Films of the space horror genre, as an attempt to imagine a world–not–for–us.

The article deals with the problem of the world–in–itself being closed to our perception due to the inevitability of human subjectivity in the process of cognition of the world. In the philosophy of positivism and speculativism, the thesis of the fundamental unknowability of reality allows us to deduce an entire aspect of the world that is inaccessible to perception by analytical methods. This part of the world, by virtue of its fundamental concealment, resists all rational cognition, but, nevertheless, it can manifest itself in a special way that has more in common with mystical experience than with objective cognition. The purpose of the article is to offer a figurative language of the cinema texts of the cosmic horror genre as a way to think of the world–in–itself, otherwise inaccessible to cognition. The analysis is based on the example of two texts – "Through the Horizon" (dir. Paul W. S. Anderson, 1997) and "Hell" (directed by D. Boyle, 2007).  A systematic film analysis was chosen as the research method. Screen works are analyzed from the point of view of how the subject of this research is revealed through the structural elements of film production. The main conclusions of the study are the theses that screen works in the horror genre, in particular space horror, can be used as a way to think about an aspect of the world that is inaccessible to knowledge by rational methods. This is possible due to the fact that the fundamental concealment of the world–not–for–us, on the one hand, makes it inaccessible to traditional analysis, and on the other hand, brings it closer to mystical experience. Films of the cosmic horror genre, and especially those that are the successors of the so–called Lovecraftian tradition, use characteristic frightening imagery to evoke in the viewer a feeling of the otherworldly, mystical, to create the same feeling of the creepy that occurs when the world-not–for–us manifests itself. But besides the images, the very structure of the film's narrative and its means of expression work to direct the viewer's thought towards understanding this strange world hidden from us.