10 Sci-Fi Movies Too Scary To Finish

It wouldn’t be a proper list of scary sci-fi flicks without at least a cursory appearance from the video nasty list, the infamous set of horror/ sci-fi/ exploitation/ assorted genre fare which squeamish scissor-happy British censors inadvertently made famous in the early eighties when they banned any of them from being screened or sold to the public.

Amongst the more critically acclaimed (or at least accepted) of these titles was Xtro, which sees some poor bloke abducted by aliens during a countryside sojourn, reappearing a few years later via a seriously disturbing rebirth and insinuating himself in the life of his ex wife and son, both of whom have done their best at moving on in his absence.

Of course, said bloke is now some sort of grotesque part human alien-hybrid, as evidenced by his telekinetic antics—oh, and the film’s shockingly explicit bouts of body horror, some real, some nightmares, and some unclear, which make up the closing act and make sure most viewers will bolt well before things reach their bloody, messy, and bloody impossible to decipher end.