This Halloween, Spacedock breaks down the spookiest sci-fi spaceship interiors that have made for great horror settings. #halloween
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Wraith ships from stargate atlantis literally have fog and look like a dead haunted forest in general
Borg Cubes.
Whether you have visited them in QWho? in The Next Generation or First Contact or the Voyager Borg episodes. Everytime you realise you could be assimilated, a real threat of a kind of living death. The loss of everything you are. They are creepy, powerful and they could show up in orbit of your homeworld, destroy your civilisation and turn you into a mindless automaton. And if you are damaged, vaporised.
Excuse me, but how can we forget 'Dark Star' with the commander of the ship already dead when the movie begins, being stored in cryogenic suspension and still able to hold down a conversation with the other crew members. Not to mention the planet destroying bomb with the identity crisis, and the beach ball . . . wtf was going on with the beach ball ?
Captain Harlock's Arcadia ! Especially the one from the 2013 movie.
Sentient, self regenerating ghost ship and armed to the teeth.
Durable to the point it can ram through other ships.
Powered by dark matter engines and crewed by pirates.
As many commented, the Shadow ships from B5 are surprisingly not on this list. Just looking at them is a nightmare. But then, we never did see their insides.
But, one of the ships that I don't see on the list or in comments as I scrolled are the Stargate:Atlantis hiveships, at least when we were first introduced to them. The organic nature of the ship coupled with beings that will suck the life out of you with their hands was definitely very unsettling.
Personally I always thought that the G.F.S. Valhalla from Metroid Prime 3 made for a solid horror location. Given your familiarity with the Olympus it has the aesthetic of something you know while maintaining a eerily uncomfortable "not quite right" feeling throughout the ship.
The Black Hole is a fantastic film.
Space Hulks from 40K are maybe not spooky, but terrifying nonetheless. It’s a giant mishmash of ships from across the galaxy and all the factions getting smashed together in the ftl dimension and they can be gigantic. We’re talking extinction level asteroids that make the Dino killer look like a sand grain. There’s a game where one gets detected about to smash into a planet and destroy or at least kill all life on it, and people have to be sent in.
That is the real terror, imagine going in something that big it makes a planet(a giant space rock) shudder. Who knows what’s in there, and how you’re going to survive what survives in there. And also the ftl dimension doesn’t exactly have a sense of structural engineering so there’s no guarantees about stability, a wall or ceiling could fall on you or the floor could just break and you could fall onto some other faction’s ship’s spiky bit or something worse. Emperor protect you…
Any Warhammer 40k space halk! Yes I'm aware that I missed spelled.
My personal honourable mentions: (not necessarily list material, nothing will beat Nostromo for me TBH):
– Anubis from "Expanse", one of the best parts of the book, from the prologue seeing it from Julie's perspective, to the first time Roci's crew get on it's a masterpiece in both books and series. (Books are better tho')
– Sevastopol station (not a ship, I know) from "Alien: Isolation" going through a station, that by and large just hours ago was teeming with life, people and seeing the lonely corridors and "perfectly ordinary, but just not quite right" parts of it is great.
– Borg Cubes (Star Trek) I mean… need I say more? The utter creepiness of the drones not reacting unless provoked just makes it work. Also, Gomtuu from TNG always creeped the F out of me. As did USS discovery in that one super-far-future episode where she got sentient.
– Discovery (2001/2010 Space Odyssey)… because HAL. Though it might be bc. of the age of the film.
Also there is this one Love, Death, Robots episode with the alien scrapyard…
These "Top 5" videos are mostly unparalleled in stupidity. Some material is snipped together and commented on in a stupid way.
Here it is completely different. An exciting selection that shows knowledge. Someone here has understood the genre of science fiction and knows how to put his enthusiasm into good words. Comprehensible and inspiring. It makes you want to see the films.
My personal favourite is still the Nostromo. 😉
Muy interesante las naves espaciales
Event Horizon
"USG ISHIMURA had a bit of an incident" Understatement of the century!
Shivan Ships form Freespace 1-2
I put a vote on the predecessor of USG Nishimura: The UNN Von Braun and UNN Rickenbacker from System Shock 2 (I don't count Citadel Station from SS1 because that is techically a space station, not a spaceship).
Never thought I’d here a grown man say “spookums”
Well done Sir, I like all your spooky ships list.
