We love these two categories for a simple reason: they're a refreshing breath from one another. Even though films like a vampire or ghost or monster movie are scary, we know they're not realistic and sometimes we like to go into films that are more lifelike as it's scarier that way. Likewise, films that are lifelike can get to be too much and sometimes even become depressing, so the ones that are far out there are easier to watch.

However, sometimes there are films that are kind of in the middle. They're extremely unlikely, but not entirely impossible. So with this article, I'll be discussing films that are virtually improbable in real life, but not completely impossible. I will say that for the sake of the multitude of religious beliefs out there, I'm leaving out spiritual style films like The Exorcist, Poltergeist or Stigmata, so no religious argument.

So, let's discuss this, with the chance of me sounding like an idiot.

Six female friends hookup and head out to go cave exploring. However, one has lied about the cave they're exploring and as it turns out, they're in an unexplored cave entirely. However, it turns out that the cave is in fact not only explored, but has been inhabited for thousands of years.

It's evolution at it's goriest. The story is pretty much what would happen if some humans had been separated completely from the rest of the world and what a possible result of that separation could be; blind savages that hunt by sound. The idea that a creature would completely lose its need for sight isn't as crazy as it seems. On the Discovery Channel special Planet Earth, they showed cave dwelling lizards who had evolved out of a need for eye sight. Humans, if given the thousands of years necessary could do the same. It does make you wonder which direction we could have gone depending on the conditions of our surroundings, this being an example of one.

At the dawn of the Millennium, humans have made space travel a usual and easy journey, so much so that there are hotel satellites space stations on the moon and. Eventually, they find an anomaly in space and send a mission with several humans and the latest creation, HAL, an artificial computer, to investigate. However, when HAL is threatened, he takes action.

It's a common story of the possibility that man's creations could one day threaten us, but among all the stories that it happens, Terminator, Matrix, I'd say this one is the most likely to happen. HAL simply doesn't see his human companions as inferior or obsolete; he simply wants to do what he's been made to do, to get to the ship to its destination smooth and easily, and its occupants questioning his programming is not smooth and easy. If machines ever turn on us its because we'll defy what we teach them. In a way, we'll do it to ourselves.

A bunch of spring breakers in Cancun meet up with a man who's looking for his missing sister. They learn she was at some local pyramid in the deep jungle. At first, it sounds like fun, but once there, a bunch of local villagers kill there guide and strand them there. They then learn that the plants covering the pyramid aren't just over brush.

While there's never been a confirmed case, there has been multiple myths of plants large and advanced enough to kill a human or creature of similar size. I highly doubt if there was one, it would be to the extent that this films plant is, I mean it can grab, pull and even imitate sounds in order to lure in prey. But the idea of one existing that could feed off of a human isn't all that crazy. There's the obvious Venus Fly Trap and there's a few other plants that feed off of insects and smaller animals. We're always finding new species of plant and animal, I think there could be one that's large enough to feed on us.

In the northern jungles of Australia, a bunch of tourists are taking a boat ride upriver to see the local wild life, crocodiles in particular. However, they soon get a distress call from a boat farther upriver than usual and they investigate. What they find is that they're suddenly in the territory of rogue crocodile larger then ever imagined.

There's been a lot of crocodile on the loose films, Alligator and Lake Placid for instance, but this is the most realistic one to me. Crocs don't stop growing from what I've heard, they simply get bigger as they get older and they can live up to 100 years old. Also, this one isn't really going around killing people, the Croc is in fact in its territory and the people came to it. That's usually how real life animal attacks happen, your intruding on their home. The film does stretch some aspects like the fact that lead actress survives being bitten on her torso and death rolled (had to have a happy ending), no way with that bite force, but there could be larger then usual apex predator out there.

An elderly billionaire has used the best scientific minds of his genetics company to bring back one of history's most admired creatures, dinosaurs. Reviving these creatures, he then sets up an amusement park and invites some selected guests to visit it before opening. However, due to a backstabbing employee, the dinos are set free.

OK, I'll say that I'm really stretching it on this one. I do think that scientists could possibly revive the long lost creatures in some form, some how, just not in the way the film did or the perfect result they had. I'm aiming more at the result of what happened in the film. If we ever somehow rebirth a dinosaur or any long lost creature, we'll parade them around for everyone to see and talk about, and we'll get cocky and someone, either few or many, will get hurt. This does ask an interesting question; should we play God and bring back what's been lost for the sole purpose of entertainment? Because if we do, at some point, shit will go down and someone will regret it.

After an expedition in the Congo goes missing, a group of people, each with there own goals, set up a new one. Having survived several dangerous situations, they finally find the missing camp and a long lost city said to have immense diamond deposits. However, they learn that the ancient rulers of the city had found a primitive guard for the diamonds.

While I'm using the movie version of the story, I will say that the book had an even more realistic premise. It's pretty common knowledge that apes, gorillas in particular, are very similar to humans, so much so that they can learn some basic but higher lessons. If they can learn to do simple tasks, what is to say they can't learn to guard certain items to the death and to kill, if need be. The book, as I said, does it better because it's more specific, as it has gorillas that at some point have been crossbred with Chimps and were trained in hand paddle weapons. This kind of goes back to the 2001: A Space Odyssey 'if we teach them something, maybe it'll come back to haunt us'.

A group of people who are against medical tests on animals break into a research facility set some animals free. However, a monkey bites a woman and only seconds later she turns into a savage monster. 28 days later, a man awakens in the hospital to find the world has suddenly gone silent as savages now roam the streets of England.

As awesome as the traditional zombie is, this is more likely to happen in real life. I personally call them savages since all they are, are humans who're sent into a savage rage. It's a disease that makes us monsters. Granted, other Zombies have been made by diseases, but these aren't rotting away. If there's ever anything that would be like a zombie outbreak, it would something like this. I will say that a virus that acts this fast is questionable, I don't think it'll be less then a minute, but I do think the possibility for a biological weapon that produces an insane, zombie like human could be possible.

So that's my list of things that are 99% improbable, but not a 100% impossible. And by this time I sound a lot like Mulder from the X-Files. But you know what, I do want to believe in some things, and I do believe these aren't pure fiction and impossible.

If you agree, feel free to respond, if not, respond anyways.