Life
It’s probably an homage, but the whole plot is like Salt, a script unearthed from the 1950’s filmed straight. A Scary Dogmatic Alien (the dogma is communism), played straight? Like a philosophical Alien, devoid of all the subtext that made it great. Cool effects though.
This predates Gravity by a lot, but it’s not so different. It also predates Prometheus, the scientists are clearly more smart here. They still die gruesome deaths anyway, all of them. ALL OF THEM.
It’s also a more capable Alien than a mere xenomorph. Not only it’s strong enough to maim of kill grown adults, it learns orbital mechanics in a few hours, avoiding being blasted off into space on the second life raft. Eat your heart out, Carl Friedrich Gauss!
The creature escapes to Earth and can easily spread like COVID from some unnamed Southeast Asian country to all corners of the earth.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.