The Chart Room · space

Filed by Dana Graviton

The horror genre has long understood that confinement breeds terror, and what's more confined than a tin can hurtling through the void? This roundup charts the franchises that traded creaky houses and foggy woods for airlocks and cryo-chambers, from the ones that nailed the claustrophobic dread of deep space to those that fizzled like a busted life-support system. Some of these cosmic detours are genuinely unsettling,