Category: Sci-Fi

Alien invasions and space exploration are the two main circumstances of most sci-fi horror movies. You get the ocassional “that cure for cancer sure backfired and now the world is full of darkseekers”, or “50 of us just woke up in a room together and now we have to kill each other.” I prefer the whole “lets navigate our way through this colossal cube that’s full of death traps.”

Circle (2015) Review

This psychological thriller was inspired by 12 Angry Men. Ending Explained. Fifty people wake up standing in concentric circles on circular pads with a black dome in the centre. They soon discover that stepping off the pads causes them to die when the dome emits a beam at them. Every two minutes another of them … Continue reading Circle (2015) Review →

Alien (1979) Review

Alien can be viewed as a slasher flick set in space. A slasher movie is defined as having a body count. Alien restarted the slasher genre that was started nearly two decades earlier, in 1960, with Psycho. James Rolfe reviewed this twice, once in 2007, then again in 2013. Everything Wrong With and Kill Count. … Continue reading Alien (1979) Review →