Aliens have been one of the main themes of popular movies since the 1950s. Over the years, with the advancement of film technology and special effects, humans and aliens have clashed more and more frequently, and more and more alien creatures have surprised and frightened us.
As aliens (or monsters) continue to descend on Earth, when two different species meet, the situation is often not optimistic. Probably because we're a very warlike and violent species ourselves, and we project this vice onto other potential beings in the universe, we see that most of the aliens in the movies are deadly and terrible killing machines. However, usually in critical moments of survival, the people of the earth can always turn defeat into victory.
With the release of a new edition of Predator this week, let's take a look at a series of the most dangerous alien creatures that humanity has encountered in the movie. Most of these alien creatures look like monsters in horror movies, and some have few weaknesses, and human blind cats are lucky enough to escape the fate of dead rats.
While the aliens in the Star Wars and Star Trek series are impressive, they are not hired in order to ensure that the alien creatures screened are more representative. After all, in the world settings of these two series, humans are aliens. In addition, alien species like Superman, Thanos, and even Venom in comic book movies are also different.
10. Pod Man - "Magic Flower", "Human Alien", "Alien Invasion", "Fatal Visit"
In Hollywood movies, the pod man has become synonymous with creepy aliens. Based on Jack Finney's classic science fiction thriller Fatal Visit, the alien invasion film is reborn almost every once in a while, and has so far made four different versions of specific eras, of course, the first of which is the most classic.
In Extraterrestrial Magic Flower, after the spores of alien plants land on Earth, they grow into large seed pods, each of which can reproduce a human. Once the pods are fully developed, they absorb every physiological trait, memory, and personality trait of the human victim. The only flaw is that these replicants don't have any emotion. As soon as you fall asleep near the pod, you'll get hit. And it has nothing to do with how long you rest, as long as you close your eyes, you can't escape this fate. The only way to avoid death is not to sleep, or to pray that there are no such alien spores falling around your home.
Like the aliens disguised as humans in John Carpenter's Extreme Space, these alien creatures don't invade or go to war on a large scale with much fanfare, preferring the intrigues and tricks of the dark. And when humans finally perceive and uncover their disguises in fear, the only question left for us is what to do next? Will it accept alien domination, or will it fight back?
9. Chameleon Alien – "Omens"
Just like the alien invasion of Li Daitao in "The Magic Flower outside the sky", the fewer the aliens in the science fiction movie appear, the more silent, in fact, the more people will feel dangerous and terrible. The aliens in Megabyte are like this, humans can't see them because they can become invisible, but not because of the predator-like technological equipment, but because of their chameleon attributes, they can change their skin color and blend into the background.
And even without that skill, director M. Knight Shyamalan was stingy about showing the audience what aliens look like, so it did achieve a good thriller effect. In addition to discoloration and stealth, this alien also carries its own poisonous gas, which can unknowingly wipe out humans. However, the biggest flaw of this alien is that it is afraid of water, and coming to Earth, a blue planet that is mostly covered by water, has doomed their fate.
In addition, the film also deliberately analyzes why aliens do not tend to violently invade the earth with full firepower, but prefer to expand secretly without sound - because they come to the earth basically for a purpose, for the resources of the earth, or simply to occupy the earth, the invasion of force will destroy the earth, and even trigger humans to start nuclear weapons to destroy the earth. This is clearly not to their wishes – unless, like the Predator, they come to Earth only to meet the needs of hunting!
8. Clover Monster - The Clover Files
The Clover Monsters are basically like Space Godzilla, not only as tall as skyscrapers, but also as if conventional artillery weapons will not cause damage to it, and what is more frightening is that they are only the advance force of an alien invasion. These monsters may not have a high IQ, but their power and resistance to blows are amazing enough to make up for the lack of intelligence.
