Tag: alien
Friday One Sheet: Czech ALIEN, LOLA, CINDERELLA
We have talked in the past about the surreal and avant garde key art from 1970s and 1980s era Poland. It is worth highlighting some superb (and bold) posters from the former Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic of the similar era, that...
DEMONIC Interview: Neill Blomkamp On Combining Science Fiction With Supernatural Horror
The first contact in District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s powerful first feature film, turns out to be different than we might anticipate. The aliens stranded on a spaceship on the skyline of Johannesburg, South Africa, are malnourished, dirty, and without direction....
JIU JITSU Interview: Star Alain Moussi And Director Dimitri Logothetis Talk Martial Arts And Science Fiction
The classic martial arts film Kickboxer was given new life in 2016 by producer and screenwriter Dimitri Logothetis, the man behind the remake Kickboxer: Vengeance. The legendary Jean-Claude Van Damme took on the role of the mentor, while martial artist...
CREEPSHOW Interview: Greg Nicotero on Reviving the Iconic Horror Anthology As a Series
Greg Nicotero is a living legend of the horror genre. I mean, his first credit is the masterpiece Day of the Dead, in which he assisted special makeup effects artist Tom Savini under the direction of the man who certainly...
SEA FEVER Interview: Neasa Hardiman On Her Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller That Now Feels Even More Relevant
In Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever, which played at last year’s Fantastic Fest, Hermione Corfield plays Siobhán, a young marine science student who’s working on her doctorate. But not everything is theory, she has to get her “hands dirty”, try to...
Review: MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN Bursts Open Mythology
(That's Dan O'Bannon peeping around the corner...) Over the past decade, writer-director Alexandre O. Philippe has made a name for himself as a documentary maker, picking all sorts of interesting subjects like Paul the Psychic Octopus, or Star Wars fandom...
HAUNT Interview: Bryan Woods And Scott Beck On Their Haunted Attraction Horror Effort
Haunted attractions have been a quintessential location for horror films. Just in 2019, It Chapter Two has a major scene involving James McAvoy’s Bill trying to save, at a funhouse, an innocent kid from Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård); and prior to their...
Imagine 2019 Review: MEMORY Reminds Us Why We Love ALIEN
(That's Dan O'Bannon peeping around the corner...) Over the past decade, writer-director Alexandre O. Philippe has made a name for himself as a documentary maker, picking all sorts of interesting subjects like Paul the Psychic Octopus, or Star Wars fandom...
ALIEN: CONTAINMENT: The First of Six ALIEN Shorts Debuts
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's Alien 20th Century Fox is releasing six official Alien universe fan shorts leading up to "Alien Day" on April 26. In the first short, titled "Containment", four survivors find themselves stranded aboard...
Destroy All Monsters: Hell Is The Human Race In ALIEN: COVENANT
Spoilers. "Mortal, after all," crows the android David (Michael Fassbender) in Prometheus, upon discovering that the "gods" his crew has sought - the Engineers - can in fact be killed. In Alien: Covenant we learn that David took his name...
Review: ALIEN: COVENANT Uses Horror to Mask Its Shortcomings
Ridley Scott returns to fill in the blanks of the maligned horrors of space, with plenty of screaming and more than enough people around to hear it in Alien: Covenant. His familiar fated take on the Alien genesis, however, sticks more...
Interview: Director Walter Hill on THE ASSIGNMENT, Star Quality, and the Late Bill Paxton
With a career that started early as Steve McQueen’s screenwriter, Walter Hill has more than made his mark on American cinema. The writer of The Getaway and Alien, and director of Hard Times, The Warriors, 48 Hours, Streets of Fire, Wild...
ALIEN: COVENANT Issues a Warning
This is a public service announcement. 20th Century Fox has issued a warning on Twitter. Run. The tweet itself contains little information other than a single date: May, 2017. Whatever it means, I'm praying for the best, but getting ready...
Latest ATTRACTION Trailer Suggests The Arrival May Not Be Intentional
The long history of alien arrival films has generally been driven by one of two options. Either they've come here to help us or they've come here to hurt us. But based on the latest trailer for Fyodor Bondarchuk's Attraction...
Neill Blomkamp Takes On ALIEN
Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9, Elysium, and the imminent Chappie, appears to not only have landed an Alien movie, but to have enticed Sigourney Weaver to return to the franchise.Next to nothing is known about the project other than it...
Explore The ATROPA In Classically Styled SciFi Short
If your idea of 'classic' scifi embraces films like Alien and Blade Runner - films that perfectly balance technology, character and grit - then director Eli Sasich has got a little something special for you with his short film Atropa.Anthony...
Rest In Peace, H. R. Giger
Earlier today, the famous artist H. R. Giger died in hospital. According to the Swiss press, the famous artist succumbed to injuries he received on Monday during a bad fall. He was 74 years old. H. R. Giger is famous...
Hey, Toronto! Win A Double Pass To Catch A Rare Screening Of Roger Christian's BLACK ANGEL On The Big Screen With In-Person Q&A!
Okay, Toronto, here's a rare treat!Back in 1980 famed Star Wars art director Roger Christian made the move to the director's chair with a 25 minute short film titled Black Angel. George Lucas was enough of a fan of the...
The Kids Talk Film: ALIEN
Imagine the opportunity to go back and watch Ridley Scott's Alien, for the first time again. Willem (age 10) got his first exposure to the horrific piece of science fiction as he continues his tour through the genre with his father...
Review: ALIEN 9 Is Unique And Compelling Anime
Let's first make something very clear: despite its title and scenes showing aliens inside humans' abdominal cavities, Alien 9 bears absolutely no relation to the beloved Alien movie franchise. Instead, it is a short 4-episode anime series that tells the...
