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Cosmic Horror

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"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

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8 Cosmic Horror Movies So Terrifying They’ll Twist Your Reality! (X Spooktober) (lemmy.world)
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Now my definition of cosmic horror boils down to movies that must have a terrified protagonist. Not because of the monsters or their dangerous surroundings, but because at some point in the movie, they realize that they have absolutely no power to change anything in the environment that surrounds them. Therefore films where the main characters struggle to fight against something that cannot be challenged, a battle that technically can't be won. In short, movies that don't have a happy ending. I'm going to be covering Cosmic horror-themed films. Movies that I feel do a fantastic job at adapting Lovecraftian themes. Not movies based on the works of HP Lovecraft.

List for TL;DW or otherwise known as hemomancer cheat sheet.

  • Annihilation
  • John Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy
  • Event Horizon
  • The Last Wave
  • Possession
  • The mist
  • Uzumaki
  • The Void
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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It may be heresy but Annihilation did nothing for me and I like Jeff VanderMeer's writing and Alex Garland's films so it should have been a dead cert.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a fine movie as Syfy goes. That said i think that any Cronemberg movies can give you more "eldrich vibes".

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But that bear scene was so good!

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

My favourite scene, I believe - it's been a while and I am not adverse to a rewatch, so...

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But that's all anybody ever says about the movie. It's always that bear. They never mentioned the plant people they never mentioned the giant animals or that weird mimic thing at the end. Because the bear was the best part of the movie and in my opinion really the only part of the movie worth watching

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but the rest is almost interesting enough to sit through.

[–] clark@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Possession from 1981? Love that one.

[–] mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Endless (2017)

[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Aniara (2018)