Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre

Acknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Part One: Horror Made in America John Carpenter of Mars: Space Horror in the Films of John Carpenter (Ben Kooyman) 13 The Cold, White Reproduction of the Same: A New Hypothesis About John Carpenter’s The Thing (Dario Altobelli) 33 Meteor Madness: Lovecraftian Horror and Consumerism in the Battle for Small Town USA (Nicholas Diak) 50 "It (never actually) came from outer space": ­Earth-Origin Threats in Space Horror Films (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) 66 Part Two: Time and Space in a Sea of ­Post-Modern Isolation Nonknowledge and Inner Experience: A ­Post-Modern Rhetoric of Space Horror (Gavin F. Hurley) 81 Out of Space--Out of Time: Looking at the Factors of Time in Space Horror Movies (Juliane Schlag) 96 We’re All Alone, Out Here: Isolation and Its Contribution to Space Horror in Film (Janet Joyce Holden) 111 That Moon Is Romantic: Duncan Jones’s Dark Fairy Tale (Adam M. Crowley) 121 Part Three: The Uncanny Body The Architecture of ­Sci-Fi Body Horror: Mechanical Building-Bodies and Organic Invasion from Deep Space to the Anthropocene (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter) 127 Ghosts in the Machine: Emotion and Haunting in the Creation of the Irrational Robot (Casey Ratto) 140 Part Four: The Devil Made Me Betwixt and Between: Magic, Science and the Devil’s Place in Outer Space (Andrew P. Williams) 151 Under the Influence: Undead Planets and Vampiric Dreamworlds in Outer Space (Simon Bacon) 164 Part Five: Play It Again or Rip It Off A "family of displaced figures": Posthumanism and ­Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection (1997) (Charles W. Reick) 181 Galaxies of Terror in a ­Knock-Off Universe: Atavism and the ­Rip-Off Body Horror of "Aliensploitation" Films (Jason Davis) 194 Leprechaun 4 and Jason X: Camp, Paracinema and the Postmodern Sequel (Kevin Chabot) 217 About the Contributors 233 Index 235