The ninth film of the series starring Cailee Spaeny offers a heart-pounding return to B-movie form.
Set in the period between Alien and Aliens on a bleak mining planet run by the ruthless Weyland-Yutani Corporation, a group of young people, sick of being treated like slaves, plot their escape to a better world. Rain and her lifelong android companion Andy – along with friends Tyler , Kay , Bjorn and Navarro – hatch an exit plan that involves breaking into a derelict space station.
Uruguayan director and co-writer Fede Alvarez has shown the way forward for the horror franchise, which till now has found itself mired in philosophising or the same old running and screaming . At its heart, the first film was a B-movie, a “ghost ship” slasher-horror flick complete with a final girl survivor, except it was set in space, with a budget to match.
Alvarez proves that when the horror label is worn with pride, a gory B-movie can have a place in the summer blockbuster line-up.
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