3) Sunshine
Quite possibly Danny Boyle’s most underrated film, Sunshine presents a veritable smorgasbord of all the ways one can die horrifically in space. There’s death by being burnt alive in close sunlight, death by being frozen into a human icicle whilst unprotected outside the safety of a ship, and death by being crushed into a pulp by your own flight technology. Once again, though, Sunshine reckons it’s the madness that space brings that’s the most dangerous.
On a mission to nuke the failing Sun in an effort to reboot it (yeah, it’s ridiculous), members of the Icarus II – including Cillian Murphy’s Capa and Chris Evans’ Mace – gradually turn against one another as the pressure of their task mounts up. Even as the body count goes up, you’d expect maybe Captain America or Scarecrow would see it to the end, but nope: once crazy flesh-demon Mark Strong – playing an abandoned astronaut-gone-wild – is murdering up Icarus II’s crew and proving why you shouldn’t spend any more than a couple of years alone out in space, even they can’t win out.
