Sci-Friday is back and We're bringing the Violence!
Here are My Top 5 most violent Sci-Fi films and TV shows of all time.
Welcome back to another stellar edition of Sci-Friday! Not only is today the day where we come together to glorify everything Sci-Fi, but it’s also this newsletter’s 100th published piece!
Over the last few months, many writers have graciously contributed to this day that we call Sci-Friday. Let’s take the time now to acknowledge a few of these contributors,
If you haven’t checked out any of these authors I suggest that you do so.Here are My Top 5 most violent Sci-Fi films and TV shows of all time.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Whether it’s considered to be classic Sci-Fi or not, one thing for sure is that it’s completely dystopian. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess.
This film follows Alex, a charismatic psychopath who likes to roam the streets of near-future Britain consuming a drug-laden beverage called “Milk-Plus” committing what he refers to as “Ultra Violence” all while listening to Beethoven.
Alex is the leader of a small gang of homicidal maniacs whom he calls his droogs. Alex and his droogs make their way through society committing horrible crimes until he is captured and forced into an attempted rehabilitation using an experimental psycho conditioning method called the “Ludovico Technique” that tried to break Alex of his violent ways.
Total Recall (1990)
It’s 2084, Mars has been colonized and Earth has been reduced to a polluted wasteland, I guess we don’t clean up our act in the future, at least not according to this film.
Douglas Quaid played by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger is a construction worker who dreams of visiting Mars. He visits Rekall, a company that sells implanted memories, to experience Mars without ever having to travel there, but something isn’t right….
Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.
Heavy Metal (1981)
Sex, Violence, and you guessed it, Heavy Metal make up this 1981 classic. This film is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories brought together by a glowing green orb called the Loc-Nar, which represents the sum of all evils and you can’t get more evil than Heavy Metal.
The film begins with an astronaut returning home by piloting a 1960 Corvette sports car from a space shuttle back to Earth. He brings home a glowing green orb for his daughter, The orb vaporizes the astronaut and reveals its evil influence.
This one’s hard to explain in detail, just give it a watch. You will wonder WTF just happened but sometimes that’s a good thing.
Twisted Metal (2023)
Twisted Metal? Yep, they turned that old-school Playstation video game into a pretty badass post-apocalyptic TV show.
John Doe is a milkman or courier with amnesia who is given a chance at a better life if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. If he completes the impossible task he will be allowed to enter the gates of the utopian city.
On the way to deliver this mystery package, John Doe encounters a world of walled-off cities and complete insanity. He teams up with a car thief who is on a mission of her own, he also has to deal with a psychotic killer clown.
Watch this one and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by this crazy ride.
Demolition Man (1993)
We are on a violent dystopian trip today and Demolition Man is no exception, let’s keep this futuristic train rolling.
Why does it always seem that whenever humans attempt to make a “Utopia” it turns out to be a utopia for the few and the many are left to fend for themselves in an Earthly version of hell?
In Los Angeles, it’s the future and crime doesn’t exist until a criminal named Simon Phoenix played by Westley Snipes is thawed out of his cryogenic state. As Simon begins to wreak havoc all over the city It is up to Sergeant John Spartan played by Sylvester Stallone, a police officer who was also cryogenically frozen, to stop Phoenix and save the city.
Congratulations on #100!
So cool on 100!
Violence in sci-fi isn't an area I would have thought about any time soon, but I think it's a really interesting rabbit hole. Total Recall kind of helped shape my life a little as a teenager. I can only imagine how many times I watched that scene where Ahhhnold gets that thing removed through his nose! Great, classic stuff.