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?

  • scarabic@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It reminds me a little of the Reavers in Firefly. We have this notion that when we are far removed from our familiar surroundings and isolated in bleak emptiness, that we will somehow stare into the void and lose our minds, turning savage and cruel as we go insane.

    But if it’s any consolidation, outer space is far too dangerous for it to ever get to that point. Even highly qualified professionals who are trying their best can find it difficult to survive in space. There’s no way a violently insane person would last 30 seconds there.

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      9 months ago

      Existential insanity.

      “The empty black is so vast, and we mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme, which doesn’t exist. It’s all just random variables.”

      We’re all nerds, we get it. But Whedon should have elaborated on it just little more.