Life (2017 film)
Life (2017)
Summary
"Fear life, not death: we were better off alone." A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Details
- Release Date: 2017
- Country/Language: USA, English (with subtitled Vietnamese and Japanese)
- Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Horror
- Setting: Cthulhu Icarus, near-future Mars and the International Space Station
- Runtime: 1 hr 44 min
- Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
- Director: Daniel Espinosa
- Writer: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
- Producer/Production Co: Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital, Skydance Media
- View Trailer: (link)
- TVTropes: (link)
- IMDB Page: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: MPAARATING (notes)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
At heart, this is basically an effective sci-fi/horror story about a Tentacle Monster from space ripping astronauts to pieces in zero gravity, but that would be the extent of any remotely "Lovecraftian" content.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
Reviews
Review Links:
- Joey Keogh at (Wicked Horror) - "Sci-fi fans will find little new here, aside from glaringly obvious nods to Gravity (2013 film), Alien (1979 film), and 2001: A Space Odyssey), among others, which will either delight or infuriate depending on how much you can buy into the central conceit."
- Review by Brett Gallman at (Oh The Horror!) - "...A perfectly serviceable exercise in claustrophobic, monster movie space horror... However, even all that big studio luster can barely hide the cheap thrills underpinning... a film that is essentially about a tentacle monster ripping through human flesh for about 100 minutes...."
- Review by Ed Sum at (28 Days Later Analysis) - (6/10) "In space, the sky's the limit and perhaps the greatest danger can be small as an ant to start."
Synopsis (SPOILERS)
Spoiler Section (Highlight to Read)
A team of astronauts studying a sample of newly-discovered Martian life on a space station near Earth push their experiments too far, allowing the surprisingly robust Martian to escape from the lab and begin killing and eating the scientists one-by-one, leaving a wake of destruction in its path, and hitching a ride with the survivors back to Earth....
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- fiction: compare loosely to Clark Ashton Smith's The Vaults of the Yoh-Vombis (fiction)
- race: "Calvin", basically a Tentacle Monster, or perhaps Shoggoth or even Leech of Yoh-Vombis
- setting: Cthulhu Icarus, Mars (as origin of "Calvin")
Keeper Notes
