Alien Appendix Series
Posted by Darkness on February 12, 2023 (Updated: 13-Mar-2024)
The Alien Appendix series started out as a group of seven fan-made DVDs from the late 2000’s. These DVDs included rare documentaries and footage from the Alien series that weren’t included on the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set. Since then, some of the material have made it into the 2010 Alien Anthology set. Other fans continued the Alien Appendix series, releasing Alien Appendix 8 in 2016, as well as 9 and 10 in 2022. Thanks to xeno_alpha_07 for the links.
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Alien Evolution was a documentary that originally aired on UK TV channel 4. When the Alien Quadrilogy box set was released it contained a bonus 9th disc which featured this documentary however it had been heavily cut. This DVD includes the uncut version. Since this was released, however, 20th Century Fox have released the uncut Alien Evolution documentary on the Alien Anthology Blu-Ray set in 2010.
Years ago a fan editor made an edit of Alien re-inserting the known deleted scenes from Alien, this was known as ‘Alien Redux’. Years later another fan has made a revamp of this edit from scratch using all known footage available to make a reconstructed virtual workprint. This version also uses unused musical scores and has alternate opening credits.
This release contains a few pieces of supplement material. The first is a Laserdisc Rip of a very rare 1981 making of documentary called ‘Giger’s Alien‘.
Other material featured:
- Excerpt from Ridley Scott: Eye of the Storm (1992)
- Masters of Terror with Vincent Price (1986)
- Shock & Awe: The Return of Alien (2003)
- Alien: the Director’s Cut Featurette (2003)
- Yaphet Kotto interview (2003)
- Widescreen Alien teaser trailer and theatrical trailer (1979)
- Alien Widescreen VHS release trailer (1992)
- Alien: the Director’s Cut trailer (2003)
- Alien: the Director’s Cut TV spots (2003)
This release contains:
Excerpt from VISUAL FUTURIST: The Art & Life of Syd Mead
Vintage preview and review from Entertainment Tonight
Excerpt from The Greatest Ever 80s Movies
Trailers and TV spots
Alien War features
Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright
This release contains:
Aliens
- Electronic Press Kit: B-Roll (3:50) + Soundbites (10:55)
Alien 3
- Tv Commercials: Alien/Aliens Triple Pack (3:27) + Pepsi (1:00)
- The Making Of Alien 3 (Alien Legacy Edition) (22:28)
- The Making Of Alien 3 (Facehugger Edition) (22:11)
- Epk Featurette (6:38)
- Epk Soundbites (11:25)
- Epk B-Roll (5:46)
- Entertainment Tonight: Visual Effects (2:07) + Charles Dutton Interview (1:53)
- Mtv: Preview (2:09) + Visual Effects (1:42)
- Siskel & Ebert: Review (3:00)
This release contains:
- TV Spots (3:47)
- Alien Resurrection: Behind the Scenes (25:43)
- The Making of Alien Resurrection (22:43)
- Featurette: Behind the Scenes (3:48)
- Entertainment Tonight: Behind the Scenes (2:02)
- Entertainment Tonight: Los Angeles Premiere (1:00)
- Entertainment Tonight: Weaver & Ryder Interview (1:53)
- EX: Los Angeles Premiere (2:40)
- E!: Los Angeles Premiere (1:48)
- CNN: Shobiz Today (3:10)
- Sky: Movie Show (7:55)
- Siskel & Ebert: Review (4:00)
This release contains:
Alien
- Official Super 8 Version
- Channel 7: Intro
- Fast Forward: Alien
Aliens
- VHS Previews
- Day by Day: Sigourney Weaver Interview
- Channel 7: Review
- Xposure: Remaking the Alien Queen
- Academy Awards
- BBC: French & Saunders
Alien 3
- Ten: Intro
- 60 Minutes: Sigourney Weaver Interview
- Entertainment UK: Review
- Today Tonight: Sigourney Weaver Interview
- Entertainment Tonight: Premiere/Sigourney Weaver Interview
