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    Completely no surprise here but I love sci-fi horror. Taking cool futuristic concepts and using them to create an atmosphere for horror. I love being fascinated with technology while simultaneously terrified of it. The best example I can think of this, and coincidentally my favorite horror movie?

    Event Horizon.

    In the not terribly distant future, Humanity creates an FTL drive which is installed aboard a spaceship called the Event Horizon. On her maiden voyage she vanishes. Some 7 years later, a distress call is picked up in a decaying orbit around Neptune from that very ship. A Search and Rescue vessel called the Lewis and Clarke is dispatched, along with the ships creator, to check out the signal and find what went wrong. What they do find is far more than they bargained for as the ship itself seems to be itching to return wherever it originally disappeared to.

    Came out in the 1997 with an AMAZING cast. Pre-Matrix Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Neill from Jurassic Park, Pre-Harry Potter/Star Trek/Everything Jason Isaacs, and the stellar Kathleen Quinlan.

    There’s also a fantastic fan theory that Event Horizon takes place in the Warhammer 40k Universe but far in humanities early history. It’s one that I actually buy into. Makes a shocking amount of sense.

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      That’s a good one, but I think “annihilation” is a better sci-fi horror. That movie was fucking amazing

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        Agree to disagree. Everytime I’ve tried to watch it I end up falling asleep. I have… opinions about Natalie Portman and her acting ability.

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          Perfectly okay, media will always be subject to taste and no one is the same. I wish, however, that there was an extended version of event horizon and that the extra scenes weren’t destroyed. Sad, that movie is top 5 sci-fi horrors though. What do you think of “Color out of Space”?

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            Absolutely! I’m glad that you didn’t take offense to that. I was a little worried because, well, it’s the internet.

            Yeah those scenes being lost to time are really disheartening. Although considering the original ‘Hell Scene’ was considerably longer maybe we didn’t miss that much.

            Color out of Space I’ve never actually heard of. I’m going to have to look into that one.

            What about Sunshine? I think 2009 movie. Staring Cillian Murphy.

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              Oh fuck, lmao. I’m actually so happy you mentioned that movie, I’ve never heard of it and I truly believe sci-fi horror to be vastly under-explored and underrated sub genre. So when I find out there’s another one out there I get super happy, so thanks man lol. We both have another movie on our list 🤣

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                Of course! I saw Sunshine many years ago and it haunted me in the best way possible. It’s really beautifully done with amazing cinematography, acting and a chilling score.

                Looks like I’ve got a movie to watch tonight too!

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      There’s also a fantastic fan theory that Event Horizon takes place in the Warhammer 40k Universe but far in humanities early history. It’s one that I actually buy into. Makes a shocking amount of sense.

      Yeah, first warp travel. Way before Geller fields were invented. The whole depiction of what the crew went through and what happens during the film is very much what you expect from 40k Warp