10 More Sci-Fi Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

James Cameron had a bad year at the Academy Awards in 2009. Not only was Avatar upstaged in terms of dramatic quality by The Hurt Locker (which just so happened to be directed by his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow), the legendary director arguably didn't even produce the best sci-fi-centric picture of the year. That prestigious honor went to Neill Blomkamp's triumphant masterpiece District 9.

Blowing modest expectations out of the water, the film was a critical and commercial smash hit. Blomkamp's offering depicts an alternate version of reality, one in which extra-terrestrials landed on Earth. These visitors from outer space are shunned in a depressingly morbid parallel of the real life migration crisis. Contemptuously dubbed Prawns, the aliens are treated in barbarically sub-human fashion and segregated to an enormous sprawling shanty town - the film's titular District 9.

Under such a ruthless status quo, it is not an exaggeration to suggest that becoming a Prawn is a fate far worse than death. Regrettably for Sharlto Copley's Wikus, this is exactly the situation he finds himself in after becoming exposed to an alien liquid. The mild-mannered employee from the Department of Alien Affairs soon discovers how quickly human beings will turn on their own kind as he is mercilessly turned on and hunted by members of his own species, looking to exploit his condition to their advantage.

While District 9 is primarily a sci-fi movie, the implications of Wikus' fate are so horrifying that he merits inclusion on this list.