June 18, 2026
What Is an Alien For? Cinema, Otherness and the Human Mirror
Cinema, Otherness and the Human Mirror.
Topic
cosmic horror
4 articles on this topic.
September 15, 2025
Anatomy of Cosmic Horror
Alien and The Thing pushed cosmic horror into the body, presenting creatures that unsettle the very notion of identity.
August 15, 2025
Cosmic Horror: When the Alien Cannot Be Understood
Some extraterrestrials do not negotiate, invade with armies or fire laser beams. They are something else: a presence the human mind cannot contain.
July 18, 2025
Abjection in Alien: The Eighth Passenger
Giger's Xenomorph read through abjection: how Alien turns bodily invasion, birth and disgust into a grammar of horror.