This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s 2012 Alien prequel Prometheus. Few Hollywood projects this century have been anticipated with such fervour, nor greeted by such open hostility. The film feels like the unwanted poster child for bad screenplays: your … Continue reading REVIEW: Prometheus (2012)
After an alien bursts from the chest of a dead Predator, its spacecraft crashes into the woods outside a small American town. When a number of facehuggers emerge from the wreckage and begin impregnating the humans, another Predator arrives to … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
It is all Predator 2‘s fault. Back when that 1990 sequel was in production, a member of the design team mocked up the skull of an Alien from the 1979 Ridley Scott film and added it to a way of … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien v Predator (2004)
200 years after her death of Fury-161 Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is cloned by the United Systems Military so that they can extract the developing Alien queen inside her chest. When the USM experiments fail, and Aliens break out across … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien Resurrection (1997)
This is a reprint of an older review from The Angriest. For a much more comprehensive view on Alien 3 you can check out the full 10,000 word essay on this website. An onboard incident causes the colonial military vessel Sulaco to eject its … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien³ (1992)
Decades after she escaped the alien and bedded down in hypersleep, the Nostromo’s flight officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is recovered and returned to Earth. At first nobody believes her story of a crashed alien spacecraft on the planet LV-426, … Continue reading REVIEW: Aliens (1986)
A commercial spaceship is on its way back to Earth when its journey is interrupted by an unknown signal emanating from a nearby planet. The crew is revived from hyper-sleep to investigate. On the planet LV-426 they discover a mysterious … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien (1979)
According to the diary of actor Ralph Brown, who played the role of Aaron in the film Alien³, there was a message carved into a wall at London’s Pinewood studios. It purported to list the six stages of film production, … Continue reading “Ripples in the water” | Alien³ (1992)
In the early 22nd century the colony ship Covenant is in the middle of its long journey to a new planet when a stellar phenomenon critically damages the ship and kills its captain. While the surviving crew conduct repairs they … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien Covenant (2017)
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