How has Sci-Fi changed over time?

 Science Fiction is a genre that has universally ignited and captivated the imaginations of audiences worldwide. It is a genre that strives on fear, with trade-mark characters predominantly associated with the likes of aliens, space and the paranormal. It is created to evoke fear to the audience and condemnation to the unfortunate characters fighting for their lives.
 Here are 3 examples of the Sci-fi genre and how they have differed as time progressed;

The Day The Earth Stood Still
(1951)

The Fourth Kind
(2009)

I Am Legend
(2007)

This film focuses on alien invasions, possibly due to the Cold War which induced avid paranoia of anything not American and highly suspicious unidentified artifacts. Also, a few years before in 1947, America bore witness to the infamous Roswell spacecraft crash, which further increased speculation to UFO conspiracy theories.










Just like 'The day the Earth stood still', this film is based on alien activity but with a more sinister, gut-wrenching twist. The difference is that this time, movie producers have decided to base this on a true story. In parts of this film, the screen is split between the Hollywood remake (starring Milla Jovovich) and real-life recordings of hypnotisms featured in the plot.







Moving away from its alien counterparts, this post-apocolyptic film is about the extinction of human civilisation and one man's mission to create a drug to transform the people of New York from blood-sucking savage zombies. Although this still has the qualities of a typical Sci-fi film, the elements of danger, trepidation, fear and general jump-out-of-your-seat action allows this film to lead towards the horror genre aswell, therefore, producing a new hybrid.