You might already know this, but science fiction often introduces some pretty odd ideas.
I know, I’m being controversial, but the conversation is worth having!
See, sci-fi isn’t just a whole lot of allegory and metaphor thinly veiling real-world issues.
No, it’s also a form of escapism and bewonderment!
Who knew!
So when you marry sci-fi and horror, another famously strange genre, you get a smorgasbord
of idiosyncrasies.
Hell, that might be the reason folks like it so much!
You know, if you skim over the critiques of human nature and the world we live in.
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we’re going to take a look at the
Top 5 Most Bizarre Sci-Fi Horror Movies!
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NUMBER FIVE: THE STUFF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRdPNlLG4s
5:42 - 5:51 This movie literally never gets old.
It’s magic.
I can’t fully explain it.
But from the moment we see an aging, bushy-eyed man wearing a wide-brimmed hat decide that
eating goop bubbling up from the earth with his bare hands while it’s snowing is a good
idea, there’s no going back.
That tells you everything you need to know about this movie!
It’s gonna be filled with dimwits, insane setpieces, and white goop that can’t possibly
be good.
Which, when you think about it, really is the formula for smash-hit sci-fi.
The Stuff, if you peel back all the grotesque transformations and flaming motel rooms, is
a movie about consumerism taking over our lives.
But boy does it approach this message in a sideways manner!
We meet David “Mo” Rutherford, on a quest to make money and sabotage entire industries.
Legend.
He meets all sorts of wild and wacky characters on his quest to figure out exactly what The
Stuff is.
There’s good ole Chocolate Chip Charlie, the kung-fu fighting junk food mogul.
And there’s young, sweet Jason, who sees the Stuff for what it really is: a mind-altering
parasite that should never be consumed.
And of course, there’s Nicole, the love interest.
This heroic party sets forth to discover exactly what’s happening with The Stuff, and if
you’ll pardon the pun, bites off a little more than it can chew.
The Stuff is being pumped out of the earth by a heartless corporation that doesn’t
seem to mind that they’re actively indoctrinating the public and feeding them to an alien substance.
Of course, this company wants any and all interlopers dealt with.
And if the company wasn’t enough, the Stuff seems to have a mind of its own, crawling
around and forcing its way into people.
At one point, we meet a hardline, anti-communist militia leader who lays siege on factory stronghold
after factory stronghold.
If it seems like it’s all over the place, that’s because it is.
And the performances don’t do a fantastic job of pulling story threads together, either.
But there’s enough Stuff sloshing around and doing ridiculous things to keep anyone
entertained.
And if you’re a fan of non-sequitur and people getting turned inside-out, this is
for you.
NUMBER FOUR: FRANKENHOOKER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWv64klPZLY
0:00 - 0:09 Well, yeah.
Just look at the title!
Take the classic tale of Frankenstein, and add in some fresh elements.
If Mary Shelley’s book, the classic Universal Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Mel Gibsons’
Young Frankenstein, the obvious homages in Reanimator and Bride of Reanimator, and The
Monster Squad weren’t enough for you, then here you go I guess!
A brand new (for the 90’s) take on the classic sci-fi tale!
Young med-school dropout Jeffrey loses his fiance to a freak lawnmower accident and decides
that a good way to cope is by bringing her back to life!
But her body isn’t all in one piece, so he’s got to find some spare parts lying
around.
And what better place to get spare body parts than from some Big Apple prostitutes?
Thus begins a wild series of events, including self-trepanation, exploding crack rocks, a
pimp named Zorro, and more!
If you’re looking for bizarre, this is it.
And I mean, let’s be real.
Did you expect anything else from the director of the Basket Case series?
Good old Frank Henenlotter knows how to put together a weird and wild flick!
If the whole thing sounds kind of tasteless, well, that’s because it is!
But it makes up for that with all sorts of lovely flourishes.
The performances are just crazy enough to pull you in and keep you there, without becoming
too goofy or campy.
The score is surprisingly down-to-earth, which grounds the movie well.
Plus it was composed by Oscar-winning Joe Renzetti, who worked on Child’s Play.
Everyone came for the gore, and Frankenhooker delivers wholesale on this.
I mentioned exploding crack rocks earlier.
Well, those aren’t the only things that explode.
They cause the women being experimented on by Jeffrey to explode, too, leading to some
hilarious situations.
Hell, Bill Murray had high praise for Frankenhooker on release.
I wonder if someone could get away with making something like this today…
NUMBER THREE: KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ykU9FkH-g
1:47 - 2:00 Alien invasion has never been so creepy.
Like, regular alien invasions are pretty bad.
But having giant, terrible circus clown abominations harvesting human bodies?
It’s every child’s worst nightmare come true!
Killer Klowns sounds like a ridiculous idea, sure, but it’s so well-executed it’s impossible
not to have a good time!
In the wrong hands, that kind of premise would result in it being unwatchable dreck, but
thankfully we live in the timeline where the Chiodo brothers made it work!
But after the three special effects artists got their wings creating Large Marge for Pee-wee’s
Big Adventure, they tried their hands at directing a movie pretty much all about the special
effects.
And boy, are the special effects a good time.
