True Sci-Fi Fans Don’t get Scared!

Published on October 31, 2005 By foreverserenity In Movies & TV & Books

So says the Rock, wrestling star and currently the star of the movie Doom. In a recent interview about the movie, which is now open at the theatres, he said (not verbatim) that he wasn’t sure about doing the movie because as a game it was very scary and re-telling it as a movie might be too much for the general audience who didn’t know it. However, when he thought about it a true Sci-Fi fan would not be scared. When the Director of the movie was interviewed, he said the same thing “a true Sci-Fi fan would not be scared of the movie”.

I have to agree with them. A true Sci-Fi fan would not be afraid of seeing something that would be too scary to others who didn’t like the genre. It’s not really about gore and blood, although when done tastefully, that will add another dimension to the film. But rather, at least in my opinion, a great story line, with intrigue and a story that is so intense you sit at the edge of your seat with bated breath until the end of the movie! Plus the cinematography has to be great too!

After watching it you can’t stop thinking about it and you would watch it again, and again, and again. And then you will want to won your own DVD version if you’re a collector!

There’s real Sci-Fi and then there are those trashy B-movies being passed off as Sci-Fi and of course there are those Horror movies that are a cross between Sci-Fi and Horror. The Sci-Fi genre is so wide, so vast in what is out there, that if I were to go into it, this would be a very, very, long blog!

Some good movies (or television shows) that encompass this genre, Sci-Fi and/or Horror that I enjoyed watching were:

Star Trek

Stargate SG 1

Star Wars

Dune

Spawn

Stargate Atlantis

Battle Star Galactica

Hellraiser

Matrix (the entire saga!)

Alien (the entire saga!)

Close Encounters of the Third kind

Brother from another planet

2001:A Space Odyssey

Blade Runner

12 Monkeys
War of the Worlds

Resident Evil

Blade

I could go on and on and I’ve probably not mentioned quite a lot on this list!

When I watch these types of movies, I don't get scared when I see the creature or monster or alien. I actually like looking at the "thing" that is the focus, how it's made, the details involved in what the creators did making it look how it does, in an artistic kind of way! I'm glued to the screen, I'm there for the long haul and I definitely don't want to miss anything! So naw…. a true Sci-Fi fan would never be scared!

Comments

Zoomba

on Oct 31, 2005

Sci-Fi fans look at entertainment differently than non-fans do generally. This is a pretty big generalization, but it largely holds true (with the exception of the Film Nerds who analyze every film down to the individual frame). I think it comes out of our tendency to be nerdy in general. Most true sci-fi fans are nerds of some persuasion, we want to see how things go together. So when we see this stuff, we are more concerned with how it was put together, how they're explaining the "science" that justifies the events of the movie. We're too busy deconstructing the movie at some level to really be "scared" by it.

Sci-Fi movies, when frightening, aren't for the monster or the gore necessarily. Sure, the Alien in the Alien series is really evil and scary looking, but most of the scare-factor in those movies is from the psychological poking you get from watching it. Good horror centered sci-fi is scary because it takes something that is itself horrific (a monster, a robot, a disease) and uses it to play out a very human situation. Humans in crisis is far more terrifying than any boogyman a movie can throw on the screen. A common theme that adds tension/fear is being isolated, cut off from any sort of help. Another is the survival instinct where eventually the group of characters start to turn on one another in an every-man-for-themselves frenzy. Horror in sci-fi is all about painting a situation and letting the worst of human nature take its course.

Dr Guy

on Oct 31, 2005

What about Event Horizon?

Zoomba

on Oct 31, 2005

What creeped me out in Event Horizon was the idea of what happens to the human mind when it passes beyond the bounds of everything we know and understand in the universe. We don't understand a great number of things out there, and how might we cope with what we find? Will we have a break-down? Will our minds just shut-down in self defense? Or will we become psychotic killers like Sam Neil did in the movie?

Dr Guy

on Oct 31, 2005

Will our minds just shut-down in self defense? Or will we become psychotic killers like Sam Neil did in the movie?

Which is kind of the point. Space Aliens and blood and gore are not a big deal. But if we cannot fulfilll our destiny among the stars, that scares us!

foreverserenity

on Oct 31, 2005

Good response Zoomba, you Sci-Fi fan you! lol!

What about Event Horizon?

That was an interesting movie, creepy but interesting!

what happens to the human mind when it passes beyond the bounds of everything we know and understand in the universe. We don't understand a great number of things out there, and how might we cope with what we find? Will we have a break-down? Will our minds just shut-down in self defense? Or will we become psychotic killers like Sam Neil did in the movie?

Interesting comment and questions. These questions have been asked before by other and I too have questioned this very thing. How much information beyond our realm can we take? Whether we break down or not, who knows. But we might just go crazy unless we're evolved enough to think differently than we do and we are not. It would be way beyond our comfort level of acceptance!

Space Aliens and blood and gore are not a big deal. But if we cannot fulfilll our destiny among the stars, that scares us!

Good point too Doc!

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