made in it’s image. A human with a computer for a body and no physical way of expressing it in human form. Any human stuck in such a ‘body’ or lack there of could react the same with such malicious, petty, and downright insane intent.

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• ME

  @Melina-tp3hu · 2 years ago

  I think the fact that Coraline has managed to get so many people from children to adults scared is because of this same reason. Seeing those "humans" with buttons instead of eyes was so unsettling even at the initial introduction of the so-called parallel world, before the movie got actually scary. Rather than feeling scared for my life, I was terrified and had this crawling feeling whenever I saw those inhuman button eyes.

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• FA

  @fabiooliveira531 · 3 years ago

  I always have classified this as a fusion of Cosmic Horror and Body Horror. Body Horror was always the scariest thing for me.

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• ST

  @staceya5149 · 3 years ago

  &apos;But in general, take my advice: when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.&apos;<br><br>This particular species of horror always puts me in mind of that quote from Prof. Lewis. &nbsp;I don&apos;t think there&apos;s anything more profoundly unsettling that something that&apos;s almost - but not quite - human. Often I suspect you&apos;d be feeling for your hatchet to put it out of its misery.

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• JO

  @JoshuaAndres · 3 years ago

  Another good example of this that I’m surprised you didn’t mention, The Flood in the Halo series. Not so much how it molds you into whatever it wants and keeps you aware. But it takes away your individuality, it takes away your memories until you can’t remember who you are and makes you indistinguishable from other flood forms around you.

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• CA

  @catherine-gm2fs · 3 years ago

  I think the last of us also does a good job of hitting a point on evolutionary horror. In the game, the infected are heard to be crying and calling out for help since it is their body that is being taken over by the fungus and not the mind. There are scenes where the infected are eating or tearing apart other people and are seen vomiting and showing disgust as they do it because they cannot control their own body. To me that is one of the scariest concepts, to watch the world fall before you while being the one who ruins it, but not having a choice in doing so

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• TY

  @tylorfox783 · 3 years ago

  The Last of Us is particularly frightening because the person is still in there. There’s a scene in the game when a zombie is savaging a corpse, the zombie is heard saying, “I don’t want to, I don’t want to.”

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• KI

  @kitstephens9324 · 3 years ago

  i think something that really scares me about zombie stuff (more specifically the walking dead) is the absolute hopelessness of fighting so hard to survive while knowing the whole time that you’re eventually doomed to become exactly what you’re fighting

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