Well, fifty episodes! Dark Discussions
reaches a milestone of some significance but just like prior weeks we
are here once more to discuss genre cinema intelligently, in depth, and
like fans should: with passion. This week your four co-hosts come
together once more and decided on a topic that happens to be
thirty-three years old. Unlike the age of the film itself, the movie is
once more about to have relevance that could determine the fate of big
budget R-rated horror films for decades to come.
Alien, 1979’s science fiction masterpiece,
came together with an odd mix of talent and luck. Screenwriter Dan
O’Bannon, suffering from crohn’s disease, came up with an idea of an
alien entity using human hosts as incubators. He turned his personal
discomfort from his illness into one of the most iconic scenes in film
history.
Director Ridley Scott, film scorer Jerry
Goldsmith, and artist H.R. Giger came aboard and with the highly
figuratively filled script produced a dark horrific movie that turned
science fiction film from Star Trek cheese to industrial working class
grime. Now over thirty years later, with both Dan O’Bannon and Jerry
Goldsmith no longer with us, Ridley Scott once more has returned to the
source of his success. Using Alien as a basis, his new film 2012’s
Prometheus is to be released in June. The film trailers have brought
high hopes to all science fiction and horror fans alike. Your co-hosts,
Chris, Eric, Mike, and Phil discuss Alien, its legacy, and how
Prometheus may tie back in with the original. Listeners, thank you for
coming along on our fifty episode podcast journey, and as co-host Eric
suggests in closing, let’s do fifty more.
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