We find these two, passengers on the colony space ship the Nightflyer, locked in horrific conflict before the story cuts back to the beginning of their ill-fated journey. Matheson and Angus Sampson as Rowan.įurther reading: Nightflyers: Inside the George R.R. The success of that opening scene was in no small part thanks to the excellent acting chops of Gretchen Mol as Dr. Which is pretty damn impressive for Syfy. We are talking a series opening as jarring as some of the scenes in season 1 of the Walking Dead. The tension ramps up so quickly that this viewer was grinding her teeth and breaking into a flop sweat. And horror.Īnd you will get plenty of horror in the opening sequence of the season premiere of Nightflyers. The specific themes being hard science fiction. Thematically, however, there is a grey area. Adapted into a low-budget film in 1987 it would be unfair to say the two films were similar or even related. It is an easy leap to make, lest we forget that Nightflyers was originally a Locus Award winning novella published in 1980 by George R. Before we go any further, we need to be very clear: potential viewers surfing the internet for reviews will hear the inevitable comparison to the 1997 film Event Horizon.
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