10 Most Remarkable Sci-Fi Movie Opening Scenes

10. Losing His Mind - Scanners

David Cronenberg isn't going to ever make a movie that bores you, and if you need any proof of that - you're welcome to watch the first ten minutes of Scanners. Infamous for the exploding head scene, the film opens up with a scruffy looking man attempting to scavenge food, which two women soon openly judge him for.

Of course, what they don't know is that he's a telekinetic prodigy with the power to kill people simply by looking at them, so it's a classic lesson that you should never judge a book by its cover. Not unless you want to be quite literally mind-f*cked, anyway.

After introducing such powerful people exist, we get a seemingly benign lecture on the power of Scanners, to which a ConSec employee wishes to demonstrate his mind-reading abilities. Again, bad choices are made, since there's someone far more powerful in the room that causes his head to shower the nearby vicinity with its contents in excellently gory fashion. Mind readers really are a menace to society.

Scanners' opening has got everything: unpredictability, investment in a unique narrative, and of course, plenty of blood and goopy bits to cause a scene.