9 Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Went Too Far

Whatever medium it's being featured in, the wider genre of science fiction allows for a literal endless amount of possibilities.

Sci-fi allows creative minds to head to the stars, to dive to the depths of the ocean, to explore androids, to serve up science lab shenanigans, and anything and everything else in between. And when sci-fi meshes together with horror, that throws up some truly terrifying propositions that, as shown over the decades, can be the stuff of brilliant, twisted nightmares.

The genres of sci-fi and horror dovetail into each other beautifully when done well, and cinema has proven that so many times. Still, there have been those feature films where the world of sci-fi horror has gone a little too far for some audiences.

It's on those moments that the spotlight is on here, as this list is all about the times that sci-fi horror was too crude, too grizzly or simply too outright offensive in what it brought to the silver screen.

With that in mind, then, here are nine such examples of those times when the sci-fi horror corner of film has massively overstepped the line for the tastes of many a moviegoer.

Interspecies erotica, hey? And for those of you who haven't seen Clerks II, interspecies erotica is exactly what you're thinking.

While 1995's Species didn't feature a donkey and its would-be human suitor, what the film did have was a terrifying sex scene between Alfred Molina's Dr. Stephen Arden and Natasha Henstridge's Sil. Of course, there is far more to Sil than simply the visage of former model Henstridge - for she is actually an alien/human hybrid.

Audiences had half-expected such a 'unique' sex scene to take place, for a good chunk of the movie revolves around Sil's desperate need to mate. When she finally finds somebody to bump uglies with, it's Molina's Arden who ends up being Sil's mate of choice.

Pulling a black widow move, Sil soon kills Arden after the deed is done.

This isn't the only chilling, skin-crawling moments of Species, mind. Earlier in the film, we'd see some prick try to rape Sil after she'd decided not to have sex with him once she'd realised he was diabetic. We'd later see Henstridge's character also pretend to be a victim of domestic violence in order to win the sympathy of a woman she'd quickly kidnap and assume the identity of.