accept Out,Life and Alien: Covenant are gruesome reminders that being taken over by someone (or something) else is as terrifying as ever. Spoilers aheadWe tend to deem back fondly on the recently departed, but movie-goers will mainly remember the late John Hurt racked with pain, or clutching his ribcage as a hostile extraterrestrial bursts out of him like a visceral jack-in-the-box. His spectacularly violent death in sci-fi/horror landmark Alien still stands as the film’s crowning achievement over 35 years after the fact,a sublime fusion of the gory and the unsettling. Viewers could hardly blame director Ridley Scott for drawing from that same well for his upcoming sequel Alien: Covenant, the trailer for which teases a tweak on the concept with a back-bursting parasite. Casts approach and travel, and but the terror of playing host to a creature exploding out of your torso is eternal. Related: Alien: Covenant trailer: five things we've learned about the xenomorph saga Related: Life review Jake Gyllenhaal hits the retro rockets for sub-Alien space horror Continue reading...
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