Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre

✍ Scribed by Michele Brittany

• Book ID: 111781369
• Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781476630625
• ASIN: B076YFMLHG

✦ Synopsis

In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audiences, depicting a harrowing and doomed deep-space mission. The Alien films launched a new generation of horror set in the great unknown, inspiring filmmakers to take Earth-bound franchises like Leprechaun and Friday the 13th into space. This collection of new essays examines the space horror subgenre, with a focus on such films as Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon , Duncan Jones' Moon , Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires and John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. Contributors discuss how filmmakers explored the concepts of the final girl/survivor, the uncanny valley, the isolationism of space travel, religion and supernatural phenomena.