The Most Terrifying Aliens in Sci-Fi History | Quinn's Ideas

Quin, the scene where data is cutting into the Diana cake has been lodged in my brain for like 25 years! I thought it wasn't real, it freaked me out so badly as a kid! So glad you played that clip, I thought I dreamed it.

this intro is fire

Fire in the sky is for sure a scary movie and for sure gave me nightmares when I was a kid. But the documentary is pretty tame. Dude explained he woke up on the ship, some grays were there. He grabbed what looked like the eye-rods from the roswell crash and started swinging. The grays were terrified of him. Then a Nordic alien shows up wearing a helmet and man handles him. They then take him on a tour of the ship(?), he mentions the halls and floors of the facility/ship were wavy, ie not flat and angular like ours, the floors waved up and down and the hall ways did too. Then they take him outside the ship and its revealed he's in a massive ship way bigger than he thought. They showed him a star map. Thats all I remember. Nothing like the movie.

Did actually visit Roswell. Had a green chili cheeseburger at the ufo McDonald's. Had a fabulous time.

I mean how scary r the borg ...u r just in a different collective :P

I see The Three Body Problem as being heavily flavored by the Chinese version of Xenophobia. Europe and the USA are certainly inspirations for the Tri-Solarians, with their cunning, their naive over-sharing, their technology that isn't radically far ahead, their methods of embargo-as-warfare. China itself spent so long uniting, then dividing, then uniting again that a cultural fear of theirs is definitely chaos, which Americans especially are more likely to embrace under the guise of "freedom."

Rooting Alien Abduction and, more specifically, 'Aliens want our Women' tropes to the civil rights era is profound. That is not talked about enough AT ALL. Media is informed by the zeitgeist, which is in turn informed by the media, creating a sort of social "psychosphere"--an immaterial force that influences the thoughts of the population without them knowing it.

Obviously, as you pointed out, thinking Signs (the movie) is scary doesn't mean you're the Grand Cyclops of your local KKK chapter, but one of the things that the genre of alien abduction or "Aliens want our Women" films relied on was creating a feeling of 'Otherness'. From designs to social structures to the way they spoke, everything had to be as foreign as possible in order to sell something audiences wouldn't otherwise accept--a one dimensional character. Of that era, one of the few things that defined aliens across different films from different genre's, movements, directors, writers, etc was the mono-dimensionality of the alien. It's so foreign that OF COURSE it wants to murder and slaughter and turn us into batteries or breeding machines. Of course they want to destroy our shared culture, turn our histories to myth and legend, erase even the slightest sign of our existence. Of course the alien wants that, just look at how, well, ALIEN it is! And it turns out, most audiences didn't find that very hard to believe at all.

Because that's exactly what the colored couple down the street wants to do. That's exactly what the new generation wants to do. That's exactly what the new Government wants to do. Etc, etc.

I'm not saying Alien films are a conspiracy to turn families down the alt-right pipeline, but the core idea of an invader is something that is, at least in the United States, fundamental to the fabric of society here. The alien is the perfect personification of the populist fear: the 'otherized', untamed, uncontrollable, inexorable future, and in a world of stagnate culture where nostalgia reigns supreme, nothing is quite as terrifying as that.

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King is one of the worst authors I’ve ever read, no originality in his works and the only details that he writes in depth about children having orgies. Dudes a full on trashy pedo and Stine and Koontz write circles around that pedo creep.

Signs is absolutely a disappointing film, imo
With a few tweaks it could've been one of the creepiest alien movies ever made; but instead it's so off-kilter and weird that it feels more like it was made by an actual alien...

The Outer Limits had a lot of good episodes! Some dealt with things similar to your mentions, but put a twist on it. There was an episode where, and it's been 20 years now, so I'm barely getting details. I guess someone, humans started changing in some ways. There were some that were almost like you'd imagine a super soldier to be. Tougher, faster, stronger. Heightened senses and more. Some cops catch a female of this genetic offshoot, and they interrogate her. In the process she tells them that almost everything is in order, and she gives just enough information to show them their likely doom. After she gets them agitated, they tell her they're going to force key information out of her. So she ends the interrogation by snapping the handcuffs and breaking her neck. A full 180 twist, and she obviously sees the horrified look on the cops faces. Badass.

