Posted on 05/19/2017 9:36:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
The new “Alien: Covenant” boasts stellar production design, Michael Fassbender’s subtly masterful dual performance and thoughtful musings about the creation of life.
But that’s not why anyone is going to see it. They want to see how Ridley Scott’s prequel to his groundbreakingly gory, 1979 “Alien” — a film that delivered on its pitch line “In space no one can hear you scream” — tops the chest-bursting slaughter of the original sci-fi classic.
“I think Ridley’s first line was, ‘We’re going to make a hard R-rated film, and we’re going to need a lot of claret,’ which is a term for film blood,” “Covenant” producer Mark Huffam remembers in the film’s production notes.
Whether or not he knew it at the time, Scott’s film wound up not only competing with fond, nightmarish memories of his first bloody masterpiece, but with a 2017 movie planet in which “Covenant” is only one in a parade of releases that spray the claret like a bunch of drunken Xenomorphs.
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Ummm no. I mean OK I haven’t seen it yet but I doubt it’ll get up to Maniac level, and most of the reviews are comparing it to Hammer Horror not splatter horror. If it was gunning for most violent ever I’d expect comparisons with Re-Aimator, especially since he wrote the first Alien.
I love me a good action movie, but I just can’t get into this over the top stuff. To each his own, I guess.
Before CGI Total Recall v1 takes the cake.
Will not go to see it.
For pure, unadulterated gore, you can’t beat “Fried Green Tomatoes”.
I still have nightmares about that one.
This movie, with the cast in it, looks like some sort of sequel to “Prometheus”, from two or three years ago.
I think this thing ran out of steam a long time ago.
Alien was an uncredited remake of the ‘50s rubber monster suit flick It, The Terror From Beyond Space. Anyone else remember watching that (actually quite good) movie?
That was my first thought: Has this guy ever seen Re-Animator or Dawn of the Dead?
I don’t know about the most violent year in Movies, go back to the late 1960’s and 1970’s, lot of violent films during those years.
The worst one that I ever saw was called "Culpepper Cattle Company" ...
Puh-leeze, Mr. Squeamish McAuthor, you obviously didn’t live through the late 70s - early 80s slasher film fad.
You have to look to foreigners for truly soul-destroying gore movies. You know, those “enlightened” Europeans? They can warp the brains of guys who watch Jason Voorhees marathons.
The French are really big into it, but if you want to question the existence of a Supreme Being and why He would allow mankind to create such horrible things, I’ve got three words: “A Serbian Film”. Never, EVER watch that movie.
Yes, I’ve seen it.
I still have nightmares about that one.
Yeah, the independent theaters should pair that one up with The Bridges of Madison County for a double-header scream fest.
Hey how about “The Wild Bunch”?
Yup, they even twist up the holiday fare. Have a look at "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale" sometime.
“The radiation will kill it. It’s enough to kill 100 men!”
Love that movie. I still have it on DVD. That and Howard Hawks’ “The Thing” make a still eerie and disturbing double feature. All the more so because of what you don’t see. A concept that is currently lost in an age of laughable CGI splatter.
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