There’s something specific about Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien that makes it such an enduring classic.
Geiger’s xenomorph, much like the rest of the series' sequels.
It’s a solid-enough movie, but it’s not frightening in the same way that Alien is frightening.
With Alien: Isolation, the focus is on moment-to-moment encounters with the creature.
Every once in a while, though, the thing will sniff you out.
If nothing else, Alien: Isolation gets the idea of just howdangerousthe alien is.
It’s an intelligent hunter, using everything at its disposal to find and kill you.
Romulus understands the look of Alien and is great at resurrecting the feel of the movie.
But Romulus can’t quite get the monsters right.
The creatures are never shadowy, instead banking on being big, slimy, and menacing.
The fact that you see it walking around actively looking for you makes itmorefrightening.
In Romulus, though, seeing so much of the alien takes some of the bloom off the rose.
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