Nearly 9 months after the competition was announced, today is the day we’ve been waiting for! The official release of the first of the Alien: 40th Anniversary Shorts! Up first is Chris Reading‘s Alien: Containment.
Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around the outbreak that led to their ship’s destruction, they find themselves unsure to trust whether or not one of them might be infected.
Next week will see the release of Alien: Specimen which was directed by Kelsey Taylor! Be sure to let us know what you thought of Containment down below!
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Hicks.
HuDa's breasts are slowing him down and resulting in money slippage.
See?
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Shhhh. That's not a joke. That's appreciation.
*looks at his own Facehugger box*
The struggle is real.
The biggest joke is that I shelled out for one of the fancy Facehugger trilogy sets a few years ago despite not having a VCR to watch them on
I would have forked out the cash just for a Blu of the shorts. Seems annoying having to pay when I have the Blu and no 4K ( although that's something I may change).
... 5 if you include the DVD I have of the Virtual Workprint.
There. I gave it a little down home flair for ya.
Dad, why do you have 3 different versions of all these movies.
...I don't know son, I don't know.
Do you have bookshelves full of physical media?
As David's Creation says, the 4K includes a regular Blu-ray as well, and experience suggests the bonus stuff will be on the regular Blu disc.
According to the makers, they're going to be included as extras on the upcoming Alien 4K release.
I even have a dedicated Alien/Predator binder.
I'm a card carrying master heathen.
I hate the dust, clutter and lost space that comes with cases.
A couple of these babies and all my stuff is safe, contained and out of sight.
It's just the right thing to do.
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There going to be a blu? That's awesome.
It's all good. Discs go in a wallet. Cases get recycled, paperwork goes in "da gahbidge".
Best Buy has the steelbook if you want to avoid the ugly cover.
Aw hell.
Now I got something else I gotta buy.
I hope it's not just the 4k, or I'm s.o.l.
"Give them a Blu-ray release guys!"
To what are you referring Huda?
Is there some new anthology coming out or something?
although I agree to disagree regarding the rest. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSAt9oO_1is
Kelsey Taylor though, is 100% right.
Yes.
Like a great pair of shoes that you just wear to the dinner table and that's it.
It had everything it needed to run, yet it went nowhere.
I like that they went the extra mile for that Alien '79 look. Smoking up the set worked well (except the opening wide shot of the interior - someone forgot to give the smoke machine a quick squirt). I also like the true anamorphic instead of a simple crop to get the widescreen aspect ratio. The oval bokeh added that extra touch, although the picture is missing the blue horizontal lens flares that are characteristic of anamorphic. There are lots of plug-ins readily available to add flares in post, a shame they didn't have one.
Acting 5/5
Excellent performances all round., especially the actress playing Albrecht. She had the best opportunities to play some different sides to her character (nervousness and shame, defensiveness, a touch of pride, fascination with the creature), and she made some good choices there.
Production Design 4/5
Wardrobe; excellent. Set design was generally good, but I thought the bulkhead cross sections weren't industrial-looking enough. Also, too many blank spaces on the walls; set dressing needed to really pack them with industrial clutter to create lots of deeply shadowed crevices for that creepy, what's-hiding-in-the-dark effect.
Direction 2/5
The bit where Ward climbs on to the seats and steps across the patient to avoid the chestburster running around the floor was silly. She's already spent so long sitting on the floor, it would have made more sense to take 3 quick steps to the airlock door. My guess is that the script explicitly describes her climbing across the seats, but tunnel-vision on the part of the director meant he was unable to see for himself, once on set, that it wouldn't play very well. The same with the contrived action of having Albrecht fall against the door control, accidentally opening it and falling outside. A lacklustre idea, clumsily portrayed, and confusingly shot. I had to watch it again to figure out what happened.
Screenplay 2/5
It's hard to take the audience on much of a journey in 9 minutes, so you're never going to get that epic feel you experience from the movies. 9 minutes is, in essence, a one act play. That being said, the exposition of the opening distruction scene is brilliant, very efficiently establishing the premise and setting in the minimum amount of time, and without elaborate and detailed visual effects.
I suspect that the logline that would have sold the story probably emphasised the mystery of: Who amongst the survivors is a carrier? (Albrecht voices this question outright). But no sooner is this raised than it is immediately answered, dispelling the promise of any tension.
Overall 3/5
Most fan films that you see on the internet are basically recreations of the filmmaker's favourite scene from the movies. This short suffers from a bit of that.
Entertaining but uninspired.
TC
What does it say exactly?
For what it was, I liked it. Mostly, I liked it because the chestburster scene had more suspense than the one in Covenant - which says a lot about Covenant.
I thought that, too. At least that's how it looked.
I figured his plan was to pretend to still be asleep and pray lol.
My main issue, besides not seeing the Alien itself, is that it just lacks any real drama or tension. They're there, they're arguing, the guy pops, one person falls over and gets their face eaten and the other stumbled to the end of the corridor.
People say "it's only 9 minutes", but that's more than enough time.