10 Horror Movies That Brutally Punish Your Curiosities

5. Life

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Daniel Espinosa's Life is one of the great sci-fi horrors of the modern era, but it's also a prime example of how sometimes it's not always a wise idea to go prodding and poking around in the great unknown up in the stars.

Granted, the whole point of the Pilgrim 7's trip to Mars was to explore the possibility of the existence of alien life. So, when the International Space Station retrieve P7's samples, all eyes are on whether or not there is now evidence of extra-terrestrial activity.

Upon reviving a dormant cell, exobiologist Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) soon has "Calvin" on his hands; a multi-celled organism who is able to change its cellular structure and specialisation at a moment's notice.

The discovery of Calvin obviously goes spectacularly wrong, with this lifeform causing all kinds of chaos, killing the vast majority of the ISS crew, causing one crew member to be fired into the depths of space, and Calvin itself eventually crash-landing on Earth - where it's presumed this otherworldly being will have devoured the entire planet.

If Calvin was left dormant, all would've been fine. Instead, Dr. Derry's decision to shock it out of hibernation caused Calvin to view mankind as a threat to its existence.

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