Wednesday, March 28, 2007

V is for Virus, Volkov, and Vandenberg

A crew of working-class misfits on a beat up old tub encounters a massive derelict ship whose crew is either dead or missing. They investigate and awake an Ancient Unspeakable Evil(™) that begins killing them one by one…
Yes, it’s the plot of the 1979 movie Alien, and the 1997 movie Event Horizon, and probably half a dozen other movies since then (you can throw in John Carpenter’s terribly underrated 1982 movie The Thing for good measure). In essence, it’s the classic haunted house story placed in a science fiction setting.

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