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It's real simple, Fede. We just want the animal xenos from the Kenner toy line brought to life.
Why is it kinda cute though?One of the unused concepts for an earlier draft of Alien 3:
Finally saw this last night and loved it, it's what Prey was to the Predator franchise. Fede Alvarez absolutely captured the tone, foreboding atmosphere and horror of the first two movies, the bleak industrial aesthetic mixed with the sterile labs set the stage for an intense ride that could actually stand alone.
I followed this up this morning with Civil War and Cailee Spaeny is an impressive young actress, leading this type of movies isn't easy, it takes more than just talent, you need something extra and she has it as Rain, the relationship between her and Andy is the heart of the movie. They did Isabela Merced dirty, poor Katy's death was the grossest in franchise history!
The pacing is perfect, as the obstacles facing the characters escalate and the horror of the trouble they are in fully unfolds. I don't recall if the face huggers only being able to see humans via heat has been mentioned in any of the movies, maybe in extended media? But it created a really intense sequence here, the face huggers have never been scarier than in this movie! The film is full of creativity and the highlight of this is the sequence where Rain switches off the gravity so she can shoot the Xenomorphs and keep the acid blood suspended in the air so it didn't burn through the hull, great stuff!
When these type of movies venture from the main creature it rarely works, case in point the goo beast from Alien: Resurrection, but on this occasion they nailed it, the human/xenomorph hybrid was a truly horrific creation, reminiscent of the Engineers, and Alvarez made it work in the same way as he did with the Xenomorphs, using close ups, angles and lighting to maintain the menace. If there's a sequel and we find out what happens to Rain and Andy next, that's cool, but this film can stand on it's own regardless.
9/10