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Last week, I ticked sevenpsychological horror moviesoff my Halloween 2024 watch list.

This week, it was sci-fi horror movies.

A face hugger wrapped around an astronaut�s helmet

And, once again, a successful week of streaming was the result.

That’s very 1970s.

This was followed by: why are all these men telling Ripley what to do?

The main cast of The Cabin in the Woods (2014)

That was by far one of the most irritating parts of the movie.

But given their untimely fates at the hands of extra-terrestrials, I can only put it down to karma.

I didn’t dwell on this too much, and it got better quickly.

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That finale was for women in STEM everywhere.

The ‘mad scientist’ archetype on screen is always fun and, rather camp to watch.

It’s a successful example of how to show, and not tell.

Alien

In the case of Rocky Horror, if you get it, you get it.

And if you don’t, I send my condolences.

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Jeff Goldblum in The Fly

Kaitlyn Dever hiding behind a wall

Rory Culkin in Signs (2002)

Thomas Jane in Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist

Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show