Whenmaking an Alien moviethree things are a must.
Without them, you cant have the other two.
Second, a Chestburster.
Isabela Merced in Alien: Romulus.Image: Fox
This is just a smaller version of the thirdbut still absolutely crucial.
Then, third, a full-on Xenomorph.
Those acid-blooded killers that like tomurder entire crews of spaceships.
David Jonsson as Andy, the synthetic in the film.Image: Fox
The first scene starts with a few characters entering a Weyland-Yutani ship.
Do they work for the company?
Are they just investigating?
It seems more like the latter but its not made clear.
Meanwhile, someone pulls a switch and several pods begin to move.
Meanwhile, more and more of the pods start to move… and grow… and eventually, hatch.
It freaks them out.
Then another one brushes up on someone else.
Finally, a full Facehugger jumps out of the water and tries to implant itself.
One person is able to fight one off.
Its very gross, but very great.
The people in the locked room continue to fight off the growing number of Facehuggers as they keep hatching.
The woman is holding her stomach and takes the X-ray torch from the previous scene and scans her chest.
It reveals something big, moving inside of her, and smashing at her ribs to come out.
Merced grabs her friend who is now scared, in pain, and convulsing.
Now theyre floating around in space with this thing smashing against her chest and everyone is freaking out.
This is when the big moment happens.
The creature inside her finally makes progress and cracks through the womans chest.
However, compared to previous Alien movies, this somehow seemed a bit more brutal.
Thats what the chest burst looked like.
Finally, the alien pops out and starts screaming its little squeaky head off.
A big explosion happens.
That then leads into a montage of shots from later in the movie including several of the full-on Xenomorph.
Well see more August 16.
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