10 Sci-Fi Movies Too Scary To Finish
2. The Road
Adapted from critically acclaimed American author Cormac
McCarthy of Blood Meridian fame, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi from The Proposition
helmer John Hillcoat is about as optimistic and cheery as that dream pairing
suggests. For those unfamiliar with the work of either creator, suffice it to
say that The Road’s grim travelogue follows a slowly starving father and son as
the two scavenge a tragically pathetic existence across a ravaged, barely recognizable
America which has been reduced to a desolate, almost uninhabitable wasteland.
You may have noticed we said almost uninhabitable, since there are a few fellow survivors straggling around the otherwise deserted nation.
Cannibals!
Once the film takes a detour into the environs of their dank human abbatoir, you the viewer are left with a tough decision. Either hit eject, never discover how the story ends, and be able to sleep again some time within the month, or steel your nerves and make it through this shockingly grim sequence by trying to imagine just who thought it was a good idea to put this text on school curriculums.