FILM
ALIEN: ROMULUS
THIS SEQUEL WAS MOSTLY FILMED AT NIGHT. MOSTLY
Aliens
In space, no-one can hear you scream, “Try mouthwash!”
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 119 MINS
DIRECTOR Fede Alvarez
CAST Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu
PLOT Decades after the events of the Nostromo, a group of miners on a distant space colony attempt to retrieve cryopods from a deserted ship. They soon find the ship is overrun with mysterious alien creatures…
SEQUELS TO THE landmark 1979 space horror Alien have ranged from the superlative (Aliens) to the mixed-bag (Alien Resurrection) to the messily philosophical (Prometheus) to the best forgotten (Alien Vs. Predator). Director Fede Alvarez’s latest gambit for the franchise is a smart one: to take the best elements of the two best films in the series —Ridley Scott’s original and James Cameron’s original sequel —and squash them together, with the force of a facehugger.