- Spotlight: Behind the Scenes
- Hollywood Report: Premiere
Alien Appendix 8: The Alien Saga Archive (September 2016)
- NIGHT FLIGHT: PREVIEW (13:07)
- TEMPS X: CINÉMA – ALIENS (11:27)
- BOB BURNS’ SPECIAL EFFECTS COLLECTION (4:31)
- SENSE OF SCALE: PATRICK MCCLUNG (7:41)
- CULT FILM SCREENINGS & DEAD MOUSE PRODUCTIONS: WILLIAM HOPE INTERVIEW (5:19)
- FILM 4: JAMES CAMERON ON DIRECTING ALIENS (2:42)
- SKY MOVIES: THE ALIEN QUADRILOGY – MONSTERS (3:34)
- THE INSPIRATION AND DESIGN OF ALIENS – DIGITAL-ONLY EXTRA (30:54)
- ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT: ALIENS 30TH REUNION (1:04)
- TODAY: 30 YEARS OF ALIENS (3:44)
- COLLIDER: ALIENS 30TH ANNIVERSARY – SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2016 (5:26)
- COMMERCIALS: 30TH ANNIVERSARY / ALIENS LIVE / ALIEN DAY / JAPAN BLU-RAY (7:12)
Alien Appendix 9 (2022)
- KXAS-TV: PARENTS BRINGING YOUNG CHILDREN TO SEE ALIEN (1:41)
- KXAS-TV: TOM SKERRITT INTERVIEW (2:04)
- RTS: ALIEN, LE 8E PASSAGER DE RIDLEY SCOTT EST SUISSE (7:40)
- INSIDE THE ACTOR’S STUDIO: SIGOURNEY WEAVER (4:15)
- PROMOS: ITV / NBC (1:55)
- MOVIE MAGIC: ALIEN CREATURES (5:17)
- AFI’S 100 YEARS 100 HEROES & VILLAINS: ALIEN (0:57)
- AFI’S 100 YEARS 100 THRILLS: ALIEN (1:50)
- TOTALLY HOLLYWOOD: ALIEN – DIRECTOR’S CUT (3:29)
- ONE: HOLLYWOOD’S BEST FILM DIRECTORS – RIDLEY SCOTT (1:32)
- STUDIO 10: VERONICA CARTWRIGHT (1:53)
- DARK STAR: H. R. GIGER’S WORLD (3:58)
- RTVE: LOS ORÍGENES DE ALIEN (1:24)
- RTVE: DÍAS DE CINE CLÁSICO (4:49)
- HOLLYWOOD SUITE: SPOTLIGHT – THE ALIEN SERIES (4:54)
- FILM GENRE: SCI-FI (6:11)
- CNN: THE MOVIES – THE SEVENTIES (1:22)
- SKY DEUTSCHLAND: MAKING OF – ALIEN (10:04)
- LADDIE: THE MAN BEHIND THE MOVIES (1:55)
- DELETED SCENE: NOSTROMO FLYING OVER THE ALIEN PLANET (1:49)
- BBC: THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION: SPACE (3:22)
- BBC: MY LIFE IN SCIENCE FICTION – STORIES FROM THE STARS (3:45)
- BBC NEWS: ALIEN ISOLATION (4:15)
- TRAILER: ALIEN ROLEPLAYING GAME (1:13)
- DISNEY’S HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS – THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE (1:18)
- COULD YOU SURVIVE THE MOVIES?: ALIEN (15:10)
- ROBOT CHICKEN: ALIEN SKETCHES (5:50)
- SNEAK PREVIEWS WITH ROGER EBERT (5:24)
- VHS SPECIAL LETTERBOX COLLECTORS SECTION: SCOTT INTERVIEW / OUTTAKE FOOTAGE (24:19)
- 20 TO 1: MOVIE HEROES & VILLAINS – ELLEN RIPLEY (1:47)
- SHUDDER: THE 101 SCARIEST HORROR MOVIE MOMENTS OF ALL TIME (4:00)
- HOLLYWOOD SUITE: CINEMA A TO Z – MONSTERS (2:18)
ALIENS
- MTV: WEEK IN ROCK (0:18)
- ROGER EBERT: GREAT FILMS TO WATCH – 1986 (2:14)
- GOOD MORNING AMERICA: WEAVER & HENN INTERVIEW (4:41)
- CHANNEL 4 – LIVE AT FIVE: MICHAEL BIEHN INTERVIEW (4:34)
- ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT: VIDEO PREVIEW (0:47)
- WHEN MUSCLES RULED THE WORLD (3:29)
- PEOPLE TV: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY CAST REUNIONS – ALIENS (34:46)
- IN SEARCH OF THE LAST ACTION HEROES (2:50)
- IN SEARCH OF THE LAST ACTION HEROES: JENETTE GOLDSTEIN INTERVIEW (0:28)
- IN SEARCH OF TOMORROW (8:01)
- SHUDDER: THE 101 SCARIEST HORROR MOVIE MOMENTS OF ALL TIME (3:46)
- YAHOO! ENTERTAINMENT: JAMES CAMERON’S DIRECTOR’S REEL (1:39)
- TRAILERS: ALIENS VS. PINBALL / FIRETEAM ELITE / DARK DESCENT (6:15)
I already have all 10 BUT i will put your set on my seedbox to help out with this. My set comes to 46.2gigs.
My Alien Appendix 2 says PAL and is 7.59 gigs. I guess you have AA02a…i have AA02…
AA02 – Alien Redux – “The Virtual Workprint” – Dual-Layer anamorphic – Version 1.0 – July 2006
AA02a – Alien Redux – “The Virtual Workprint” – Single-Layer non-anamorphic – Version 1.0 – July 2006