{"id":14286,"date":"2019-05-04T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14286"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:22:22","slug":"alien-40th-anniversary-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/alien-40th-anniversary-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien 40th anniversary short films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The organism&#8230; it has a unique replication cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the 40th anniversary of <strong>Alien<\/strong>, 6 short films were released. Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alien: Containment &#8212; directed by Chris Reading<\/li>\n<li>Alien: Specimen &#8212; directed by Kelsey Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Alien: Ore &#8212; directed by Kailey Spear &amp; Sam Spear<\/li>\n<li>Alien: Alone &#8212; directed by Noah Miller<\/li>\n<li>Alien: Harvest &#8212; directed by Benjamin Howdeshell<\/li>\n<li>Alien: Night Shift &#8212; directed by Aiden Michael Brezonick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s slice of terrifying life in the <strong>Alien<\/strong> universe. The films are very effective, not showing too much of the alien but showing the terror on peoples&#8217; faces. Watch to the end of the credits of <strong>Containment<\/strong> for another few seconds of footage.<\/p>\n<p>The mood, the sets, and the acting are all terrific. The storylines fit nicely into what we know about the <strong>Alien<\/strong> universe. The special effects are probably as good as the original <strong>Alien<\/strong> for a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The shorts are between 9 and 12 minutes or so, long enough to have heroes and villains &#8212; and long enough to be afraid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hu_4PgSXbDY\">Here<\/a> is the link to the 1st one, on the IGN YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>The music in <strong>Alone<\/strong> by Joel Santos was reminiscent of Jerry Goldsmith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alien<\/strong> fans will find these shorts intriguing. My favourite one was <strong>Ore<\/strong>, in which some miners decide to handle the problem their way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The organism&#8230; it has a unique replication cycle.&#8221; To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alien, 6 short films were released. Here they are: Alien: Containment &#8212; directed by Chris Reading Alien: Specimen &#8212; directed by Kelsey Taylor Alien: Ore &#8212; directed by Kailey Spear &amp; Sam Spear Alien: Alone &#8212; directed by Noah Miller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,8,111],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14321,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/14321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}