3. Leviathan from Starcraft game
2. HK (Hunter Killer) from Terminator
1. Derelict ship from Alien
Fire in the sky
I would have put the Shadow vessels from Babylon 5 somewhere in there.
Since you made mention of it. The scariest ship for me are the ships from Warhammer 40k (I think Phalanx or Imperial Navy Retribution). Just reading how one operates from the novels sends chills down my spine. Great list! Keep up the great channel.
definitely agree with your rank 1…
The RAS Prosecutor, an Acclamator cruiser overrun by Trandoshans, everywhere dead Clones and the collectordroids that want to make a hole in your head.
GFS Valhalla from Metroid was also pretty scary.
I expected the Event Horizon. I expected the Nostromo. I did not expect the Ishimura until you brought up Mass Effect because I figured it would be limited to movie ships. That said, I 100% agree. I'm relatively immune to survival horror but Dead Space just hit different and I'm looking forward to the remaster.
To bad Darth Nihilus's Ship The Ravager isn't yet on the big screen.
Just started watching the vid but I'm guessing Event Horizon was the spookiest, modeled on a gothic cathedral and possessed by a demon after coming back from hell. . That film still creeps me out.
The Shadow vessels from Babylon 5, especially their battleships.
Arcadia from the captain harlock space pirate franchise
#1 Spooky ship: ANY Borg ship!
Ok, let's pause and lay some bets less than 2 minutes in. Agree on The Black Hole's Cygnus … and highlights my age for things ilke this can be personalized by time and place. For me growing up in time of only 3 TV networks, no recording devices and movies only in theaters … add a limited exposure to media in 1960s vs today and one that comes to mind is the creepy derelict ship from Lost In Space (TOS) that grabbed the Jupiter II, clam-shelled open to swallow it. Onward!
Would have also mentioned the Von Braun from System Shock 2 (with the music turned off of course).
The Spaceship from Life force
your list is genuine , respects the promise of the premise and is still way better than any list out there, like that "looper" bullshit channel
Lexx
And what about Von Braun from System Shock 2? Dead Space and Ishimura wouldn't exist without it.
Dead Space really nailed the spookiness vibe, for me. When I first played it I even had a piece of sweetcorn pop from my bum. I'd got shorts on as it was a hot summer day, so I left the piece of sweetcorn on the chair.
As I went home I pointed to my chair and said "I'll leave that. I don't want it".
My mate looked at it, frowned, and asked what it was. I pointed at my bum as I left the room and said "it came out of there. You can have it. If you don't want it, throw it away, I won't mind".
Just then his dog, Keith, a tiny chihuahua, walked up to the chair and ate the piece of vegetable, looking gratefully at me as he enjoyed the small morsel of food. My mate frowned at me as I said "see? He gets it!"
That was a good day. Thanks for the reminiscence.
I've always thought the Zelbinion from Farscape was pretty creepy too!
i liked black hole:)
dead space 1 . . .
If video game ships are spooky, the Beast Mothership from Homeworld Cataclysm.
ALIEN. Best movie of ALL TIME
also species 8472 ships are creepy as plus they are planet busters.
Event Horizon is one of the few horror movies that actually scared me.
please! none of these have even the slightest chance in comparrison to the occurance border from ”all guardsmen party”. no ship is as on the verge of just falling apart, dropping into hell, and generally just not working as that one
Does anyone remember the prison ship from the mid 80's television miniseries Something Is Out There?
I just want to mention that one because it was the first spooky ship I saw before I watched ALIEN and not too many people remember that series.
The shadow ships from Babylon 5 are some seriously scary looking ships!!
Thank you SO MUCH for the shout-out to the USG Ishimura. This game blew my mind when it came out, and still is a masterpiece of making a spaceship a character in and of itself. Deep Space never gets old, and a great part of that is the gritty realism of a working ship caught up in a nightmare. I don't think any game or movie has done it better. I'll never forget playing Deep Space 2, and the moment when the Ishimura is revealed, knowing I'm going to have to go back inside. The anticipation and outright dread of that thought alone, even before you actually went in, says all you need to know.
B5 Shadow shipsl
What about the "Spider" ships from Babylon 5, as well as the living/sentient Vorlon ships from the same series? They should at least get a mention, surely 🙂