The Thing and 9 Other Isolating Sci-fi Thrillers Worth Watching

Science fiction films have become popular thanks to their large-scale and jaw-dropping futuristic settings as well as their mind-bending ideas. But like any genre, there are many ways to approach a sci-fi film. Doing away with the large-scale settings, sci-fi becomes the perfect vehicle to isolate a group of characters in a terrifying situation.It becomes a place where a filmmaker can ask, “What if?” to an implausible scenario and leave it up to the characters to work out how to solve the life-threatening problems that ensure, without outside assistance. This formula can be a sci-fi horror, a sci-fi thriller, or even a disaster movie. The threat facing the characters can be completely alien or something more grounded. The thing that links all of them is isolation and the sense that no one is coming to help.The film I.S.S. wonders what could happen if the U.S.A. and Russia enter a full nuclear war while three Americans and three Russians are on the station. Each crew is told to take control of the I.S.S. by any means necessary. Communication with the ground is spotty, and the astronauts are left on their own.

Science fiction films have become popular thanks to their large-scale and jaw-dropping futuristic settings as well as their mind-bending ideas. But like any genre, there are many ways to approach a sci-fi film. Doing away with the large-scale settings, sci-fi becomes the perfect vehicle to isolate a group of characters in a terrifying situation.

It becomes a place where a filmmaker can ask, “What if?” to an implausible scenario and leave it up to the characters to work out how to solve the life-threatening problems that ensure, without outside assistance. This formula can be a sci-fi horror, a sci-fi thriller, or even a disaster movie. The threat facing the characters can be completely alien or something more grounded. The thing that links all of them is isolation and the sense that no one is coming to help.

The film I.S.S. wonders what could happen if the U.S.A. and Russia enter a full nuclear war while three Americans and three Russians are on the station. Each crew is told to take control of the I.S.S. by any means necessary. Communication with the ground is spotty, and the astronauts are left on their own.

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