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  • The Eden crew waking up in their hypersleep capsules after being ejected into space by a mad crewman. Picture it: you're trapped inside a tiny metal coffin hurtling into the depths of space. You're awake and aware of your fate, but you can't do anything. No one is coming for you. No one can hear you scream. And the life support in your pod will last just long enough to prolong the inevitable.
  • The general atmosphere of the movie is pretty nightmarish: you wake up to find yourself alone in a gigantic metallic structure with tight corridors plunged into darkness, which you can't get out of since it is in space (hello claustrophobia!). There are thousands of cannibalistic albinos humanoids who will hunt you down to kill and eat you or use you as living traps, and the rare normal human beings you will meet will either leave you behind, rob you, or kill and eat you.
  • The Russian passenger who wakes up to find himself being eaten alive by the mutant creatures.
    • Becomes Fridge Horror when you realize that the vast majority of the 58,787 sleepers who didn't make it to Tanis alive probably died in exactly the same way.
      • Definitely a LOT less, as Gallo had revived many of the crew to be his playthings, and quite a lot of people would have had to be woken up to make such a mass of descendants
  • Bower covered in bloody human skin, crawling across the sleeping Hunters to the reactor.
  • Manh decides to show mercy to a Hunter child, only to have his throat sliced open faster than the eye can see for his efforts.
  • The gigantic horde of sleeping Hunters found in the reactor room. If this movie was inspired by Dante's Inferno, that scene definitely passes for the cloistered souls of Hell.

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