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    The Best Alien Movies (2020): Movie Monsters
    The Best Alien Movies (2020): Movie Monsters
    The Best Alien Movies (2020): Movie Monsters
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    The Best Alien Movies (2020): Movie Monsters

    By Steve Hutchison

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    Steve Hutchison reviews 60 of his favorite alien movies. Each article includes a synopsis, a review, and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Hutchison
    Release dateFeb 14, 2023
    ISBN9781778870736
    The Best Alien Movies (2020): Movie Monsters
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    Steve Hutchison

    Artist, developer and entrepreneur in film, video games and communications Steve Hutchison co-founded Shade.ca Art and Code in 1999, then Terror.ca and its French equivalent Terreur.ca in 2000. With his background as an artist and integrator, Steve worked on such games as Capcom's Street Fighter, PopCap's Bejeweled, Tetris, Bandai/Namco's Pac-Man and Mattel's Skip-Bo & Phase 10 as a localization manager, 2-D artist and usability expert. Having acquired skills in gamification, he invented a unique horror movie review system that is filterable, searchable and sortable by moods, genres, subgenres and antagonists. Horror movie fans love it, and so do horror authors and filmmakers, as it is a great source of inspiration. In March 2013, Steve launched Tales of Terror, with the same goals in mind but with a much finer technology and a complex engine, something that wasn’t possible initially. He has since published countless horror-themed books.

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      The Best Alien Movies (2020) - Steve Hutchison

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      Tales of Terror’s

      Movie Monsters 2020

      The Best Alien Movies

      INTRODUCTION

      Steve Hutchison reviews 60 of his favorite alien movies. Each article includes a synopsis, a review, and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

      #1

      Total Recall

      1990

      A man goes for a virtual vacation on planet Mars as a spy.

      8/8

      Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone and Michael Ironside, to name a few; Total Recall has some of the best Hollywood actors at the peak of their career and offering some of their best performances yet. This is a smart action-packed science fiction masterpiece directed by none other than Paul Verhoeven and based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. What a delight!

      It has some of the best and catchiest music in film history. It contains several futuristic concepts we haven’t seen before. It has a confusing storyline that plays with your mind but makes perfect sense when all is said and done. The script constantly gets you wondering what is real, what is virtual, and you may not get straight answers by the time the end credits roll.

      Everything in Total Recall, from the cars to the architecture, has a futuristic yet somewhat primitive look. The film has its own aesthetic and looks like nothing else. The make-up required to make us believe we are among mutants is quite elaborate and very realistic. Action, aliens, technology, romance, gore; you have it all. Total Recall is, without a doubt, one of the best movies ever made!

      #2

      The Faculty

      1998

      Six students find out their teachers are from another planet.

      8/8

      A splendid cast is introduced very early on, including the protagonists who are presented through character cards right after an epic prologue. There are obvious Body Snatchers and Scream influences, here. It’s no coincidence that Kevin Williamson, of Scream fame, is screenwriting. The Faculty is punctuated by an amazing rock soundtrack just when you think the film couldn’t get any cooler.

      The students, in The Faculty, are mentally and physically abusive, from the get go, so we’re not sure exactly what they become when they’re possessed, and that’s a grey zone that never gets addressed. Some of the infected become more aggressive and some more passive. All characters are right out of a comic book and the acting is irreproachable. In fact, the film itself is almost perfect.

      The Faculty is as mainstream as horror films get, but horror buffs will see it from a particular angle. It’s an alien invasion, a slasher, a whodunit and, well, it’s teen horror. What else is there to like? The actors are amazing: Josh Hartnett, Famke Janssen, Robert Patrick, Laura Harris, Salma Hayek, Piper Laurie, Usher Raymond and Elijah Wood, to name a few.

      #3

      Aliens

      1986

      The survivor of a space invasion awakened from stasis by her employer is asked to assist a troop of soldiers in hunting aliens.

      8/8

      Ripley, played by returning actress Sigourney Weaver, is offered a promotion if she resumes her nightmare. She accepts, curiously, but for the good of a franchise’s birth. This time, her friends have big guns! They are not pencil pushers stuck in space; they’re tough soldiers on a kamikaze mission. Aliens is more military and borrows from action flicks, as well as horror and science-fiction.

      Everything is bigger, more frantic, rougher. There is sporadically elongated group dialogue and the movie has many crowded, elaborate battle scenes. It also behaves like a slasher film, as the support characters meet their end in dark corners. There is plenty of room for character exposition and it significantly pays

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