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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Thankee. It's actually a theme that I wish was explored more in the scifi/outer space genre.
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I think the only reason its not, is that its a hard concept for the general public to digest. Alien worked because there was simply a monster stalking people through a ship. A lot of time I try to explain why the film is so terrifying to me (its pure and utter loneliness all the way out there by the Acheron system, and its just you, and 6 others on a huge ship. Damn), and most people don't get it. I have always thought space was scary, its sheer vastness and possibilies inconcievable.
Even Horizon, on the other hand, is scary the same way a Clive Barker novel is scary. The fact that it sort of borrows the setting from Alien (which itself is nothing new, horror set in spaceships was done in some early horror films) serves to make it even more tense. It seens influenced by Barker in its concept of damnation and the idea of other worlds underlying our own, but don't simply think of it as "Hellraiser" in space (thats Hellraiser: Bloodline). Despite having Anderson at the helm, its a very good movie, and one of the scariest films made in the late 90's.