Alien/Aliens is a given for most people. I have been watching Event Horizon during the spooky season for years. What are some of your favorite books and movies with a horror/psychological thriller lean?

  • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Pandorum was a damn good film, a little goofy sure, but a really interesting idea based around what would happen if someone in that situation really did go off the rails and turn a colony ship into their own personal fantasy/hell for everyone else.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah I watched it several times and it’s so cheesy and silly but also… yeah people huddling up to the nuclear reactors for warmth seems about the way that would go looking at human activity today

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        9 months ago

        I mean it’s a fusion plant, it’s not radioactive like the uranium fission we use today. They mutated because of the drug they were given in stasis.

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          Wellllll… guess it’s time to rewatch Dennis Quaid ham it up in an empty room again cause I forgot some of the plot points.

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      If they’d cut the kung fu stuff, it would have been better, in my opinion. But it’s not a terrible film.

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          The sequence where the Asian dude fights the head cannibal mutant toward the end, then gets suckered in by the cannibal mutant child. The whole thing is unnecessary, and taints what could have been a semi-serious scifi/horror flick. Don’t get me wrong, it’s one of my guilty pleasures. It started out strong, then turned into a Paul W. S. Anderson flick. The same dude who cheapened Event Horizon, which could have also been awesome, instead of Hellraiser in Space, part 2. But I’m sure the producers on both flicks had a lot to do with them.