Sphere and Loathing in Outer Space

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft This week, we board two late nineties sci-fi thrillers that dare to ask: what happens when human curiosity reaches beyond the edge of the known universe? We're watching Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon (1997) and Barry Levinson's Sphere (1998), two films that take cosmic horror to its most claustrophobic extremes. We look at how Event Horizon transforms a deep space rescue mission into a gory, hellish nightmare, while Sphere plunges deep beneath the Pacific Ocean to confront an entity that feeds on human paranoia. It is a double feature about the terror of isolated environments, the limits of human comprehension, and the madness waiting for us in the abyss. 🎬 Movies Discussed Event Horizon (1997, Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson) Sphere (1998, Dir. Barry Levinson) 🕰️ Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:58 Welcome back to PhantasmaCast 🎶 2:04 Cosmic Horror 101 16:00 Event Horizon 53:49 Sphere 1:19:48 Outro 🔗 Find & Follow PhantasmaCast YouTube: https://youtube.com/@2certifiedbangers Instagram: https://instagram.com/2certifiedbangers TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@2certifiedbangers Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/phantasmacast/id1745055694 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0eifTBsW1y8CkGQppn81Hp 💬 Join the Conversation Are you taking the hell bound spaceship or diving to the bottom of the Pacific? Let us know in the comments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.