Much like Fede Alvarez‘s feature debut, 2013’s Evil Dead, Alien: Romulus explores a sibling relationship at the center of the carnage. Of course, it’s also baked into the title, a reference to the myth of twin brothers Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of Rome who were abandoned as babies and fated for fratricidal tragedy. […]
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“It is New Year’s Day, the year of our Lord, 2094. We are Halloweenies, last survivor of the Prometheus. And we are still searching.” The gang continues and concludes their coverage of Ridley Scott‘s 2012 prequel, picking up where they left off last week on LV-223. In the second episode, the Halloweenies discuss the cast, […]
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The director of The Vourdalak, Adrien Beau recommends six horror favorites. Family is the ultimate encapsulation of society. It offers us a taste of the whole world, but at a molecular level – and is very convenient if you want to destroy the world via your storytelling. The Greeks knew it with their tragedies, and […]
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The Halloweenies follow a map to LV-223 in search of our creators. In the first of two episodes dedicated to Ridley Scott’s 2012 prequel Prometheus, the gang charts the development and its ensuing production. They also discuss the confusing ties to the Alien franchise and whether or not this works as a prequel. Stay tuned […]
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The Perfect Organism. After kicking off May with discussions of Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy (listen), Trace and I have checked out Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (listen) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Gregg Araki‘s Mysterious Skin (listen). Now we’re crossing a classic title off our list: Ridley Scott‘s Alien. Alien tells the story of the […]
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All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Halloweenies! A day in the Halloweenies is like a day on the farm. Every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every episode a parade! I *love* the Halloweenies! And hopefully you do, too, because this time it’s war, […]
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There’s a brand new Alien movie on the way from Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez this year, and, per Deadline, it’s officially been given the title Alien: Romulus. Alien: Romulus is currently set to launch into theaters on August 16, 2024. According to star Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) in a recent […]
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The commercial space tug Halloweenies is scheduled for detonation, but not until they’re done discussing Ridley Scott‘s Alien. In the third and final episode dedicated to the 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece, crewmates McKenzie Gerber, Dan Caffrey, Michael Roffman, and Rachel Reeves prepare for evac by taking inventory on its one-of-a-kind cast of blue-collar shipmates, debate […]
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The commercial space tug Halloweenies is in quarantine. After inspecting a transmission from a nearby moon, the crew returns with a perfect organism: Ridley Scott‘s Alien. In the second of three episodes dedicated to the 1979 sci-fi horror, McKenzie Gerber, Dan Caffrey, Michael Roffman, and Rachel Reeves move to the lab to study Jerry Goldsmith‘s […]
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The cast for FX’s “Alien” series continues to grow, with Deadline reporting that actor Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) joins in recurring capacity. More interestingly, the announcement gives a bit more insight to the many of the characters in the series. The series is “set in a time period before Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and is the […]
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The next movie in the Alien film franchise is directed by Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe filmmaker Fede Alvarez, which will notably be the first Alien movie released by Disney. Principal photography wrapped on Alvarez’s Alien earlier this year, and it’s currently set for theatrical release on August 16, 2024. While we wait, we’ve got a first […]
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Honest Trailer Trace and I are recovering from our live show at Salem Horror Festival this past weekend, but in April we kept busy with episodes on Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Tony Scott’s The Hunger, and, most recently, queer Black writer/director Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess (which just celebrated its 50th anniversary!) […]
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The true story of the Boston Strangler will come to the screen in an upcoming feature being produced by Ridley Scott for 20th Century Studios, with Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon starring. It’s coming to Hulu on March 17, and the trailer just debuted today. Matt Ruskin (“Crown Heights”) wrote and directed the serial killer thriller, which also stars David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad, Dune), Chris Cooper, and Alessandro […]
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It’s been months since the bombshell dropped Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will both write and direct a brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios. Momentum for the project heats up with news that it may have found its star. Deadline reports that Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) is in talks to […]
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Five years after Denis Villeneuve’s feature film Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner is now headed to the small screen with Amazon Studios ordering up new series Blade Runner 2099! Deadline breaks the news that Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) is executive producing the live action series, with Blade Runner 2099 said to be a follow-up to Blade Runner 2049. Deadline notes, “As […]
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