Writing Bloody- Aliens

Once upon a time, there was a girl. That very girl woke up one night and could see, but not move. She did; however, freak the hell out. She flailed her arms and legs until they finally moved. Then, she did the only thing left to do…check outside to see if the mothership was beaming up any alien life forms.

If you haven’t figured out yet that it was me…it was. I thought aliens had come to either take me away or implant their spawn in my womb. Being older, I know that there were no aliens that night.

With The 5th Wave coming out next week, I can’t help but wonder again about their existence and their contribution to the horror genre. There have been so many movies and TV shows depicting alien life forms is various ways, which I find scary as hell.

There are five alien movies that I feel are the most thought provoking and the scariest.

A farm family wakes up to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard and are told that extraterrestrials are responsible. The circles begin appearing all over the world as the family grapples with the fact that Earth is being invaded.

***Yeah. Enough said. I know there are people out there who have figured out how to create crop circles, but still…

Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich), a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.

***This is the scariest! I mean, abductions? 

To the students at Harrington High, the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a little odd, but lately they’ve been behaving positively alien. Controlled by otherworldly parasites, the faculty try to infect students one by one. Cheerleader Delilah (Jordana Brewster), football player Stan (Shawn Hatosy), drug dealer Zeke (Josh Hartnett) and new girl Marybeth (Laura Harris) team up with some of their other classmates to fight back against the invaders.

***As campy as this movie was, I still wonder if there aren’t possessed people walking the Earth right now. This idea is similar to the one in The 5th Wave too. 

I don’t think that The 5th Wave is really considered horror, rather it’s science fiction, but the concept is one that fills me with fear and dread–isn’t that really what horror is anyway?

xoxo,

A

Thank you to IMBD.com for the use of official photos and Google for the summaries.