![]() The Andromeda Strain is utterly believable, and that’s part of what makes it so deadly effective. When they do, sci-fi plague movies can be almost unbearably chilling, bleak, and grim. The line for the suspension of disbelief is almost tenuously thin for a movie to work. ![]() ![]() They need to be believable and realistic. ![]() They, and the way we deal with them, are rooted in reality. On one hand, they need to be speculative, to satisfy the science fiction component. Science fiction movies featuring a biological outbreak are saddled with a unique tension. Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel about an alien microorganism let loose on Earth is stark, chilling, claustrophobic, tense, and all too realistic. Plague Week: The Andromeda Strain (1971) movie review
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