No other environment than Space can quite capture the sense of sheer bleakness. Ridley Scott, famous for the original Alien and other more Earthly movies like Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, he returns to the sci-fi genre to direct Prometheus.
The plot synopsis shows great potential for this movie to be something rather epic. Apparently the release date isn’t until next Summer… so in the meantime, I recommend these 2 very suspenseful films to satiate your other-worldly needs: