Earlier this year the recently disgraced Elon Musk sent a rocket into space. Readers of my werewolf horror novel Apex Predator know that I like to explore the ramifications posed by concentrated power running wild on Earth (no less in space).

Perhaps it is no surprise then that the launch of SpaceX’s latest reminds me of one of my favorite films. A film that influenced my fear of untrammeled power in a corporate context. A film that also happens to be in part about the dangers posed by the privatization of space by corporate entities.

Perhaps my fellow horror and science fiction friends know what movie I am talking about…