2020 · sci-fi · horror · thriller
Sputnik
Directed by Egor Abramenko1h 53m2020
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…
Our read: Sputnik (2020) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
Watching Sputnik tonight? Spin for your lens.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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