What are your favorite horror/science fiction movie themes?

I just want to say that there is no doom and gloom in this thread (depending on how you look at it haha) and no conspiracies. Since Halloween is right around the corner, I thought I would put up some of my favorite horror/science fiction horror movie themes and was wondering what everyone's favorite was if you have one. Thanks, and enjoy!(It doesnt matter if the movie is cheesy or not. sometimes the music makes the movie!

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Resident Evil!! I am a huge fan of the games and movies, I've played the games from the very first one and loved every one of them. And I dig the movies too, I have a 3D setup at home and watching RE Afterlife in 3D is darned near orgasmic. Love it!

As far as classics, I'd have to give a nod to the 1963 movie "The Haunting". That movie scared the snot out of me when I was a kid I watched it not too long ago and was surprised that it actually has held up pretty well to the years.

Evil Dead of course!

Cool thread. I'll be back.

Event Horizon gives both sci fi and horror .

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I'm pretty into an unreliable narrator going into meltdown mode. The question being: is the narrator melting down, or is the world? Kubrick-y visual sensibilities also ding my bell.

Speaking of which, I can't find a screening for this film anywhere, and it's bumming me right the hell out.

Taking its time to establish its characters and plot, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW dodged the bullet of being a bring film. Slowness does not equate to boring, but be sure you’re not watching the film on a lack of sleep or while drunk. Fair warning. The story follows a young woman named Elena (Eva Allen) being held within a sterile room, housed within a massive, futuristic institute. The other central character of the very small cast is a strange authoritarian figure named Barry (Michael Rogers). Barry has an eerie, vaguely transparent obsession with Elena, a fixation that grows in intensity as his character’s own state of mind deteriorates. This facility becomes a character of its own, a seemingly new age center for wellness. Central to this institute is a sort of minimally designed crystal contraption, which is only one of the many ingredients in Cosmatos’ visual concept that can be traced to influential films such as LOGAN’S RUN. Thinking along this same train of thought, the film also has within its experimental husk an array of broader genre influences. Lovingly placed just beneath the surface is the director’s love for ’80s era cinema, particularly the slasher genre, but in a far less traditional embodiment. The film also draws from a more visually identifiable genre classics, such as BLADE RUNNER.

So far as music soundtracks go, Star Wars wins hands down. I bought the soundtracks for IV, V, and VI on CD years ago and I still listen to them.

I came to this thread expecting it to be about plot themes. I was going to say a good, smart, overlaping type time travel movie, like 12 Monkeys.

Anything 'Neo-Gnostic'; The Matrix, or this one...



And also anything that even loosely follows the theme of 'The Most Dangerous Game'. en.wikipedia.org...

This is a really twisted one that I really like...

Good to see some love for In The Mouth of Madness. Severely under-rated horror movie.

I know you meant instrumental themes, but here's my two favorite lyrical themes:

Let's have some music in here, Boiler

Oh, man, the Suspiria theme is so good. I honestly found it scarier than anything in that movie. The way it was matched up with that girl running in the beginning gave me chills.

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