The Clover Files handles it very well in creating a post-apocalyptic atmosphere of monster invasion, where a few alien monsters turn New York City upside down, and many people are eaten or trampled to death, which is a massacre. And as long as you get close to these monsters, you will not be able to escape death, because from these monsters there are constantly falling "small" alien parasites, and any moving living creatures will be attacked by them. If you get entangled in one of them, you will soon burst out and die.
Admittedly, The Clover Files were successful in creating an atmosphere of fear, but the Clover Monsters don't rank high in this article because humans have found a way to deal with them— in the Pacific Rim series, we've created our own monsters, the Mech Warriors, against the various escalating monsters that also serve as advances for alien invasions. Oye!
7. Nomadic Aliens – Independence Day
Another group of armed overlord aliens flew straight in and announced their takeover of the human world. The result was the first failure, the second comeback and the failure, but their successive losses did not diminish their danger. According to the setting, this alien race of interstellar expansion was in search of minerals, and they razed one planet after another until Earth became the only planet that successfully resisted their attacks.
Independence Day alien force is truly devastating, capable of wiping out an entire city in a matter of seconds. Their advanced technology made it invincible, and almost succeeded in conquering the earth almost unscathed. Unfortunately, they have a technical flaw: the digital virus on Earth can paralyze their systems. It turns out that although these aliens have high technology, their IQ is still not enough; Their arrogance foreshadows their demise.
Such alien invaders who rely on extraterrestrial high technology and absolute force to invade The Earth are often lost to humble technical problems and even some funny factors. For example, the aliens who control the time cycle in "Edge of Tomorrow" end up being treated by the hero and heroine in their human ways, resetting the time so that they all lose. The predators of the tyrannical and murderous aliens in Martians Playing Earth turn out to be music. The aliens in War of the Worlds who nearly exterminated humans couldn't stand up to the bacteria on Earth. It seems that Earth is really not suitable for aliens.
6. Decepticon - Transformers
In the long struggle with Optimus Prime and The Autobots, the Decepticons have left an indelible mark on human history, making humans aware of their existence in various forms. Their purpose is sometimes mysterious, and most of the time it's just to find all the sources of fire to gain unlimited power, or just to rule or destroy the earth.
The Decepticon is almost unrivaled in the Cybertron Universe. Admittedly, they will also be defeated, but their innate combat effectiveness makes it perfectly capable of fighting against the human army. And they are able to transform into any form of vehicle, perfectly integrated into our environment, making them difficult to track, and can achieve unexpected raids.
However, although the Decepticons have Space-class battleships and can transform into whatever they want or get close to anything they want, they have an important weakness, which is that they should not get in trouble with the Autobots, their allies of the Earthlings and Earthlings.
5. Bug Clan - Galaxy Team
The Arachnids in the Galactic Squad series, although similar in appearance to the arachnids on Earth, are very different. In addition to being larger, the Zerg not only have high intelligence, but also have complex ethnic classes, complete combat classes, super combat effectiveness and fertility, almost all the planets they conquer are like a massacre, and the indigenous races are almost completely extinct.
The Zerg Empire is made up of multiple star systems, and its territory is still expanding due to its super reproductive speed and evolutionary ability, as well as its instinctive desire to expand abroad. Plasma worms in combat classes can shoot spores or burning fireballs into orbit, colonizing other planets.
Until they invaded the territory of mankind, the protracted war between man and worm broke out. Although at the beginning of the war, the unexpected human race was gradually defeated and suffered heavy casualties, after mastering the enemy situation, the human race began a full-scale counterattack. After all, bugs with a perfect population social system are still bugs in the end, no matter how big they are, they will annoy us, and the insecticide management is enough.
4. Alien - Alien
As one of the deadliest monsters in film history, aliens are not only terrifying in appearance, but also very dangerous. They are capable of reproducing at an astronomical rate, can turn any living organism into a host, and add another member to their legion of killers, and the Aliens are born ready for battle, as good as commandos in surprise ambushes. If left unchecked, they could soon spread across the galaxy like a giant swarm of killer cockroaches.
