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?

    • shininghero@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve always liked the fan theory that Event Horizon took place in the Warhammer 40k universe, and that the ship went into the warp without the necessary gellar fields.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        23·
        1 year ago

        I hadn’t heard of that up until a few weeks ago and now it’s hard for me not to view it as canon.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
      391·
      1 year ago

      It’s because Larry Fish does everything right, makes the best possible moves in his situation, and still has problems. There’s a strong case to be made that Capt Miller is the one of the smartest protagonists in a horror movie and that’s why the movie is so haunting.

    • 00Sixty7@lemmy.world
      34·
      1 year ago

      Typical ghost/demon etc supernatural films and even a lot of sci-fi horror are snoozefests in comparison to Event Horizon because this film really puts it all together on a scale that makes it horrific. It plays with the supernatural angle and actually even explains it in such a way that puts it closer to reality, and then compounds that horror with the crushing isolation, unfamiliarity and unknowability of space.

      I really wish there were more movies that got horror THIS RIGHT.