 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday. Today marks the beginning of a 12 week season of Top 5 Friday. I will be filming all of these back to back to back and then releasing them, scheduling them to be released over the next 12 weeks. So every single Friday you will have a Top 5 Friday. I got some special stuff coming. I have some guests coming on. Don't worry, it won't just be them. It'll just be guest appearances and then I'll be doing the rest of the video. It's not like they're gonna take over for me or anything like that. So today we are talking about my Top 5 sci-fi horror things, content. I'm gonna be talking about video games, movies and books. The reason for this is, this is one of my number one most requested topics for Top 5 Friday. I haven't gotten to it yet because I don't read a whole lot of sci-fi horror and I don't plan to. So I'm going to use this. I'm going to give you guys a variety of media. At number five. At number five we have The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. This book, there's a lot of stuff that there's a lot of tropes and things that I don't like about sci-fi horror. Same with fantasy. I would much rather watch a movie of sci-fi or fantasy. A sci-fi or fantasy movie. I would much rather watch that than read about it. I'm not exactly sure where it comes from but it bores me to tears when it just drones on and on about either scientific detail or world building and so on and so forth. I'm the type of person I like to be able to imagine. And I also don't want to read about stuff that actually exists. And a lot of sci-fi horror takes place in kind of like a, not alternate reality but it's realistic. And I know that's the exact opposite of what most people say. You gotta make it realistic. If I'm gonna watch sci-fi horror or fantasy or anything of that nature then I want it to be outlandish. That's what I'm looking for. I want it to be utterly implausible because I don't know, just in real history like medieval times interests me more than a fantasy novel and real science interests me but if I want to read real science I'm going to consume non-fiction or whatever. I'm gonna read like textbooks or whatever. That kind of thing. Caitlin Starling did a fantastic job with this book. The characters are what shine the most here for me. These two women, it's only two people in the entire book and they're not even in the same room together. They don't even make contact. And I thought that was amazing. I'm also a big fan of isolation which you will see that it's a running theme here which is funny because I should like more sci-fi horror because most of it is about isolation. But yeah, that's number five. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling at number four. At number four we have a video game. I'm a huge gamer. I love video games. Sci-fi horror video games are few and far between. It shouldn't be off the top of my head. If you don't count doom, a lot of people do. I don't. I think it's just an action game that's set with some horror-ish stuff. It's kind of like calling Twilight horror. Yeah, it has vampires and werewolves, but it's not horror. So Dead Space really scratched that itch for sci-fi horror. It was scary as hell. I liked the sequel. I didn't care too much for the third one. But it was one of those going around with, it's just the way you kill the aliens or whatever they're called. Not Xenomorphs, but whatever they're called. The way you kill them by chopping off the limbs. I thought that was hella brutal. Like it was sometimes when I first started, I was like, oh, I kind of feel bad because it's like I just want to shoot them and have them go away. I don't want to sit here and dismember them. It really got under my skin. And I enjoy things getting under my skin, especially when I'm looking for that kind of experience and Dead Space really struck a chord with me. If you guys would like my favorite video games, like my top five video games, it won't be until after the 12 weeks of course. But if you guys want that, let me know down there in the doobly-doo along with any other suggestions that you have for top five Friday, please do that. Leave all of your suggestions down there. Number three. At number three, we have a tie. I could not pick between these things. You guys can fight down there in the comments if you want to, but I could not pick between these two things. I know one of them. So it's gonna be, they're six. You got six options. You'll be okay. I know there's a lot in the community that one of these gets mentioned anytime anybody brings up sci-fi horror that it is their favorite. The two that are tied for number three here is aliens. Not alien. I don't actually care too much for that one. Aliens, the sequel by James Cameron. And the thing, John Carpenter's The Thing. These two are tied for me at number three. I can watch them both the same amount of times. I can enjoy them separately. I can watch them back to back. These two things, they're on the same level for me. And when I was thinking about it, I was like, I can't really put one above the other. And I want this list to be ranked, you know, five to one. What is that, ascending or descending? It's probably ascending because you're going up to one or down to whatever. Anyways, but yeah, aliens and The Thing. I like them both equally. So I think my favorite part about aliens is how they manage to still make it scary and be an action movie. While with The Thing, there's this dread involved. But it's the same kind of dread that you get with aliens. You have a group of people. You can't really trust everybody. I think they're on par with each other. But certainly, if you be respectful, but certainly fight it out down there in the doobly doo, just be respectful to one another. No, oh my God, this is so much better, you're an idiot. Number two. At number two, we have a short story by Stephen King and that is The Jant. This story always unsettles me. It always has unsettled me. It's the, and I kind of feel like it's a prequel to the number one thing on this list. I would love to talk to you guys about this down in the doobly doo. So maybe spoilers for The Jant and number one. But I feel like The Jant is a prequel to number one. I think, not canon, of course, but I think you could put them in the same universe. I'm probably giving away what number one is, but we'll get to it in a second. The Jant is so terrifying because you have no idea where they went. I think that's the most important thing, but for something to be that terrifying to have broken somebody, for them to have been lost, for who knows how long, wherever they were. That's just an utterly horrifying concept to me. Number one. And at number one, we have one of my favorite top five horror movies of all time, not even sci-fi horror, but top five horror movies of all time. It is Event Horizon. I think that The Jant is the, it's a prequel, it's not, it's a spiritual prequel to Event Horizon. I would love to know if the writer of the screenplay, the story was a fan of King's short story. I would love to find that out because they are so close together that I feel like it inspired. And I hope that's the case because my top two favorite sci-fi horror things is The Jant and Event Horizon. My favorite scene in Event Horizon and what I think puts it above even aliens and the thing. I know people are gonna be mad about this. I have differing opinions and some people get upset. I can't do anything about that, that's my opinion. It's just what I like over what I, I like this thing more. But the scene is when the dude finds the bomb. It is one of the best, I know I'm about to die faces ever filmed. It's an amazing, amazing movie. It's probably, it's probably in my top five movies of all time. It's just one of those ones where I, I saw the article in Fangoria when I was a kid. May I, I can't remember exactly when it, I feel like I was a teenager because my mom had to take me. And we both enjoyed the movie. But we went to go see things like Predator together and things like that with me over in the corner, you know, looking through my eyes going, it's only movie, it's only movie, it's only movie. But I read a Fangoria article on it. I saw some images. I was like, this is my aesthetic. This is what I want to see on film. And I watched the film and it lived up to every single bit of the hype that I had, I had given it. No other film has ever come close to being as good as I thought it was going to be as Event Horizon. So that's it for this episode of Top Five Friday. Please let me know your top five favorite sci-fi horror media down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U. It's been another Top Five Friday. I almost forgot the name of the show. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.