French Alien fan Louis Thomann has just released his fan film, Alien: Special Order! Built using the Source Filmmaker with assets from Alien: Isolation and other games, Special Order is the result of nearly two years of Louis’ time putting together this awesome tribute to Alien.
“This is a fanfilm based on the Alien Movies that I started to develop almost two years ago all alone, and was created on spare time only. Without any budget, shot the film in real conditions was something that would be impossible to achieve regarding the need of the scenery that took place in Alien, and so, I’ve decided to develop it through the Source Filmmaker, a video game engine created by Valve Software, that allowed me to create an animation film in real time.”
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No philosophical questions, no million guns and million alien-insects. Literally - this is the best Alien movie.
Yeah, my thought after seeing the warning light and the door was it was some sort of corporation owned hived up area too. Made sense with the Special Order title. I thought that perhaps they were just a research team. There was some dialogue about finding the subject when they found the unbursted woman.
"Is it supposed to be the Derelict on LV426?"
I'm not sure. Looking at that warning strobe and closing door at the end makes wonder if it's some kind of company owned hive, and those guys were fooled into going down there as food or to see if the hive was still active. Could be the company has finally found the derelict, and has sealed the original hive though. Either way, something dirty is going on there.
I'll admit, when I saw the title I thought it was going to be some art piece with aliens set in a restaurant. Boy was I pleasantly surprised.
It is only a shame that they used same musics, same effects, same mechanics gone cliché (for example victim cooconed, waken up by human just to chestburst), same reactions... It just feels like a bold lack of fantasy and ideas.
Is it supposed to be the Derelict on LV426?
Well done!