ALIEN DOMICILE ** USA 2017 Dir: Kelly Schwarze 70 mins Although technically competent, this relatively ambitious low-budget sci-fi chiller riffs heavily on prominent mainstream genre fare of the last two decades and devolves into a ponderous succession of hallucinatory visuals, jump scares and weak confrontations. After a Charles Darwin quote,…
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ALIEN ***** USA/UK 1979 Dir: Ridley Scott. 115 mins (The Director’s Cut) / 116 mins. It’s easy to forget, in the wake of its more action and FX-driven sequels, just how wonderfully slow-burn creepy the original ALIEN is. Heavily influenced by much lower-budget genre fare like IT! THE TERROR…