Alien: Specimen

Found it on Youtube and watched this since I am an Alien fan.

From decent to great acting. Well shot. Good short story. I would watch it again. It definitely left you wanting to know more.

What else can I ask for?

What weirded me out was that I was convinced the whole thing was CGI/Animated with really good motion capture. Don't know why, something they did to the images made them look artificial. Not a bad thing, just a thing.

Something's amiss in a remote extraterrestrial greenhouse staffed by a woman and her dog.

This short movie is def worth the watch. Sure, it's obviously a low budget piece, but if you set the drawbacks of that aside, it's a fun, well written and well acted 10 minutes window into the Alien universe.

My only more serious gripe is that the music the heroine listens to for a while doesn't really suit the tone of the setting and is a bit immersion-breaking. I understand it's supposed to create contrast, but it's a little too out of place. They should've went for something like the radio songs in Alien: Isolation (check that on YouTube, search for "alien isolation radio", listen to a few songs.) YMMV, though, obviously. And despite this, this short gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

Alien: Specimen is a solid short film-maybe even the best of the six in the Alien Anthology series. It delivers genuine suspense and horror, along with some dynamic action. The casting for the protagonist was spot on; she even gave me a few Ripley vibes.

The third film in the Alien franchise might be the weakest overall, but it did introduce one interesting element: a dog. This short also features a dog, and I actually enjoyed that addition a lot. What surprised me most, though, was the plot twist at the end. I genuinely didn't see it coming, and it managed to catch me off guard in the best way.

There are a lot of short films directed at the Alien Trilogy movies. Being a fan of all the Alien films I feel that " The Specimen" and Harvest are the best and I feel they would make great full movies if ever made. I am from the era of the very first Alien movie ever made and have been hooked ever since. Ripley really made the movies interesting and the Alien vs Preditor movies were ok but I prefer to keep the story line the same. They should really think about turning these into full length movies I would definitely watch them.