Just marathoned this, so Ridley Scott just ripped this off for Alien and changed the homework a little huh?
>>218229622Alien is just Planet of the Vampires (the spooky derelict alien environment) + It! The Terror from Beyond Space (space crew being slashered by a space monster before shooting it out the airlock)
>>218229622HOMO SAPIENS
A lot of that era of DW was getting stuff from pulp stories. You'd probably find there was a similar story in Amazing Stories or EC Comics or something
>>218229863Oh, and Metal Hurlant. Hugely influential on sci-fi movies like Alien.
>>218229622>Everyone talks about how Doctor Who was so scary you had to "hide behind your sofa">The Hinchecliffe/Baker era is considered the peak >Yet the horror episodes are quite rare and there hasn't even been one since 2017Why did sci-fi stop being scary?