8 Most Disturbing Horror Short Movies
2. Rakka
Produced by Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios and helmed by the man himself, Rakka was one of several sci-fi horror shorts funded by the District 9 director’s film company. First airing on Youtube and later streaming on Netflix, Rakka stars an excellent Sigourney Weaver as a scientist trying to usurp the invasion of a sadistic alien race.
Throughout its 22 minute runtime, the aliens, known as the Klum, are seen to kill, enslave and torture humanity seemingly just for banter. Assuming a species is intelligent enough to make it to earth and telepathically control minds, they do not need to enslave humanity but choose to do so anyway.
Even the remaining humans of the story are shown to be jaded, psychopathic a-holes who care more about destroying the aliens than meaningfully saving their own kind from this dystopic nightmare.
A disturbing vision of our near future and mean spirited to a level bordering the absurd, Rakka really drives home the idea of hostile alien civilizations and what that could mean for our world. Violent colonization is a running theme in much of Blomkamp’s work and this, whilst about as subtle as a steam train, is no different. If you love discussions of the Fermi Paradox and the DarkForest Theory then this film reads like a flashing red warning sign.