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?
SOMA by frictional games.
It explores some of the usual questions about what exactly the human mind might be, if it ever becomes possible to scan, simulate, copy and transfer consciousness.
But it does so in video game form, in a way that makes you face those questions from a visceral, personal, first hand experience perspective.
It’s a science fiction masterpiece.
This one annoyed the piss out of me. The protag is dumb as rocks
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This is one that i bought but never got around to.
Do eet. Just go in dark, that’s the best way to experience it.
Short Stories:
I have no mouth and I must scream - Harlan Ellison - this story was the apogee of sci-fi horror in the 70s and 80s.
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick’s original short story and the inspiration for Total Recall.
Weird French Shit:
Fantastic Planet - Animated french scifi about humans being kept as pets by giant blue aliens.
City of Lost Children - steampunk cybercultists
Classic Movies:
They Live - In case you’re out of bubblegum
Tremors - broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn’t ya?
Scanners - Pop!
Fantastic Planet is one of my all time favorite movies and I think it ages dreadfully well.
I rather liked The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt.
Sphere from Micheal Crichton. Both the movie and the book are pretty good.
It is more sci-fi than anything else, but i think it fits the thriller category as well. Without going into spoilers, it is a story about scientists being deep down in the ocean, and strange things happening.
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Let the right one in(2004) is a beautiful movie set to the background of some beautiful dark Swedish forests.
Event Horizon is my favorite horror movie.
Smart shut-in builds an implausibly powerful computer in an attempt to discern a pattern that is responsible for all things. He uses the golden spiral as evidence of such a pattern, and believes he will eventually take pi out to so many decimal places that such a pattern emerges there.
The psychological thriller aspect relates to what he experiences along the way, and how it ends. I have a theory about the ending, but no idea if it’s an opinion shared by the creator or any others.
Triangle . The science fiction angle is that it’s a time travel paradox. Predestination is another similar film, based off of Robert Heinlein’s “–All You Zombies–”.
Is Andromeda Strain small enough? I love both the story and the movie. The combination of high stakes and routinously slow and boring procedures to scientifically-like contain\eradicate the unknown virus is hypnotyzing.
Cube, though pretty well known, still fits ‘small’ IMHO, Given it’s lows budget.
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Andromeda strain, Logan’s run, Event horizon, stalker, x-files series 😆
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