There are just so many good gags in this film.
The imagination required to come up with enough hilarious and terrifying weapons and situations
involving alien clowns is incredible.
There are crazy guns that shoot popcorn, and the popcorn turns out to be little monsters
that eat people.
There are acidic pies that melt people into goo.
A cop gets turned into a ventriloquist dummy.
There’s so much strangeness packed into this little cult movie from the 80’s and
it deserves every ounce of love.
Oh, and a couple of goofballs boink some lady aliens.
You know, because reasons.
It’s hard to imagine a more bizarre sci-fi horror than this, but I’m sure you already
knew that.
NUMBER TWO: NIGHT OF THE CREEPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkPNohtRI8
1:37 - 1:52 School dance?
Alien invasion?
Zombie attack?
It must be Night of the Creeps.
This cult classic mixes so many 80’s sci-fi and horror tropes together, it’s a miracle
that it keeps its shape.
But it does indeed, and the result is electrifying.
As Tom Atkins would say: Thrill me.
Oh, it does.
We start in space, with a strange canister being launched towards Earth.
It lands, and all of the sudden everything is in good old-fashioned black and white.
We get a taste of some 1950’s creature feature action, and then we’re launched into the
present.
And by the present I mean the 80’s.
It was the present at the time!
Frats, babes, geeks, dorks, all on full display.
It’s a retro B-movie smorgasbord!
After getting attacked by a defrosted, alien-infested corpse from decades earlier, our heroes Chris
and J.C. are thrown into the action.
Soon, they realize that alien slugs are bringing people back to life, causing them to take
on zombie-like traits.
Destroying the brain won’t be enough this time.
You’ve gotta fight alien zombies with fire.
Flamethrowers and house fires do a good job taking care of the intergalactic threat, but
there’s still more to be done.
What a flick!
With all the 80’s revivalism going on now, it’s hard to imagine a flick being so self-aware
and intentionally campy during the 80’s, but Night of the Creeps pulls it off with
aplomb.
NUMBER ONE: THE TOXIC AVENGER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQC60rwaDc
0;50 - 1:00 The first superhero from New Jersey.
Way to go, team.
I mean, it’s a Troma film!
Of course it’s gonna be weird.
The Toxic Avenger is probably one of Troma’s best-known movies, too.
Low-budget, low-brow, and full of lowlifes, this is a classic piece of B-movie lunacy.
Toxie, the Toxic Avenger, once was a scrawny little dude named Melvin Ferd the Third.
He gets chased out of a second-story window at a health club, and lands in a vat of toxic
waste.
Of course.
Thus, a new hero is born.
He runs around town, fighting really obvious crime with insane amounts of violence.
Like, when folks are known as Bozo, Slug, and Cigar Face, you can reasonably assume
that superheroes are allowed to kill them with little to no repercussions.
And some of their deaths are, well, interesting to say the least.
Some are turned into pizzas, some are disemboweled in front of large crowds, some are even dry
cleaned to death.
And the violence is often the least strange of the gags.
The grotesque Toxie finds a companion in a blind woman who can love him for who he really
is.
This results in some horrifying meals in a dump, and a ridiculous bedroom sequence that
has many folks squirming in their seats to this day.
Add in a woman touching herself to photos beyond taboo, a bunch of child slaves, and
the general gross-out, low-brow attitude that Troma so often brings to the table, and the
Toxic Avenger takes the bizarre cake.
This is a movie that exists entirely in defiance of political correctness, it spits in the
face of good taste.
It feels a little different now than when it was released, considering all that the
movie industry has done since, but it’s still among the most crass and fascinating
horror sci-fi flicks out there.
See if you can catch an episode of it’s Saturday morning cartoon sometime.
OUTRO Need a quick shower after all that?
I don’t blame you.
Blood, guts, and a whole lot of butts.
That’s the recipe for a bunch of these flicks, isn’t it?
Well, I don’t see too many people complaining.
What did you think of the list?
Do you agree with my selections?
What entries would you add?
Is there a sci-fi horror that out-weirds all of the rest?
Make sure you let me know down in the comments.
Speaking of comments, let’s take a look at some of your more phenomenal ones from
the TOP 5 SCARY URBAN LEGENDS FROM CHINA: Jacqui G says “Yeah, America has monsters/creatures,
but all the urban legends from Asian countries are downright terrifying.”
What do you think it is that sets some monsters apart from others?
Mattteus says “The maid in the tomb reminded me of The Beast Within (the book, not the
movie).
I bet the mother was keeping the maid alive.”
Oh man, that’s even scarier than the ghost keeping her alive!
Imagine the petty hatred required to go out and feed a woman you buried alive every day
so she suffers more.
Crusix Angel says “I heard that bus one before.
But the one I heard had a different ending.
In the one I heard it was an old man accusing a young woman and that bus was found the next
day.
But it was not old and rusted, with not a soul in sight.”
That’s the beauty of urban legends, they can take so many different forms!
John Gierczak says “Waiting for a bus at night on a lonely street.
Very scary, in Chicago at night.
Not particularly because of ghosts.”
It’s true!
At any moment, fireworks could start going off!
And that’s all the time we have for today!
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