Old Space Horror Movies Planet Of The Vampires (1965) Astronauts encounter a phantom life form that makes people kill one another. Here are 25 films that exemplify the boundlessly claustrophobic anxiety of space horror, a nightmare that none of us has ever known but yet all of us are somehow able to imagine. Event Horizon (1997) is one of the best horror films from the 1990s and perhaps the best space horror movie of all time. Although landmark films such as 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey popularized the innate terror of having things go helplessly awry while you’re drifting listlessly among the stars, space terror was also the central theme in rock and roll hits of the era such as David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (1969) and Elton John’s “Rocket Man” (1972).
What was known as the “Space Race” between the United States and the communist Soviet Union mostly took place between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s, during a time when space travel and astronauts occupied much more of the popular imagination than they currently do. Still from Saturn 3 (1980), a British space horror movie that is so bad it is good. There’s a cruel paradox there-the vast and endless patches of darkness surrounding the spaceship make it feel that much more like a coffin. Many horror movies thrive on isolation and claustrophobia, and what makes space horror so much more compelling is that you’re suffocated inside a cramped and tiny spaceship in the midst of more space than the human mind is capable of conceiving.
Europa Report (2013) is a mix of thriller and horror set in space. Helplessness is at the core of all terror, and there is nothing more possibly helpless than being stranded endless light years from home either on a malfunctioning ship or at the mercy of a murderous space monster or parasite.
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