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long time lurker...

...first time poster. Have followed this site since the pre-Prometheus days. I may have said a word or two on a topic but that's about it. I rarely post...

An Engineer Building Walter is from Frankenstein, Germany

An Engineer Building Walter is from Frankenstein, Germany Loess Steinmetz is the head of the Department for Neurological Engineering, Weyland-Yutani Greater...

Early draft of, "The Crossing" reveals more about David and Shaw

We Got This Covered posted an article (http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/alien-covenant-draft-script-shows-different-opening-sequence/) that details some of...

"I presume the David series is still mostly male"

"I presume the David series is still mostly male" It appears that the Covenant crew was kept in the dark in regards to the details of the development of...

Anyone think the set design in Prometheus is outstanding?

How much of it did they really build, and how much time/money did it take? The interior of both ships, the Prometheus and the cabin of the engineer's ship...

Exploiting the Beast for another Holiday

We did something like this last year. I try to do silly stuff like this for most holidays and am getting an early jump. I will do the usually corned beef,...

Petition for alien rouge/alien king NECA figure

for the one who like to collect the figures for the alien franchise  (also please sighne and share) Hi i have made a friendly petition...

Regarding the latest script leaks

As some of you might have known already, the "competition" has posted 2 earlier scripts form august 2015...

Alien pops up at Sky Deutschland

German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland is devoting a pop-up channel to the most famous alien monster in movie history. From April 13 to 22, 2018, Sky...

A better direction for the Alien Sequels than Ridley

Ridley killed this franchise by making it's universe exponentially smaller. So David made the ALIEN. Great, no more mystery. Why bother seeing any more Alien...

Alien Isolation and the evolving nature of survival horror

It seems survival horror has evolved as well as cinematic horror over the years. The OP pic depicts a recognizable yet obscured presence- we know it is...

What happened to the MUTHUR-6000 viral website?

Whenever I try to follow a link to the site it just redirects me to the front page of www.alienuniverse.com. I tried to look up why but nothing came up.

Alien: Covenant's HBO debut is Tonight!

Alien: Covenant will be on HBO beginning tonight.  http://www.tvguide.com/movies/alien-covenant/tv-listings/1069218/ Enjoy and have a great weekend....

Is the Beast Really Cooked?

I understand how the Xeno works- we all do. It can still be interesting in at least a sub plot in its development though. We still have not seen the missing...

Alien Isolation play throughs- how many and on what difficulty level?

I doubt Isolation will ever be topped. I am a casual gamer and completed the game on novice level. Still, it was challenging, tense and generally exhausting...

Alien Franchise Food, Week and Toys week

Its a bit quiet here between films but lets see how this go.  dk and I shared a few weeks ago a thread calling for a celebration of the food, drinks,...

Face Hugger jobs between movies

Garden01 The eden tree

This frame expresses a hidden opinion every time I look at it.analyzing the image we see the two characters that represent the opposite of the other, but it...

The androids dream of Electric Sheep?...no longer

The android David has always wanted to be a human as sometimes demonstrated, the contact with which there are other androids (Walter) as in blade runner, in...

The art of Moebius similarity

Not sure if this has been discussed before. So this is from the book The art of Moebius. Released in the 70's if I'm not mistaken. It reminded me of...

Are what I would like to be...DAVID

The android David has always wanted to be a human as sometimes shown in other films where there are asroids like blade runners in which there is no...

Alien: Covenant flashback sequence VFX breakdown

Screenshots Cropped and increased from the screenshot

Neomorph CGI vs The Pale Man costume

Alien Covenant: Budget US $97 million (2017) Pan's Labyrinth: Budget US $19 Million (2006) Neomorph's have little to no fear factor because they are an...

Future Morphs....

As the Alien Franchise has Evolved from its Origins (ALIEN) we have been introduced to various kinds of Xenomorph, and then Hybrids before we arrived at...

Terror in the Alien Universe

As we discuss gore/horror, it seems terror has been absent from the Alien franchise since Alien 3 as far as I can see. Terror- that sense of dread and...

Xenomorph Origin

Did you guys see this about David not creating the Xenomorph but merely trying to emulate what was done in the past or had already existed? I love the idea,...

Imagine if David woke up Shaw and she reacted like this.

Shaw could have been a real bad ass if she responded to David like this!       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BomVB3QkKQs

The flayed Engineer HD photos

Source: http://oddstudio.com/portfolio_page/alien-covenant-models-props-davids-lab/ The odd studio did an amazing job with it, nicely detailed. That...

Why Aliens Is Good

You know why Aliens was good? It's like a zombie movie with Aliens. An infinite number of things that you can kill. R. Scott needs to step aside and a horror...

Take me home - West Virginia

Do you think there was some thought in the back of Ridley's mind (as related to the giants' skeletons / engineers) when he chose "Country Roads" for Alien...

Congratulations: Sir Ridley Scott BAFTA Fellowship

No doubt, many Ridley Scott fans will be aware of him being awarded a BAFTA Fellowship. He certainly does not appear to have slowed down much given his age,...

The Pyramid in ALIEN (1979)

Drawing credited to Dan O'Bannon: 'The pyramid is ancient, primitive and clearly of a different design to the derelict. We are dealing with a different...

Unofficial Music Video - Blondie's Dreaming - Alien: Covenant

Blondie's Dreaming  I had to make significant changes to the original Dreaming video because it was blocked by 20th Century Fox months ago....

Unofficial Music Video - Willie Nelson's My heroes have always been Cowboys - Alien: Covenant

Willie Nelson's My heroes have always been Cowboys Tennessee's first words (in the novel) to Daniels attempting to wake her up fit his character...

Animal Casualties of Sci Fi

I have a soft spot for canines. Here are a couple The Thing: Riddik: Any other memorable fatal casualties?

Alien collectable - Nostromo

Just found this and thought some may be interested in it: https://m.bradfordexchange.com/products/1401977001_.html

Limits of gore

As a lifer Sci-fi and horror fan I am somewhat de-sensitised to most film violence, body horror and gore. My wife on the other hand cringes at almost any...

Concept Art for the Alien Movies To Come

Outstanding artworks created by concept artist Károly Gögös:...

Alien: Covenant work by Suzi Battersby

"I was a part of Conor O'Sullivan's core team from Creatures Inc working on Ridley Scott's alien follow-on from Prometheus. Based at Fox Studios in Sydney,...

Why would the Engineers point humans to their military installation?

The most logical answer to me would be that the Engineers' home planet was in the same galaxy and that's what they were really pointing at. The problem with...