"Government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies"

This is such an american idea. An american myth by itself. A myth of democracy, one that states that a political regime is based on a legitimacy. That the ruler is imposing and supporting the myth because ultimately the regime is based on a will of the people.
Yeah, tell that to Genghis Khan.
And if someone thinks now things are different, or, even funnier, that things in any typical "western democracy" are different - try to not pay tribute to your local Genghis Khan. One will quickly learn what is important to the ruler and what is just a toy that ruler use to entertain and distract the controlled population.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. Not from some kind of popular belief. The government dies when it's grip on the gun weakens or if a foreign government knocks a gun out of their hands.

What was terrifying to my daughter as a kid. Was the original Dune movie. The baron is floating around,talking to piter de vries , his suk doctor. No it was his mentat . I think that is his name. Anyways hes putting his hands all over his slave. He can't walk due to raping a reverend mother Gaius Mohiam. The beast Raban is there , squishing bugs and drinking the juice. And his slave is terrified beyond words and he gets his heart plug pulled. Bloods flowing, baron is floating. And black liquid is pouring down his face. And all of them were laughing maniacly. That was it for Abby 😅

The Thing is sickly and horrible. It is one of, if not the scariest monster ever filmed.

Most likely aliens are treating us like a wild animal that is trying to chew its own leg off.

This is some entertaining shit.

I want space versions of animals we use for agriculture to make contact with us. Put unto perspective why aliens wouldnt want anything to do with us.

A passanger plane can be struck by lightning just fine. But a space craft that can travel faster than light cant???

The thing is much more like a bacteria than a virus

Why did the roswell incident take over a generation for people to pay attention to it if it really was aliens? It would’ve been a lot bigger.

Stories end up being changed often at the beginning when they are fresh and information is still scarce.

Day of the Triffids is a novel by John Wyndham turned into a movie. Village of the Damned is an adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. I’m 20 mins in and the man’s name hasn’t been uttered. Sad, but I guess ultimately not your goal here. Still sad. Liked the video.

Yes. I was saying species and it popped up

Oh god. The borg are the Republicans

They live was basically the plot to ninja theories dmc. I loved that

Hopefully if they want to breed its something consistentual like the acturians in aliens lol. They made it sound the best in just 3 lines.

No…conspiracy theories aren’t intriguing to us who utilize proper skepticism…

Ahhh the x files, cest magnifique!! Love it its my favourite sci fi tv show ( although its dabbles in other genres which makes it better!)

Ahhh good old m night shama lama bing bong! When he does a good film its worth it!

I loved that episode in Star Trek from another dimension who are entering the Enterprise to experiment on Riker and others

Best adaptation of War of the Worlds is Spaced Invaders that not only lampoons the original story but also the alleged radio show panic. Good fun, worth a look.

Data cutting the cake unlocked some memories 😅 TNG was peak

It’s funny that humans are obsessed with portraying aliens as some kind of icky scary monsters when in fact they don’t have any reason to be that way. Why wouldn’t they just be more highly evolved versions of us? Different looking of course but not so different as to be giant clicking grasshoppers or something.

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu has forever changed my take on aliens

aliens are just the modern interpretation of demons and witches. Aliens are probably real, but none of them are flying here solo in a flying saucer to probe 1 person.

I was very pleased to see Life included on this list. I think it flew under the radar for a lot of people. It really got me when I first saw it, one of my worst nightmares.

Tbh, if the spiders and ants from children of time aren't on this list I'm going to rage.

Spoilers ahead:

The scene where the shuttle lands and the ants start burrowing into the mutineers was legitimately the most horrifying thing I've ever read

Yes fire in the sky is based on a true story a lumber jack was abducted in the 70s an was brought back a week later
On the alien ship Miacheal(the victim)seen 3 typical big eyed aliens an a taller on one then he was escorted out the to another ship there he seen ancient man-kind(nords) not human tho humanoid, tho being humanoid they treated him as other.

Anyone who thinks that the Roswell incident didn't recover alien bodies with one of being ALIVE needs to be introduced to Airl so they can have a nice little chat😂

aliens are scary because white people fear being colonized themselves... its just a reflection of western society

i always was scared of the classical "grey", like the roswell kind. also, the movie "signs" was extremely scary, until the alien was actually visible in that house. when it was visible and acted like a npc in a badly programmed game, it became blunt and goofy.

None of this is as scary as fascists

Midnight is such a good Dr. Who episode!
My partner and I have just started season 2 of the xfiles, so good.
Signs is one of my favourite films, that birthday party scene still gives me the shivers.

Excellent video, Quinn.

The Phantoms from Final Fantasy the Spirits Within are pretty damn terrifying

Actually, Quinn, Buzz Aldrin did land on the moon. Collins piloted the module.