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Science fiction is sensational for a genre which not only explores several delicate issues but attempts to proffer the fundamental reasons behind them. However, I would have you mull over the peculiar twist that takes shape when the storyline of a scifi makes the acquaintance of a shock/suspense plot.
Both genres are masters of their own universes nevertheless, there are such times when a writer crosses the two and creates a sort of art hybrid. The masterpiece which evolves during this literary copulation is something which quickens the human heart to awe. Science fiction with all it's possibilities, limitless multi-verses and travel through time. Horror on the other hand, gripping you by the balls, evoking the worst kind of nightmarish ecstasy, holding its cold claws to the stuff that speeds up your heartbeat and not for the better.
Some of the best science fiction flicks are tinged with horror themes. Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park brought dinosaurs to life. Yet, the weight of the potential disaster, if science decides to delve into such enterprise as pictured in the movie, slides home with relatively greater force because of the horrific content of the story than in spite of it.
The memories carved by images and by implication from Jurassic Park is something that would go to the grave with me. The Resident Evil series is another fine example of a mix of science fiction and horror that hits you on the head with a message of world domination. Just finished watching a scifi film tinged with horror themes and felt compelled to write this.
The next time you watch a scifi flick I challenge you to judge how much themes of the macabre moves the plot, holds you by the hand and leads you into the grave dangers abounding in the subject matter.
Somethings were made to bond.
Keep your pen bleeding.
Akpan
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