An Astronaut Has an Unwelcome and Possibly Undead Visitor in the Eerie Sci-Fi ShortDecommissioned

A piece of music ofNASA ’s pastmakes a surprising return in Decommissioned , which packs genuine sci - fi revulsion suspense into just six minute . From the window of theISS , an astronaut notices a unusual — and horrifyingly familiar — bit ofspace debrisfloating in his direction . It ca n’t be what he thinks it is … can it ?

We ’ve have Australian filmmaker Josh Tanner ’s shorts on io9 before ( Reverse , The landing place , The Rizzle ) , but Decommissioned just might be my novel front-runner .

The conductor drop a line to io9 to say he just finished this forgetful last week , and that it was made “ using the Unreal Engine technology thatThe Mandalorian used , albeit old - school day rear sound projection as oppose to the fancy LED bulwark tech they used . ” That explains why Decommissioned calculate so all-fired good , but the truth is that everything here , let in Joey Vieira ’s public presentation as the baffled astronaut , is just top - notch . In addition to being wholly incubus - inducement , that is .

Oh, that can’t be good.