Yes, "Gravity" is amazing on the big screen, and its special effects are some of the best ever put to screen.

While that movie rakes in millions of dollars at the box office, extend your interest to another space thriller from this year - the low budget "Europa Report," now available on home video and coming Nov. 7 to Netflix Instant Streaming.

The film is a collection of (fictional) found footage of a manned spaced expedition to Europa, a moon of Jupiter with the potential for microscopic life. Out of contact with Earth, the astronauts face technical disaster and puzzling occurrences once on the moon's surface.

While the found footage style (sequences composed of spacesuit helmet feeds, surveillance cameras, etc.) allows director Sebastian Cordero to work around expensive effects sequences, "Europa Report" still delivers convincing visuals and character-driven thrills. There's enough real science at work here to create a sense of reality, even with familiar faces like Sharlto Copley ("District 9") among the cast.

The movie isn't as relentless as "Gravity," and though it borrows on horror conventions, it doesn't crumble into a low-fi "Alien" rip-off either. Instead, "Europa Report" hinges its story on the interactions between the crew, and how they work together to untangle a history-defining mystery.

It's an excellent science fiction option for those still on a high from watching "Gravity." Seek it out now on home video, and don't get it confused with "Apollo 18," the found-footage horror dud from 2011, which is currently available on Netflix Streaming. That movie operates on scattered cheap scares (involving alien life on Earth's moon) and banal interactions between dull, shallow characters.

Classic Horror Films Now Streaming

Netflix wants you to watch "Paranormal Activity 4," or, according to its list of Halloween favorites, "Disney's Spooky Buddies."

Fortunately, Netflix also has a number of horror classics available for streaming, including Bela Lugosi as "Dracula" (1931), Lugosi and Lon Chaney in "The Wolf Man" (1941), Boris Karloff in "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and the original "House on Haunted Hill" (1959) with Vincent Price.

Newer classics include the original "Evil Dead," as well as its comedy-infused sequel, and the terrific Swedish vampire flick "Let the Right One In," which inspired the OK-American remake "Let Me In."

Of course you could always watch Bill Cosby's "Ghost Dad." I mean, why not?

Tyler Wilson can be reached at twilson@cdapress.com.