These monsters are powerful, vicious, and extremely cunning, able to adapt to almost any climate or atmosphere. They don't know fear or pity, and are born perfect killing machines. They are used to lurking in the shadows, attacking at the most unexpected times. And you don't dare hurt them, because their acidic blood may splash on you and make you suffer before you die.
Since aliens have basically no weaknesses, and few people can withstand their attacks, they are a nightmare within a nightmare. But it's not without predators either—hunting aliens is a required course for predators to declare adulthood.
3. Strange Shape - "Strange Shape"
In the face of the mysterious alien, you at least know that there is this killing monster, but if you change to a strange shape, you will not be able to detect it at all, even if you are aware of it, because it can disguise itself as any person it has touched, and can become your friends, family, or even yourself!
As seen in John Carpenter's The Strange Form and the original Strange Man, the Strange Shape fell on our planet long ago, freezing itself under the ice, waiting for the ignorant Earthlings to release it from hibernation. In both films, Strange Shape is trying to build a spaceship, and it's unclear whether it's going to fly into space or land on a densely populated continent and dominate our world, but one thing is for sure, this creature is deadly, and no one is spared everywhere it goes.
This deformed monster is able to mimic any other creature perfectly, and the moment it hits you, you've been infected and reduced to a monster. Even if the deceptive trick is discovered, the monster can easily tear each other apart with its Cthulhu monster tentacles and sharp teeth. It can spread like a parasite, and the efficient infection rate is enough for it to quickly devour the entire world. Although it will also be killed, in fact it is basically irrelevant, because the panic and suspicion it has caused has been enough to disintegrate humanity from within.
2. Calvin – Alien Awakening
This alien lifeform, presumably a close relative of Venom, is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous and terrifying alien creatures ever created. As you can see in Alien Awakening, Calvin started out as a tiny cell that was frozen on the surface of Mars for millions of years. After being transported to the space station by the space probe, Calvin quickly woke up and began to attack the astronauts who greeted him with joy, and eventually the staff of the space station was spared, and Calvin was able to descend on the earth where humans live.
Perhaps Calvin is not inherently evil, but is governed by an insatiable desire to devour and grow, and it carries out killing expansion in the name of its own survival; Humans happen to be the most recent food source. Calvin is a creature with human intelligence. It burrows into or devours the victim's body, absorbs and swallows everyone it encounters, and as the killing continues it gets bigger and stronger.
Calvin is almost indestructible, and his only weakness is his dependence on oxygen. Unfortunately, the Earth it landed on was an oxygen-rich planet, and Calvin might never stop killing every life on Earth. Still, maybe not, after all, Venom and Parasite have proven that any alien life that relies on human symbiosis or parasitism will eventually be transformed by humans.
1. Predator - Predator
Humans have always thought of themselves as hunters at the top of the biological chain, able to hunt anything. As everyone knows, in fact, human beings are also the prey of others, and even the earth is their hunting ground. The Predators have visited our planet many times throughout history, proving time and time again that they are the best hunters in the universe. In the Predator's trophy showroom, Lee is home to the skulls of many of their hunted prey, which they regard as a ritual and have superhuman strength and incredible intelligence, almost invincible; And never run away from challenges.
If you were asked to find someone to deal with the Alien, who would you send? Sigourney Weaver is not impossible, but the best candidate is the Predator. Their technology and strategy far exceeded anything that humans could offer, and killing a swarm of such insect-type trolls was no problem. Every encounter between humans and predators rarely ends well; If you can gain their respect and survive, that means you are also quite threatening.
Even so, we have to thank the Bushido spirit of this murderous species, who only chose the strongest opponents to challenge, not eliminate us all. In fact, they may be using stealth techniques that are proud of and make them even more dangerous and frightening, hiding behind you, waiting to remove your head and pull out your spine.