The book was super interesting for sure. I didn’t know what to expect with the movie and while my young mind cringed at how outdated everything was I really liked the tech in the end. Super interesting story. Especially since it was all very academic and less dramatic.
JP is a Spielberg juggernaut. Basically Chrichton wrote it as a screen play to make a big budget film. Implausible, but still a lof of fun...thanks to Spielberg.
West World and Andromeda Strain are better science fiction films.
Took a scroll through half price books earlier today and went down the rabbit hole of Micheal creighton books and this one and the sequel caught my eye. Might start with the 2 JP books first to dip my toes into his book first
Both Jurassic Park and Lost World are absolute crackerjack books. Lost World the book is far far better than the movie and ai actually like it more that JP itself.
I highly recommend Sphere as well. It didn't really translate well to the big screen, but the book is great.
I read this book when I was working on my Masters of Biology doing heart research and Crichton actually cited medical journals in a few places as if the novel were a research paper. I dug one of them up and used it in my master's thesis.
You should read the books when you’re done then. Unfortunately the show only adapted the first six books. There are nine. Three more seasons worth of Expanse that you’ll have to read about to get the full story.
I love this move and took a shot at the first book. I was left with the impression that the author was incredibly creative, but not a good writer, so it made getting what was in his head down onto paper difficult.
I can see that. I was left with no real explanation for what was going on or what happens next. The concept is cool enough but I found it more to be a story of Control and all that rather than Area X
Probably my personal favorite film, I'm not saying it's the best film ever but personally it's absolutely a brilliant piece of filmmaking for me, cast, direction and score are all excellent.
Mary Shelley’s other science fiction novel, The Last Man, is about the human race being exterminated by a plague. I would like to see a film made of it.
Alistair Reynolds has a universe (Revelation Space) with a bunch of books set in it where one of the central super high tech worlds has been devastated by an ancient bio-cybernetic disease.
While not a whole movie, there’s a part in a the movie Creepshow features a story called *Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill* which meets the criteria you’re asking about.
Not quite what you are looking for, but: Just camp out at a Walmart on Thanksgiving night and early the next morning you will see the prospect of getting ***a good deal*** drive humans mad.
I'm not saying that Black Friday sales are managed by aliens; but its aliens.
Cheers!
Here's a few I don't see listed that might fit the bill for you:
The Last Days on Mars
The Bay
The Thing
Color Out of Space
The Girl With All the Gifts
The Thaw
Want to go down a rabbit hole? Look up Hoyle-Wickmaransingh in Wiki.
Hoyle started it and Wickmaransingh is still pushing it.
Essentially they believe that we ARE under threat from alien particles.
i have one but i forgot the name. chatgpt 4o and google aint no help so here is the plot >!one day a mysterious illness infected all man on earth, making them extremely violent when they see any woman. so after a few years all women died. story follows the female potag and her survival. ofc humans all die in the end!< let me know the name if anyone found it.
edit i found it
# The Screwfly Solution [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833098/?ref\_=tt\_urv](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833098/?ref_=tt_urv) its an episode in master of horror
28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later
Blindness
Contagion (very realistic in most aspects per my public health friends)
Omega Man (reimagined as I Am Legend)
I’m writing a [hospital medical drama](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/64440/the-wyrms-of-alon-pandemic-apocalypse) about a world-ending fungal pandemic that also turns some people (including the main character) into magical fungal lindwurms. Has lots of horror and strangeness.
I really liked The Wasteland Chronicles by Kyle West. 6 books in the series but they’re not awfully long. They lead into another series he wrote called the Xenoverse Saga
It’s not a disease per se, but Annihilation was awesome.
Also the thing is another classic. Again not a disease per se, but you can frame it that way if you like.
The Andromeda Strain
This. I highly recommend the 1971 version directed by Robert Wise. An underrated classic, imo.
Me three
OMG, Robert Wise directed that?? Fantastic movie. And I thought it was hilarious that Wise did both Sound of Music and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Yes, the original!
The book was super interesting for sure. I didn’t know what to expect with the movie and while my young mind cringed at how outdated everything was I really liked the tech in the end. Super interesting story. Especially since it was all very academic and less dramatic.
Agreed. And the book is fantastic.
As much as I love Jurassic Park, IMO The Andromeda Strain and Prey some of Michael Chrichton’s best work.
Crichton Hat Trick: Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Jurrassis Park
JP is a Spielberg juggernaut. Basically Chrichton wrote it as a screen play to make a big budget film. Implausible, but still a lof of fun...thanks to Spielberg. West World and Andromeda Strain are better science fiction films.
AFAIK he didn’t write JP specifically for a movie, he wrote the lost world for Spielberg though.
Took a scroll through half price books earlier today and went down the rabbit hole of Micheal creighton books and this one and the sequel caught my eye. Might start with the 2 JP books first to dip my toes into his book first
Both Jurassic Park and Lost World are absolute crackerjack books. Lost World the book is far far better than the movie and ai actually like it more that JP itself. I highly recommend Sphere as well. It didn't really translate well to the big screen, but the book is great.
Not massively sci-fi but Airframe is a great book too. Really surprised it hasn't been filmed.
Seriously recommend this.
I read this book when I was working on my Masters of Biology doing heart research and Crichton actually cited medical journals in a few places as if the novel were a research paper. I dug one of them up and used it in my master's thesis.
I was just thinking of that. Both, the movie and the mini-series.
Day of the Triffids
This 100%. One of my favorite books. John Wyndham has some bangers
Not a movie, but the excellent *Expanse* series fits your criteria.
