MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN **** USA 2019 Dir: Alexandre O. Philippe. 95 mins Writer-director Alexandre O. Philippe’s feature documentary career has often nodded to the horror and sci-fi genres and their fanbase, notably with EARTHLINGS: UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER, DOC OF THE DEAD and 78/52. As with the…
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The iconic scenes and sequences from seminal sci-fi horror ALIEN are firmly embedded in film history and popular culture: the creepy eggs and HR Giger designed spacecraft on a long dead planet; the pivotal facehugger attaching itself to one of the crew of the Nostromo; the shocking chest-bursting sequence and…