The Dissolve’s look at Paranoid Thrillers and Science Fiction

If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know I have a tendency to retweet my film culture grazing, but I don’t repost as much here. Generally that’s because I want to provide added value on FITI—a few opinions or a little commentary, not just a doorway to someone else’s stuff.

But every once in awhile I find a great think piece on a key subject, like this one from the excellent movie site The Dissolve, that I just gotta share. It’s about where 70s paranoid thrillers and science fiction overlapped, from The Parallax View to Capricorn One to The Cat From Outer Space. 

For the record:

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The Parallax View is still as terrifying as ever, more than 40 years on.

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Capricorn One is entertaining cheese—probably recommended only for fans of 70s time capsules, campy scifi, or the cinematic oeuvre of Orenthal J. Simpson.

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I can’t say one way or the other about The Cat—it was a childhood favourite but I can barely remember anything about it. Maybe I should revisit.

About the author

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Carsten Knox is a massive, cheese-eating nerd. In the day he works as a journalist in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At night he stares out at the rain-slick streets, watches movies, and writes about what he's seeing.

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