We never get a full exploration of the horrors they bring. Both comic and movie take a very measured, almost tease-like approach to the glimpses we’re afforded of Hell. How it does so is where it meets Event Horizon. Nameless looks at the idea of Hell as a way to test just how reliable reality can be. The film-which is getting its own tv series-digs deep for its chilling visions of Hell in space and it begs a look at how its Hell compares with that of Nameless, which is based in part on the Mayan underworld of Xibalba rather than on the classic Hell of Christianity. What’s interesting and scary about Nameless is how well it corresponds with Anderson’s Event Horizon, which I consider to be one of the best horror films of all time. Morrison and Burnham bring the reader as close to madness as they possibly can, with reality and evil occupying an unstable space filled with hellish imagery. The asteroid is inspired by Mayan and Polynesian myths and iconography and it’s revealed that it could be a prison for an old god stuck in our dimension. The series, published by Image, follows an occult expert on a space mission tasked with diverting the path of a haunted asteroid that’s headed straight to Earth. In 2016, the comics world gets one of its most terrifying, sadistic, and complex looks at Hell in space in the form of Grant Morrison’s and Chris Burnham’s Nameless.
A very personal version of Hell no one wanted to be stuck with. id Software/NASA/Electronic ArtsĮven NASA, as it prepared to launch its first manned mission to space in the 1960s, feared the possibility its astronauts would catch a bad case of “space madness,” a form of trauma psychiatrists warned could manifest itself when humans came face to face with the realities of space and how alien it could feel. Newer generations came into contact with this type of horror through another video game called Dead Space (2008), where scientific inquiry extends an open invitation to a cosmic evil that, like Doom, turns a space station in a den of demons. For others it was through Paul Anderson’s fan-favorite sci-fi/horror movie Event Horizon (1997), about a spaceship that traveled to Hell and came back with something terrible on-board. For many, it was an idea presented by way of demons and shotguns in the 1993 video game Doom. It’s like pairing fine wines with perfectly cooked meals, or Blood Cocktails with sacrificial goat cheeses. Each horror comic will be paired with a horror movie that shares a similar approach in getting those blood-curling screams out of us. But it doesn’t stop there! Oh no, it doesn’t.
There’s Blood on My Comics! is a bi-weekly horror column about how our comics make us afraid of turning to the other page.
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