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?

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Moon - really good psychological element and great acting.

    Pandorum - fun (and a bit hammy) action horror romp.

    Twelve Monkeys - really tight and suspenseful plot with great acting.

    Being John Malcovich - not sure if this fits in, but a great mind-bender of a sci-fi movie.

    • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 year ago

      Man, Moon is such a good movie. Sam Rockwell absolutely killed it which I was quite impressed by considering the last thing I saw him in was as Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhikers. Quite a different set of acting chops he exercised.

    • solstice@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      Being John Malkovich is easily one of the weirdest most different interesting movies I’ve ever seen. The writer, Charlie Kaufman, also wrote Eternal Sunshine, another great one.

      Adaptation is worth watching too, with Nicolas Cage playing two roles, based on the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orleans.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year 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.