Title 013 on the 101 Films Black Label will be the UK Blu-ray debut for action-packed sci-fi thriller SCREAMERS (1995), starring Peter Weller (Robocop) and based on the Philip K. Dick short story Second Variety. Synopsis: The year is 2078. The man is rebel Alliance Commander Col. Joseph Hendricksson…
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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…
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…
DARK STAR **** USA 1974 Dir: John Carpenter. 83 mins Carpenter’s laconic feature debut follows a bored quartet of U.S. astronauts on board the “Dark Star”. They’ve been travelling for 20 years and both Earth people and Congress have lost interest in the process, while the Commander (his body cryogenically…