Tag Archives: Ronald Shusett

Alien: Romulus review — Alien recreated, for better and worse

August 19, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Fede Alvarez | Written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues, based on characters by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave You could call this Alien 7, maybe even Alien 9 if you include those two Aliens vs Predator movies, but nobody does because they're awful. Director Alvarez is already a… Read More

Alien series review

January 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett | 117 min | Crave Plus Alien has been around so long it's kind of hard to imagine the world without those cute lil' exomorphs that kinda look like stainless steel dildos with teeth. When I was a kid I remember… Read More

Alien and Prometheus: Observations, questions and (a few) answers

June 11, 2012 flawintheiris

In a recent issue of Empire Magazine, Simon Braund started like this in a piece about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: "It's easy to scoff at the weight of cultural significance so often foisted on sci-fi and horror films—chin-stroking cineastes, seemingly oblivious to the films' primary objective (i.e. to scare the pants off folk), teasing… Read More