I really don’t want to give anything away on this movie, it was a brilliant survival horror/sci fi film and I definitely think it’s full of win. Earth is dying due to over population and an ark ship is sent to populate a new planet. The journey is to take 120 years, and the crews and general population alternate shifts in cryogenic stasis. The action starts when one of the flight crew for team 5 wakes up to an apparently dead ship, there are power spikes that are happening at intervals, but there is no way of knowing what is going on. Compiling the problem is that he has been in the sleep state for longer than plan which can of course, cause temporary memory loss.
He manages to revive a second member of his team, the third is missing and they begin trying to piece together what is happening on board the ship.
The film runs a little short of two hours, and honestly, there’s not a slow spot in the story. As the survivors run across each other, the back story starts to unfold. I had seen the preview, but hadn’t looked into the story at all on this one, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. The baddies are very well done, and I have to say I had dreams about being chased around a hospital where the doors only stayed locked for 15 minutes all night, so yes, I highly recommend this one. 
We were watching Mirrors last night, not a bad flick, some pretty graphic deaths but the suspense factor was much higher than the gore. There’s a scene where the mom has the daughter go hide in a closet as things are winding up and it stuck with me well after we went to bed.
Closets are big contradictions when it comes to scare factor. Most of the time, it’s what’s in the closet that we’re trying to escape. There are so many childhood rituals surrounding closets, keeping the light on inside, closing the door all the way, etc., and so why, when it all comes down to it, is that the place that we run to when we need to hide? It’s the safest place to get away from the things that are after us. Does having something out in the open negate all the freaky shit that goes on inside?
Discuss….
I love old fashioned monster movies and this was one of my favorites from King. I didn’t go see it in the theaters because Hollywood has a habit of making a mess of things I love. I did pick up the dvd yesterday, with the additional copy of the film in black and white. That’s what the director wanted to do from the beginning. Classic monsters in black and white, the way the old films that inspired the story were done. I have to admit it was brilliantly done, but then I’m a fan of old horror flicks to start with.
What annoys me is that the powers that be thought that the film going public wouldn’t go for a black and white film in this day and age. Are we that jaded that we need to explicit lifelike splatter and can’t appreciate the subtle effect and atmosphere the you can only get in greyscale? I am happy with the end, if it had been different I would have played frisbee with the disk in my back yard.
