alien
‘Alien: Romulus’ is a Well-Executed Crowd Pleaser [Review]
To start, the Alien franchise, with its dense mythology and rich history, fucking rules. Alien, and all of the movies that succeeded it, have been such unique and genre-bending experiences for audienc...
How Alien Raised the Bar for Visuals in Horror
Throughout most of the 1970s, horror was very focused on realism. There was a transition period in the previous decade that moved the genre away from the Gothic Hammer films, truly cementing horror in...
Six Horror Movies That Don’t Start Out as Horror Movies
It’s pretty traditional for horror movies to just be horror movies from the start. It’s what’s expected. Nobody would go into a horror movie expecting it to be something else. Tra...
Seven Original Versions of Famous Horror Movies (That Were Terrible)
A lot of work goes into bringing your favorite horror films to life. Sometimes they start with one initial, great idea and it just takes a team of people willing to do whatever it takes to see it real...
Alien On Stage Is A Surprisingly Sweet Tribute To A Sci Fi Classic [SXSW 2021 Review]
Alien On Stage follows the amateur theater group Paranoid Dramatics as they attempt to adapt Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic to the community theater stage. By day, the players are an unassuming gro...
Project Ithaca will restore your faith in alien movies [Review]
Project Ithaca revolves around a Saw like scenario where random people find themselves tethered to the same alien spaceship. With little information, five strangers have to navigate their imprisonment...
Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ is a Striking Experiment
The notion of following up Alex Garland’s landmark of sci-fi cinema, Ex Machina, is unquestionably daunting. Though his directorial meddle wasn’t tested until 2015, Garland’s scre...
Twelve Horror Novelizations That Are Actually Still In Print
Horror novelizations are generally thought of as being pretty rare. Some of them go for insane prices online, especially ones like Phantasm that were never widely available to begin with. Most of thes...
Second Opinion: Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott’s latest foray into the universe belonging to Synthetic Beings and Xenomorphs is an intense and compelling horror ride. If you were not a big fan of Alien: Covenant’s predec...