How Sixties Italian Film Planet of the Vampires Influenced Alien
The 1979 summer edition of Cinefantastique magazine featured a scathing review of Alien, deeming it nothing but a melding of...
Alien
An Ode to my Favourite Ambient Sound Effect, Found in Alien, Blade Runner, & Star Wars
Alien. The 1979 horror masterpiece by Ridley Scott, one of the most acclaimed horror films of all time; a truly...
Why Fargo Should be the Template for the Alien TV Series
If there’s one person who can be trusted with bringing Alien to television it’s Noah Hawley. The creative mind behind...
Revisiting Alien Resurrection: A Frustrating and Farcical Failure
Scott. Cameron. Fincher. Jeunet. The Alien franchise feels unique in the horror realm for being so director-driven; each film gifted...
Sputnik is Chernobyl with Aliens
Parasite or symbiote? That's the question at the core of the 2020 Russian chiller Sputnik. In 1984’s Kazakhstan, a space...
Hopes for the future Alien movies
Spoilers for Alien Covenant follow. In the fan community, Alien Covenant seems to be just as controversial as Prometheus and...
Exploring the questions Alien Covenant and Prometheus left unanswered
Spoilers for Alien Covenant follow. Duh! When Prometheus was released in 2012 it left us with a lot of questions...
How the Alien and Blade Runner films could be connected
I fell in love with Alien the first time I saw the film when I was about 12. Its stripped...
Noomi Repace Will Return For Prometheus Sequel
When Ridley Scott recently spoke about Prometheus 2 he revealed Noomi Rapace was no longer part of the cast, and...
Best Movies Never Made
While writing about the extended cut of Alien 3 last week I remembered the brilliant documentaries that accompany the Alien...
