📽 30-Day Horror Movie Challenge, Days 11 & 12 🎃

What’s this all about? See the first post.

Day 11 – Your favorite science fiction horror film

I’m not a super fan of Lovecraftian cosmic horror, but if there is any place in which it’s especially appropriate, it’s the actual cosmos. Space is scary. Let’s leave out what things we might share the universe with. Instead, there is the threat of catastrophe, the internal demons a person might bring, and unimaginable forces that might twist perception. Event Horizon (1997) perfectly embodies this (but see also Danny Boyle’s Sunshine (2007) and the quite a few Doctor Who episodes).  Solid cast and setting only bested by Alien3.

Day 12 – Your favorite horror film involving the occult

The Wicker Man (1973) is another movie whose reputation far preceded it and another movie I watched the first time via pretty crappy early internet streaming. Unlike The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I was immediately impressed with The Wicker Man. I consider myself a fairly sophisticated movie-watcher, but like Sergeant Howie, I had no idea what turn the story was taking other than the islanders were definitely up to something. I can’t think of too many movies that provide such a feeling of suffocating otherness. (Side note: this might be the only film on my list with Christopher Lee!)