Luckily for us, horror and science fiction have been pumping out some incredibly terrifying
concepts that the human mind has been left to sweat over, with how bad things would get
if they ever existed.
But also luckily for us, there’s a fictional organization known as the SCP Foundation whose
soul existence is to contain these very same conceptual entities, lock them behind bars
and make sure that they never get out.
So, come with me - as the crossover slowly begins, and we gently pry away at the seams
of reality and see which fictional boxes fit into the Foundation warehouse.
Hello horror fans - and once again, welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube, Top
5 Scary Videos.
As per usual, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch - as we curiously take a look at the
Top 5 Scary Items That Should Be In The SCP Foundation.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from John Carpenter’s 1982 cinematic masterpiece,
The Thing - which may or may not be on this list - oh, who are we kidding?!
It’s The Thing - the SCP Foundation probably already has a protocol in place to contain
it once it resurfaces again in Antarctica.
And rightly so.
Trust no one.
Kicking off at Number 5 - Dren, from Splice
For those of you that haven’t seen the 2009 French-Canadian sci-fi horror, Splice, written
and directed by Vincenzo Natali - it’s actually a pretty decent horror flick, and one of the
few times that I think a filmmaker has gotten the use of oversaturated CGI right.
It’s also like, a super, super messed up film.
The main antagonist of the film is a humanoid creature named Dren, who was created by two
scientists Elsa and Clive, played by Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody.
The two of them mixed human DNA with DNA from multiple animals, and the result was Dren
- the strangely serene yet terrifying result of genetic splicing.
From creation, the creature aged exponentially - and matured to a six-year old child in just
twenty days.
As she morphed into a mature adult, creature, she developed a tail with a tip like a scorpion,
webbed feet, the ability to produce bat-like wings as well as aquatic lungs that enabled
her to breathe underwater.
Oh, and also, near the end of the film - she morphed into a he.
And proceeds to impregnate Elsa the scientist.
Told you it was messed up.
Yeah, SCP Foundation - lock this one up guys.
Although, it did get a rock to the head.
But still.
Swinging in at Number 4 - Headcrabs, from Half-Life
And forget these guys - because I hate headcrabs.
If you’ve ever played Half-Life or Half-Life 2 - you’ll understand the deep, dire, dread
of hearing a scuttling-ree coming from the end of a corridor.
It’s a headcrab.
And they’re gonna annoy the hell out of you whilst trying to feast on your brain.
Known humorously as headhumpers, the Headcrabs are omnivorous, parasitic creatures - widely
considered one of the most iconic creatures in the Half-Life series.
Hailing from the Borderlands known as Xen - they exist purely to latch themselves onto
a host and take over their motor functions - resulting in Headcrab Zombies.
Although, there is some upside to it - and a potential chance for the SCP Foundation
to utilise these terrifying little guys for the better.
Because, as Half-Life 2 pointed out - headcrabs can actually be domesticated.
As seen with Lamarr - the headcrab affectionately named by Isaac Kleiner, a research scientist
for Black Mesa, headcrabs can actually be debeaked, rendering them unable to break into
a host’s head.
This also suppresses their parasitic instincts, and perhaps the SCP Foundation would be willing
and able to kit their scientists out with friendly, cute little headcrab pets.
Nah, forget that - I hate them.
Next up at Number 3 - Parallax, from DC Comics
And some of the most powerful entities in the SCP Foundation would cower at this guy,
which is why it’s about high time that the O5 council get their arses in gear and lock
this guy away.
Get to it.
Parallax is a demonic parasitic entity dating back to the dawn of time.
It is the living, sentient embodiment of fear - which travels from world to world, causing
entire civilizations to destroy themselves out of paranoia.
Yeah, you get the picture - Parallax would be right at home in the SCP Foundation.
Through being the living embodiment of fear, Parallax is capable of generating and manipulating
vasts amounts of energy - which would probably be the first red flag for the SCP Foundation
- and they’d more than likely be interested in containing and manipulating him into an
infinite power source.
Just a suggestion, if you’re listening guys.
It can alter reality, it can manipulate time - it’s the living entity of an emotional
concept and thus, for all intents and purposes, immortally undying.
Parallax.
Lock him up guys.
Swinging in at Number 2 - The Upside Down, from Stranger Things
Let’s not sugar coat it - the Upside Down is incredibly similar in nature to several
concepts already floating around in the SCP Foundations sphere of influence, but that’s
no excuse to ignore the encroaching terror of the fictional Vale of Shadows.
As the show so brilliantly explained, the Upside Down is an alternate dimension existing
in parallel to the human world - as in, unfortunate individuals, such as poor Will Byers, can
involuntarily slip in between the two.
Most of - if not all - of the flora and fauna present in the Upside Down are linked together
in a hive mind controlled by the Mind Flayer - which essentially forms a massive dimensional
superorganism.
Some of which results in a species of strange, humanoid predators - as seen in Season 1 - dubbed
Demogorgons.
After the end of Season 2 - we understand that the Gate connecting the two dimensions
was supposedly severed, but it’s the interaction that the show’s main characters have with
the Upside Down that would be a source of curiosity for the Foundation.
Think about it.
The highest stakes set out in the show are the fact that no one is really willing or
able to explore this terrifying new dimension.
They just want to get their friends out and survive.
Except Barb.
Poor Barb.
Imagine what the Foundation would do with the strange, extra-dimensional resources at
their disposal when applying it to the Upside Down.
It’d be the discovery of a brave, strange new world.
Or they’d all get consumed by tendrils.
Either way, I’m down.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - The Thing, from John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Which, as regular contributor to the Foundation, Shaggydredlocks claimed, was a potential project
that he was already working on for his newest addition to the SCP Archives.
The Thing embodies everything that the SCP Foundation is about.
Sound science, an alien lifeform - and a completely terrifying evolutionary concept - and it slots
in perfectly right between the likes of SCP-2075 and SCP-610.
The Thing is an extremely hostile shape-shifting extraterrestrial organism, that has the ability
to assimilate other life forms in order to survive and spread itself.
As the 1982 film alludes to, the original physical characteristics of The Thing are
unknown, and it could have assimilated hundreds, if not thousands of other species before it
crashed on Earth.
And that’s definitely what would happen if it ever got loose, which is exactly why
the Foundation would need to contain it.
After The Thing has assimilated an organism, it is capable of imitating them exactly down
to their memories, characteristics and mannerisms.
When a part of The Thing becomes cut in town, both of those pieces become their own creatures
and operate separately.
It’s a science-fiction horror concept that continues to propagate its way across the
genre - just like the amorphous, hostile, alien lifeform that it is - and it’d be
right at home locked away in the SCP Foundation.
Well - there we have it folks, our top 5 list of the Scariest Items That Should Be In The
SCP Foundation.
I say should, in the vague hope that one day, they’ll be locked away and we’ll all be
safe and sound.
Why don’t you let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below.
Before we depart, let’s read out some of your most terrifying comments from over the
past few days.
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straight fire.
Keep it up pal.
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