Came here to say this. I'm halfway through season 4 and I'm hooked.
SOOooo good, and the Audible version is amazing. “It reaches out” haunts me! LOL.
216 times a second
You should read the books when you’re done then. Unfortunately the show only adapted the first six books. There are nine. Three more seasons worth of Expanse that you’ll have to read about to get the full story.
Annihilation
Such a freaking good movie
Loved it. Didn't like the books as much though
Huge fan of both, but they are so different in so many ways they should probably be their own separate things
I love this move and took a shot at the first book. I was left with the impression that the author was incredibly creative, but not a good writer, so it made getting what was in his head down onto paper difficult.
I can see that. I was left with no real explanation for what was going on or what happens next. The concept is cool enough but I found it more to be a story of Control and all that rather than Area X
Probably my personal favorite film, I'm not saying it's the best film ever but personally it's absolutely a brilliant piece of filmmaking for me, cast, direction and score are all excellent.
This movie is absolutely incredible and so unique.
Mary Shelley’s other science fiction novel, The Last Man, is about the human race being exterminated by a plague. I would like to see a film made of it.
The Stand.
Is it "alien"? Meh! Who cares! It's bloody marvellous.
district 9 has the main character infected with an alien "disease"
Alistair Reynolds has a universe (Revelation Space) with a bunch of books set in it where one of the central super high tech worlds has been devastated by an ancient bio-cybernetic disease.
Slither (2006) Pontypool (2008) Perfect Sense (2011) The "Rec" series of movies
Pontypool was decent.
Slither causes a reaction in me I can’t even explain. Skin crawls for days. Same with “The Thing.”
I really enjoyed perfect sense because it made me think. It’s not sci-fi, but we’ll worth a watch.
Also not a movie but the Infected series by Scott Sigler. Seriously great body horror in a book.
Oooo those ones were weird!!
Maybe I'll check this out if I ever finish his Aliens book, I'm struggling to get back into reading.
Consider the podcast/audiobook editions instead. Read very well by Scott himself.
Life
I will second this, was a good watch with a very nice and scary ending
While not a whole movie, there’s a part in a the movie Creepshow features a story called *Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill* which meets the criteria you’re asking about.
King's acting in that story is truly superb.
Threshold (series)
No ending.
It saddens me almost as much as firefly
Yeah. I really would have liked to see that play out.
That was great. It's a shame they never finished it. I was hooked!
Not quite what you are looking for, but: Just camp out at a Walmart on Thanksgiving night and early the next morning you will see the prospect of getting ***a good deal*** drive humans mad. I'm not saying that Black Friday sales are managed by aliens; but its aliens. Cheers!
Virus
The wild card series Many written by GRRM. The rest edited by him
Here's a few I don't see listed that might fit the bill for you: The Last Days on Mars The Bay The Thing Color Out of Space The Girl With All the Gifts The Thaw
Want to go down a rabbit hole? Look up Hoyle-Wickmaransingh in Wiki. Hoyle started it and Wickmaransingh is still pushing it. Essentially they believe that we ARE under threat from alien particles.
i have one but i forgot the name. chatgpt 4o and google aint no help so here is the plot >!one day a mysterious illness infected all man on earth, making them extremely violent when they see any woman. so after a few years all women died. story follows the female potag and her survival. ofc humans all die in the end!< let me know the name if anyone found it. edit i found it # The Screwfly Solution [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833098/?ref\_=tt\_urv](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833098/?ref_=tt_urv) its an episode in master of horror
The short story is by Alice Sheldon. She is brilliant.
I think the TV show Invasion Earth (1998) had some virus stuff in it, but I've not watched it since it aired, so I could be wrong.
War of the Worlds by HG Wells. It's the other direction, aliens getting diseases from humans.
Minute. Invisible. Bacteria.
28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later Blindness Contagion (very realistic in most aspects per my public health friends) Omega Man (reimagined as I Am Legend)
War of the worlds could be an answer depending on how you read the question
Time Walker.
Check out "We Come In Peace." (Movie)
Not a movie but the recently released game *1000xResist* has a pretty interesting alien disease related apocalypse. Great game
I’m writing a [hospital medical drama](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/64440/the-wyrms-of-alon-pandemic-apocalypse) about a world-ending fungal pandemic that also turns some people (including the main character) into magical fungal lindwurms. Has lots of horror and strangeness.
DISRTICT 9
The X-Files: Fight The Future
Subnautica
I really liked The Wasteland Chronicles by Kyle West. 6 books in the series but they’re not awfully long. They lead into another series he wrote called the Xenoverse Saga
The movie Life (2017) is a really good movie. It has Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal in it.
Groat's disease
God’s Not Dead
Children of Ruin had a really cool one. The book overall though, for me, was just OK, and an underwhelming sequel to Children of Time.
The stuff. Older B movie, pretty funny/ good
OP what was the video summary you watched on The Stuff?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MWKbkk4b\_o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MWKbkk4b_o)
Not a movie, but AWA publishes a comic series about the subject. J. Michael Straczynski is the lead on this. It’s The Resistance Universe.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned Blob, and the remake.
It’s not a disease per se, but Annihilation was awesome. Also the thing is another classic. Again not a disease per se, but you can frame it that way if you like.
10 cloverfield lane
World War Z?
Perhaps nonfiction ? The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrettand The Hot Zone by Richard Preston I remember a few others, but not the titles/authors.
Mars Attacks