Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel about an alien microorganism let loose on Earth is stark, chilling, claustrophobic, tense, and all too realistic. Science fiction movies featuring a biological outbreak are saddled with a unique tension. On one hand, they need to be speculative, to satisfy the science fiction component. And yet, pandemics happen. They, and the way we deal with them, are rooted in reality. They need to be believable and realistic. The line for the suspension of disbelief is almost tenuously thin for a movie to work. When they do, sci-fi plague can be almost unbearably chilling, bleak, and grim. The Andromeda Strain is utterly believable, and that’s part of what makes it so deadly effective. Despite the fact that a good portion of the action on-screen being akin to watching clinical laboratory footage, Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel about an alien organism getting unleashed on work, is exponentially more terrifying, more dread-inducing, than the cruelest Slasher film or pitch black Gothic Horror. Plague Week continues on Forestpunk with a review of Robert Wise's adaptation of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. . #plagueweek #theandromedastrain #michaelcrichton #plague #selfquarantine #socialdistancing #coronavirus #covid19 #robertwise #sciencefiction #scifi #scifimovies #dystopian #dystopianmovies #viral #outbreak #scifihorror #70shorror #70smovies #disastermovies #aliens #extraterrestrial #horrorgram #horrormovies #horrorfilm #horrorcommunity #horrorlover #jsimpson #moviereview #forestpunk (at Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B90P9SVBOYs/?igshid=9w5sbgz2wclg
