Would a Alien Analog Horror work?

[Wweyland]

Didn't Alien: Covenant promise us analog horror with the retro-style spaceship like Alien? Instead, we got holograms and crap.

[Thatguy2068]

Didn't Alien: Covenant promise us analog horror with the retro-style spaceship like Alien? Instead, we got holograms and crap.

I wouldn't say crap but yeah it wasn't like analog horror

[SM]

So like a movie version of Alien Blackout? I think that's already on YouTube.

The genre is a lot more versatile than that. It doesn't have to be from a security camera's point of view like the Paranormal series.

Versatile how?

[Immortan Jonesy]

[SM]

So watched about half of that and I'm not sure how it goes much beyond watching Aliens on security cameras like Blackout. Could make for some creepy scares - not sure how you'd maintain it though.

[Local Trouble]

John Carpenter knew how to do it well.

[Immortan Jonesy]

So watched about half of that and I'm not sure how it goes much beyond watching Aliens on security cameras like Blackout. Could make for some creepy scares - not sure how you'd maintain it though.

I'm not even sure myself if it would work with Alien. Analog Horror (aka Nostalgia Horror) seems like a proto-genre; an amalgamation of various internet phenomena such as; liminal space, alternate reality games, digital horror, etc. In a way a successor to the creepypastas
and as such it seems to perform better as an internet experience.

[Local Trouble]

I wonder if the beast is so cooked that even something like the alley scene from Signs would be ineffective at making it scary again.

[SM]

It might work in different lighting.  Maybe. Not in full light like that.

[Thatguy2068]

Yeah it probably work better in the dark

[Immortan Jonesy]

Imagine being 100% alone on a ship, with those old school sounds on the hardware! Nightmare fuel for sure.😅

The aesthetics of the first film are made for analog horror. I think even the AI thing that Scott loves so much would be more terrifying here.

[ralfy]

That's what I felt when I saw the first movie in the theaters. I kept imagining that the creature would attack Dallas or Ripley in the computer booth or would be waiting outside the door.

[SM]

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Imagine being 100% alone on a ship, with those old school sounds on the hardware! Nightmare fuel for sure.😅

The aesthetics of the first film are made for analog horror. I think even the AI thing that Scott loves so much would be more terrifying here.

If I was 100% alone then I'd be very grateful of the opportunity to chill and do nothing for a bit.

[kwisatz]

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[Thatguy2068]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ywWFvjE-yU
Imagine being 100% alone on a ship, with those old school sounds on the hardware! Nightmare fuel for sure.😅

The aesthetics of the first film are made for analog horror. I think even the AI thing that Scott loves so much would be more terrifying here.

So Skinamarink in space? That would be pretty terrifying. Maybe we can the Xenomorph be more of a serial killer rather the animal like.