5 Science Fiction Horror Movies To Watch After This Week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – /Film

Unlike the other movies on this list, the crew at the center of "The Thing" didn't go searching for their extraterrestrial invaders. Instead, a team of American researchers in Antarctica are set upon by an extraterrestrial "thing" that acts as a parasite, taking over its host body and mutating it into something much more horrifying. What makes "The Thing" so scary is the very thing that ends up making "All Those Who Wander"so unsettling: it can be nearly impossible to tell who's infected until it's too late. In "The Thing," that means there's no trust among the survivors and they become so paranoid that they end up on a road toward mutual destruction. In "All Those WhoWander," only Hemmer(Bruce Horak) and the one surviving alien from the original ship suffer from infection, but both handle it very differently.

The first alien hides his infection, either intentionally or because of a language barrier, resulting in the baby Gorn erupting from his flesh in a mess of blood and goo. Like so many victims of zombie bites before him, he doesn't tell anyone until it's far too late. Hemmer similarly realizes that he's infected when it's likely too late for him as well, but he takes the honorable way out by plummeting to his death and taking the baby Gorn along with him.

In "The Thing," the men become so worried about allowing the creature to reach civilization that they're willing to face extinction themselves, though they're not nearly as dignified about it. Then again, they face more than just chestbursters; they face chest teeth and having their heads fall off and grow spider legs. Thatmight make a person slightly more unhinged, to say the least.

The season finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" premieres on July 7, 2022, on Paramount+.

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5 Science Fiction Horror Movies To Watch After This Week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - /Film