The rape tree is an underused plot element. Loads of movies would be improved by having rape trees.
Empire Strikes Back - Instead of the cave fight with Vader, imagine how much better it would be if Luke had to fight off a Rape Tree.
Predator - Arnold wrestling a rape tree to save the Asian woman.
Indiana Jones - Instead of a boring Indian tribe, picture Indiana running from a whole bunch of rape trees
Annihilation - Having the scare bear AND rape trees would improve this movie immeasurably. Who wouldn't want to see Natalie Portman raped by a tree?
Star Trek III - Scenes on the Genesis Planet were very boring. Would be much improved by rape trees.
All the stupid female reboot movies would be improved by rape trees. I could go on and on.
Or rape aliens. That's untapped potential.
You'd think there'd be a lot of those but there's only 2 franchises with anything remotely resembling a budget unless you count aliens.
Species and the Canadian hand me down decoys. Problem is they are not really scary for the most part.
Species may be the most fucked up fetish movie series ever made, but they don't really lean enough into the psychological aspects of it. The first 3 don't explore how horrific it would be to be a decent human being suddenly affected with what amounts to an alien STD and the lifespan of a lemming. 1 is just a sex slasher movie, 2 dabbles in it, but is overcome by the gory tits spectacle of it all and 3 is just stupid. Frankly the novel adaptations (by yvonne navarro ) Did a much better job of drilling in how horrific it all was and had much tighter writing.
4 is the only film that approached the horror in an interesting way, with what amounts to an ex mad scientist becoming a father and raising a good half alien chick. Unfortunately her biology kicks in and turns her into a uncontrollable monster while also slowly killing her.
She wants to die, dad can't let that happen, so he goes off to Mexico to meet his scientist buddy Malcom reed from star trek enterprise. He's a complete scumbag that rents out his genetic lab to sell clones of people's pets and repeatedly clone a couple of sterile half breed workers/ sex slaves. Shit goes Frankenstein and you see a good man fall apart as his love enables evil.
Decoys is about a couple college dudes getting catfished by technically male aliens who need to shove their eggs down their throat.... It's stupid.
I Think it would be interesting if they brought something like species back as some kind of super solider serum gone wrong. Like maybe draw from the real life stuff about flying men in the Philippines abducting woman and go nuts with it.
One of the more interesting aspects never touched upon was the idea this DNA strand or whatever was handed out by aliens to evolve and help humanity. That was a real throwaway line but you could make something thoughtful and horrifying if aliens genuinely tried to adapt us to a way of life we are not suited for or comfortable with. Also there's the possibility that other governments even less tact then America gets there's hands on the DNA and starts playing God.
I think you could make something genuine and terrifying if you played around with it.
