1971 · sci-fi · thriller
The Andromeda Strain
Directed by Robert Wise2h 11m1971
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Our read: The Andromeda Strain (1971) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured sci-fi / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
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