And it sucked giant donkey balls. Just like Event Horizon.
But I’m intrigued by this “crappy sequel to a better movie we never got to see” idea. If I think of a good thread title (as the idea doesn’t lend itself very well to a short, snappy title) I may make a new thread about it.
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Forbidden Planet had a concept that was similar enough, and it was certainly done right.
FTR, I have nothing against SciFi as a front for horror (that’s all Alien was, to begin with). In fact I would argue that, at least in mainstream entertainment, all SciFi is just a setting to tell a story in another genre, rather than being a genre in itself. The Fifth Element? Action film. District Nine? Drama. Star Wars? Fantasy/Adventure. And so on.
Edit: was very much entertained (and frightened) by Event Horizon, when I saw it.
In STAR TREK and out of it, Mack Reynolds often built stories around Space Cafard, which stems not from a quantifiable organic source or localized telepathy but from just being in space regardless of the region – because, hey, you try spending a lot of time out there in deep space, cooped up with creeping boredom tempered only by “the tides of primitive terror that swept you when the animal realization hit that you were away, away, away from the environment that gave you birth.”
Sure, it’s bad enough when the walls start closing in from cabin fever. But really knowing there’s only depthless blackness outside the ennui-inducing conditions while you watch your symptoms progress? That’s a whole different kind of disturbing.
One spaceship, one murderous psycho, one mysterious object giving off crazy waves. And a crew of eccentric types, none of whom are operating with a full deck.
“He may be suffering from Ocean Madness, but that’s no excuse for Ocean Rudeness!”
I would nominate the short-lived TV series, “Defying Gravity.”
There was a show on UK TV just a few weeks ago called The Deep, which though it doesn’t go into fantasy deus ex machina, it does at least lose the thread of its multiple subplots while the entire crew behaves irrationally and sometimes impossibly.
Doesn’t 2001: A Space Odyssey sort of go that way, too? And what about Mission to Mars and Red Planet?
I’d like to see a movie about a deep space journey where the crew behaves rationally and don’t go mad, and yet still has a good adventure plot. It seems to me that ought to be possible.