The Field is a 2019 horror film that was listed as SF on Amazon Prime. Director Tate Bunker co-wrote the script with Anthony Wood. It's a pokey piece about some dumb people who move to Wisconsin. That's enough of a horror show for me. Anyway, a chef from Chicago gives up his cooking career, his wife didn't want to share him with his 90 hour a week job, they buy a farm in Manitowoc Wisconsin. The chef is into nature photography so he starts taking pictures of the farm. He sees strange images of people in his photos, people who weren't there in the field. He meets Veronica Cartwright, she's a disturbed older lady who had disappeared many years ago. She returned after 7 years in a rather disturbed state. Mark Metcalf plays the sheriff and Barry Bostwick plays a local businessman with connections to the farm. The wife finds evidence that a cult of some sort used to inhabit the farm. The chef becomes obsessed with the people in his photos. The townies don't like him poking into the past. Eventually we find that there's some sort of entrance to other dimension or something. I guess that's stretching the SF element a good bit but there you go. It looks fairly good but it was too lack luster for me and I didn't care much for the characters. I wouldn't need to see it again.
Harbinger Down is a 2015 Horror SF movie about a Soviet space experiment gone wrong. The space probe disappeared in the 80s and a crabbing boat, with visiting college students, finds it in the ice in the North Sea. Lance Henriksen is the captain of the boat, one of the students is his niece. It's a bit like The Thing, the mutated astronaut thingy gets all goopy and rampages through the ship, picking off the crew and students one at a time. It's about average, they toss in a spy angle but it's all still pretty much yelling in a boat at sea. It's dark and gloomy and about average. I wouldn't need to see it again.
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