Screen Rant discusses the upcoming “Alien: Romulus” film and its choice to feature inexperienced characters, a familiar trope in horror. This approach, reminiscent of “Prometheus,” aims to enhance tension and vulnerability, providing a fresh angle to the enduring Alien franchise by focusing on characters who are ill-equipped to face the iconic xenomorph threat.
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A lot of people forget that Alien is as much a horror film as it is science fiction, and with that, you’re going to get the occasional trope.
The babysitter is going to run upstairs. They’re gonna knock out the bad guy and sit next to them and cry instead of finishing them off. Someone’s gonna let the stranger in. Someone’s going to forget their inhaler or insulin.
It happens, it’s never a deal breaker. The only reason people bag on Prometheus is because it’s a prequel that challenges some of the lore established in the first two films.
It’s because people in horror movies don’t know they’re in horror movies. The people in Prometheus think that they’re in E.T. or Close Encounters not an Alien prequel. The audience knows the genre of movie that they’re watching, the characters don’t.
Can you imagine if Elliott curbstomped E.T. when he first met him?
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A lot of people forget that Alien is as much a horror film as it is science fiction, and with that, you’re going to get the occasional trope.
The babysitter is going to run upstairs. They’re gonna knock out the bad guy and sit next to them and cry instead of finishing them off. Someone’s gonna let the stranger in. Someone’s going to forget their inhaler or insulin.
It happens, it’s never a deal breaker. The only reason people bag on Prometheus is because it’s a prequel that challenges some of the lore established in the first two films.
It’s because people in horror movies don’t know they’re in horror movies. The people in Prometheus think that they’re in E.T. or Close Encounters not an Alien prequel. The audience knows the genre of movie that they’re watching, the characters don’t.
Can you imagine if Elliott curbstomped E.T. when he first met him?
This is the most schizophrenic franchise