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The episode presents an overview of five underappreciated space horror movies that deserve much more recognition than they currently receive. It highlights Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, a 1960s classic featuring parasitic entities that reanimate corpses. The episode also examines the Russian sci-fi thriller Sputnik, which centers on a cosmonaut harboring a dangerous extraterrestrial organism inside a military facility. Additionally, it spotlights the intense French survival thriller Oxygen, in which a trapped woman rapidly loses her air supply inside a high-tech pod. Further praised is the animated feature Lily C.A.T., which borrows heavily from traditional cosmic horror tropes while substituting its antagonist with a terrifying robotic cat. Finally, the piece focuses on the indie film Prospect, a tense outer-space survival drama starring Pedro Pascal and Sophie Thatcher that predates similar apocalyptic narratives.
