That sound!!!!

i knew someone else was thinking that. its that wooooOOOOOOooooo repeting. not sure what its is but i think some enviormental ambient sound, kinda like white noise. i also think its a signiture that ridley has used in both movies. and i can almost be sure that it will be in prometheus albeit in high tech audio. if u listen u can almost here it through out the movie (the quiet parts atleast)

Another little 'easter egg' (if you want to call it that) occurs in Blade Runner, during the scene where Gaff and Deckard are in Gaff's spinner car, on their way to the police station early on in the film. The screen in Gaff's car displays the word "Purge" and it's the same display as the one shown on the screen in the Narcissus as Ripley is escaping from the Nostromo. A few moments later there's another graphic on the screen which is the same as the one showing on the Nostromo's monitors when it's separating from the refinery (when you hear Ripley say "umbilicus clear") before they begin the descent to LV-426 in "Alien."

What I found truly unnerving in Alien was when the Alien appeared their was an uncomfortable and unsettling whistle or ringing (like in the ears) and it created focus, fixation and a sense of unstoppable will or unbeatable nature. It never appeared in any of the later (and lesser films IMO) It created an almost palpable stillness. Scott imbedded this stillness in Bladerunner and it weighed those scenes so perfectly. I just hope Prometheus has this stillness in it too.

Agree, punx. Too many ADHD/ADD types have made too many movies WITHOUT the stillness and the silence that it takes to REALLY build tension and climax nowadays, cuz, the audience is too busy waiting to answer the next text message, or facebook post, or whatever worthless addiction they're attached to at that second, INSTEAD OF GETTING ABSORBED INTO THE STORY LIKE THE DIRECTOR INTENDS...

DNA Crossover, could'nt agree more..... That tension building to climax has been lost nowdays. When was the last time you sat in a movie and got that moving ultimate revelation moment? Alien had it Shawshank had it Fight Club had it Inception end flight scene had it a little Hope prometheus has it in bucket loads from the RS Stamp............

Cylon, I posted a similar topic on (abandoned for me) IMDB board about this very thing a long time ago. It's a lovely, eerie and very subtle sound like an hermaphrodite human sighing of subdued ecstasy (or sorrow?) and somewhat erotic. If this is incorporated into Prom I'll be a happy bunny. As DNA says, it conveys a subtle unbearable tension which had an effect on the audiences of '79 and '81, but it may seem boring and 'so what' to today's loud drums, smash n scream crowd.

yeah, maybe its not only about stillness, but a good balance between what is hearable and what not. Sometimes its more important to have no sound (or picture)..IMO.. thats important in Horror, too..