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What are some of your favorite smaller Sci-Fi Horror/psychological thriller stories/films? (lemmy.world)
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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?

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[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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!

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Friggin love Tremors man, it's redneck Dune, awesome example of a low budget movie made amazing by good writing and creativity.

[–] swan_pr@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fantastic Planet is one of my all time favorite movies and I think it ages dreadfully well.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I did a rewatch before I posted it to the @13thFloor and I was amazed (hadn't seen it since I was a kid). Some of the most intriguing and beautiful surrealistic animation ever, and the story is remarkably good - generating a sort of slow clinical terror in the viewer that flows and builds beneath the bright alien landscapes.

[–] swan_pr@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The expressions of the humans really struck me as a kid, I could feel their terror (and anger) without really understanding the whole thing. Side-related but I've the 13thfloor tab opened for a few days and I haven't explored it yet. Guess I should do that now :)

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right on - we're always open to travelers of the Fantastic Planet, and any other extradimensional refugees ;)

Side note - our movie series is here under the #cinemainsomnia tag, if you're just looking for full length films.

[–] swan_pr@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Wonderful thank you!!

[–] daneBramage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not scifi but still dark and very funny - the film Wild Tales from Spain is a collection of shorts with the common theme being revenge.

[–] IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Fantastic Planet is disconcerting. I can only watch for about 15 minutes at a time