10 Scariest Opening Sci-Fi Movie Scenes Ever

It's understandable that Gullermo Del Toro was disappointed with the results of his first English language film, Mimic. Arguments on the set between he and producer Bob Weinstein were frequent, and the visionary helmer wasn't allowed a final cut until a DVD release years later, adding six minutes of footage he couldn't include in the theatrical.

Despite all that and Del Toro's best efforts, the movie is a fairly derivative, standard monster movie script with little innovation. There's nothing really fresh, but the plot is at least somewhat intriguing. After a brief introduction explaining a new virus is being spread by cockroaches, killing children en masse, entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) finds a solution: starve them to death.

Three years later, however, the new species of cockroach has, as Jeff Goldblum says, found a way, using its ability to mimic its prey (in this case, appearing like a figure in a trenchcoat) before attacking. They're enormous, wreaking havoc in the New York subway.

It's to Del Toro's credit that the film is scary at all, never more than during the opening attack on an unwitting priest. He's suddenly snatched away by an unknown assailaint, the only witness an autistic child who can't express what happened verbally. It later breaks horror movie taboos, killing young children.