A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.
"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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Weird, I watched this 2 nights ago.
I came up with a theory that the scientists were the last people on earth.
Windows starts the movie talking about how they haven't reached anyone via radio for 2 weeks - maybe the thing had already taken over earth and the scientists in Antarctica were the last remnants of humanity?
I guess that doesn't jive with the spaceship the Norwegians found, but idk
Love this theory. Thank you for your contribution to the conversation. I'm going to chew on this for years.
I'm a simple guy. You post a meme from The Thing (1982), i give you a like.
What's the deal with this color out of space?