I have no mouth… and I must scream. An exploration of Evolutionary Horror — from the Qu, to the Xenomorphs, to The Last of Us. Welcome to the scariest hidden genre in Sci-Fi.
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If I were to ask you ‘what is the scariest type of science fiction?’ you probably wouldn’t say ‘Evolutionary Horror.’ …Mainly because it’s a name I came up with for this video, but also because it doesn’t sound particularly frightening. Evolution isn’t scary… or is it?

Twisting through the history of sci-fi is a hidden subgenre that derives terror from the altered self — from the uncanny dread of a force beyond our control evolving the human into the inhuman.

So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll uncover the terrors of this category, and dive into the type of sci-fi that I find the most fear-provoking of all…

0:00 Scariest Sci-Fi Genre
0:49 I Have No Mouth…
4:41 Altered States
7:12 Xenomorphs and Necromorphs
10:01 The Thing from Another World
12:20 Annihilation and Cosmic Horror
15:45 The Problem of Zombies
17:27 Return to Slime

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Media Shown: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, All Tommorrows, Altered States, The Sixth Finger (Outer Limits), War Games, Terminator 2, Alien, Dead Space, The Thing, Annihilation, A Quiet Place, Evolution, Night of the Living Dead, The Walking Dead, The Last of Us

♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian

♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow
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