Netflix Just Quietly Added Most Underrated Sci-Fi Gem of the Decade With Silo Star
Missed good old space monsters?
Good space fiction rarely appears on movie screens, and there are even fewer good horror films set in a spaceship or alien habitat. The 2017 film Life, which finally landed on Netflix on July 1, is a worthy and criminally underrated representative of both genres – sci-fi and horror.
What is Life About?
The crew of the International Space Station is on the verge of making one of the most important discoveries in human history. While studying samples collected from the surface of Mars, the astronauts discover the first evidence of extraterrestrial life – one of the samples contains a large single-celled organism.
But further research leads to unforeseen and deadly consequences, as the discovered life form turns out to be much more intelligent than anyone expected.
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Life may be the best example of space science fiction since Interstellar and The Martian. It has room not only for running around the ship and hiding in compartments and escape pods, but also for some deep reflections on space, the meaning of exploration, and the importance of understanding the world and ourselves.
Life's Cast Consists of A-List Stars
In a horror movie with a space monster, it may seem silly to use a star-studded cast – they all have to go under the knife anyway. But the cast of Life is something to be admired, and the individual good work of the actors in the movie cannot be compared to what the team does together.
The atmosphere of the movie is not created by the jokes of Ryan Reynolds ' Rory, not by the admiration for the new life of Jake Gyllenhaal 's David, and not by the quiet disapproval of Rebecca Ferguson's Miranda, but by the balance of the team and their skillful interaction.
Life is a Movie for Every Fan of The Thing And Alien
Life brilliantly captures the horror of the unknown, the suffocating airless atmosphere of a space unfriendly to humans, where an equally unfriendly alien is hunting the characters.
In the absence of competition, Life is one of the most impressive space horrors of our time, worth seeing for anyone who misses the good old days of Ridley Scott and John Carpenter.