Ridley Scott's horror masterpiece Alien is untouchable, but its fans will likely enjoy scary sci-fi like Event Horizon and Life.
In a career filled with movies both great and flawed in interesting ways, the question of what Ridley Scott's greatest movie is might well be up for debate. Among the contenders, one that will often be right up there - and a potential winner in the eyes of many - would be 1979's Alien, which is as straightforward a sci-fi/horror movie as its simple one-word title implies.
When Event Horizon combines intense violence with unsettling visuals/sets and even some religious horror influences for good measure, it can be very effective and unsettling. Other aspects haven't exactly aged well, and the film was infamously impacted by studio interference, though some of its more striking elements shine through and ensure it's a horror movie set in space that's worth exploring. 2 'The Thing' R-rated horror movies don't get much better than The Thing.
Annihilation follows a group of women who venture into a strange and otherworldly zone on a dangerous expedition, encountering all sorts of bizarre sights and creatures along the way. It builds tension slowly and eventually becomes a movie that's all about a desperate fight for survival, adding a certain surreal element to the proceedings that helps it stand out from other movies - both classic and newer - that aim to blend sci-fi with horror.
7 'Life' Like Event Horizon, Life might not be a particularly great sci-fi/horror movie, but it does feel like it owes a good deal to Alien and other movies about isolation in space that came before. The setting is the International Space Station and the cast is overall limited, with it narratively centering on the disasters that unfold when the characters begin examining what's said to be the first evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
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