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(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—work...

Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff Alien Day 2021 Interview Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff Alien Day 2021 Interview Posted by Darkness on May 7, 2021 (Updated: 07-May-2021) Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis are the founders of special effects studio, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. They worked on Aliens under Stan Winston before forming they’re own studio. They’ve worked on many films since then including handling the effects on Alien 3, AvP Requiem and The Predator. We originally did an interview with both o...

Nostromo until one last, surprise showdown with the alien, which she then — finally — blasts into space. It’s a fantastic ending. The culmination of an undeniable masterpiece. Now imagine sitting down to watch Alien and not know what’s going to happen. Maybe everyone lives. Maybe everyone dies. Later this summer, that’ll be up to you: Ravensburger is releasing a brand new board game called Alien: Fate of the Nostromo. It’s a collaborative, strategy-based, thriller board game that...

As a way of celebrating Alien Day, here's a ton of new merch from fashion, to toys, to xenomorph glasses that would make Ellen Ripley proud.

Aliens Star Has Best Reaction to This Years "Alien Day" With Alien fans around the world all taking part in "Alien Day" on social media, star of Aliens Lance Henriksen also got in on the action, hilariously captioning a photo of his character being killed by describing it as a chess move. While Sigourney Weaver is easily the most well-known star of the franchise, having appeared in all four original Alien films, Henriksen debuted in 1986s Aliens, going on to have small roles in both Alien ...

1.6k Views Just in time for 2021’s International Alien Day, on which space marines and xenomorphs around the world celebrate the legacy of Ridley Scott’s Alien film franchise, fashion designers Micheline Pitt and Lynh Haaga have launched a brand new line inspired by the 1979 horror classic. Platelet Harness in Black Faux Leather | La Femme en Noir La Femme en Noir, an LA-based fashion brand launched by Haaga and Pitt in 2016 offering luxury gothic fashion, previously collaborated with Pa...

New Aliens: Fireteam Images Tease The Return Of Engineers For those not aware of the name, it belongs to an upcoming third-person co-op shooter which pits a group of Colonial Marines against the unending Xenomorph threat. Inspired primarily by James Cameron’s celebrated sequel to the 1979 movie, this spinoff features not one, two, three, or even one hundred aliens, but thousands. In fact, many of the species you’ll find in the far reaches of space will be never-before-seen mutant strains, e...

Happy Alien Day! Super7 Reveals New Xenomorphs, Hudson ReAction Posted on Happy Alien Day everyone. A horror holiday that everyone can appreciate, Super7 is celebrating by revealing a new wave of Xenomorphs and a special variant of their Hudson figure. The latter will feature a cardback baring his iconic line "Game Over Man, Game Over!". The figure features a new screaming head as well, and it is a perfect homage to both that moment and Bill Paxton himself. This is a great special figure and ...

Mondo Debuts Stunning Black-and-White Print for ALIEN Day Twitter Another Alien Day is upon us. Yes, April 26, or 4/26, is so named after the planet the Nostromo crew lands on in the original Ridley Scott film. This mysterious uninhabited world doesn’t have a name, just a designation: LV-426. And we all know just what they found there, and it wasn’t pretty. In recent years, we’ve taken to celebrating the premiere horror/sci-fi franchise on this day. Hey, if Alien? As a way of commemora...

Soul — unsurprisingly — winning the award for Best Animated Feature. But the biggest upset of night was Sir Anthony Hopkins receiving the award for Best Actor for his performance in Florian Zeller’s drama The Father ... and not being around to receive it! Who could’ve seen that twist coming? Certainly not Sir Hopkins, that’s for sure! Besides the Oscars, we watched a whole bunch of other cool stuff over the weekend. From the season final of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Davi...