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People of c/bmoviebonanza, what are some of your favourite Alien (1979) inspired movies/rip-offs?
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Ridley Scott's Alien has inspired many filmmakers to make their own version of the science fiction/horror classic. Which ones do you really enjoy watching?
"Galaxy of Terror" for sure.The movie is quite bad, but is also powerfully unnerving cosmic horror.
Funnily enough, production design by one Jim Cameron lol If you watch Aliens after, you can see he copied himself a bit, in a good way.
Galaxy of Terror is great! Cameron's production design is what elevates this movie above other Alien ripoffs. The scene where the alien worm creature forces itself on a woman is also noteworthy.
I like the movie more and more upon rewatches. I think it's legitimately scary, if you can get past the hammy-ness. You're right though, the production design does a lot of heavy lifting.
Tentacle grape before it was cool (in USA).
It amused me to no end that his work on this cash-in of Alien basically got him the job for the sequel, Aliens.
Well, kinda. Terminator happened and was a smash hit, that helped a little 😂