The power of the horror genre at the moment is pretty astounding when you think about it – low cost of productions, strong possibility of high-profit margins, almost critic proof despite the raging battle between studios and Rotten Tomatoes over recent months – so it really is no surprise that sequels are a healthy business even if the film that preceded it wasn’t much cop in the first…
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The symbolism associated with a red door goes back through the history of stories, with its intrinsic links to danger, the beyond and further beyond. In the opening moments of writer/director Trey Edward Shults’ mysterious horror/thriller, we are presented with such a symbol, a warning sign right from the off that this one is going to take us down some dark, ominous alleys, figuratively,…
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Like its 1979 predecessor, Alien: Covenant is essentially a haunted house movie in space with plenty of screams to go around.
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Heavily influenced by Alien, though somewhat too closely at times, it’s in the antagonist of the piece where such similarities are effective, for we have no way of understanding Calvin, and what it’s capable of.
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