10 Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules

A rare remake which managed to wholly outstrip its original inspiration, Halloween director John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing pushed the boundaries of what effects could achieve, whilst its enigmatic ending left viewers not sure who (if anyone) to root for.

Combining the aforementioned seventies paranoia with the incredible advancements in special effects technology achieved by a then only-23 year old Rob Bottin, The Thing brought sci-fi horror as a genre into far darker and more disturbing territory than even the likes of Alien and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers managed to achieve.

By the close of Carpenter's horrifically gory cinematic nightmare, there were no unambiguously "good" characters left to root for and the audience was left with no clue who to trust, a twist which epitomised the politically charged bleakness and anger that pervaded many of Carpenter's subsequent films as well as the sci fi horror genre as a whole.