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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for the Alien franchise.

Of all of horror’s many sagas, few have produced such complex and dynamic female characters as the Alien franchise. From space-trekking astronauts and idealistic scientists to outlaw clones and alien queens, this cinematic galaxy is bursting with inspirational – and sometimes despicable – women fighting for their own survival.

Though Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) remains the series’ most enduring character, each chapter in the century-spanning saga either delivers a new female warrior or expands our understanding of the story’s original survivor.

Alien (1979)

Ridley Scott’s Alien sets the tone for a landmark series in cinematic female empowerment. The Uscss Nostromo is not only guided by an AI system known as Mother, two women occupy prominent roles in the disparate crew. When their mission is interrupted by a new directive from executives of the Weyland-Yutani corporation, the disgruntled team lands on...

Alright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill. There have been plenty of documentaries about Aliens before, as anyone who has owned the beloved 1986 sci-fi sequel from James Cameron on its various formats can attest (some hardcore fans still insist the 1992 LaserDisc Special Edition release has never been bettered). But there has never been any documentary quite as extensive, expansive or exhaustive as Aliens Expanded, a title that lives heartily up to its name due to a near-five-hour runtime — not quite as long as an unusually long hypersleep, but not far off. It comes from writer-director Ian Nathan, who has literally written the book on the film.

As with 2019’s Memory: The Origins Of Alien, about Ridley Scott’s original film (also featuring contributions from Nathan), this aims to be the definitive take on a definitive genre classic. With a runtime like that, it is fair to...

Let’s face it, streaming services have lost a lot of their appeal. Between their ever shifting libraries, their kneecapping of theaters, and their tendency to overwhelm viewers with substandard garbage, it’s hard to be excited about our streaming present. Heck, most services now play the same couple of ads over and over, even for paying customers!

With every annoying insurance ad and every movie suddenly shoved from a service you bought to a different service you don’t have, Tubi looks better and better. Tubi is one of many free streaming services available online. Like most other services, free or otherwise, Tubi interrupts the programming with occasional ads.

But Tubi also has an outstanding library, one that rivals Max, with its oft-threatened TCM and Ghibli channels. Still, Tubi can be overwhelming to some users, who can’t always see the gems alongside stinkers such as Big Stan (starring Rob Schneider!

Yaphet Kotto as Jean-Luc Picard? Wesley Snipes as Geordi? Jenny Agutter as Dr. Crusher?

Gene Roddenberry considered all of these actors for Star Trek: The Next Generation before casting Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, and Gates McFadden. However, the most surprising alternate idea for a Tng character involved Tasha Yar, the ill-fated security chief aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

The Tale of Macha Hernandez

The Tng series bible, released before the show premiered as a guide for writers and actors, describes Yar in terms similar, if not completely one-to-one, with the character we know from the series. “Born at a ‘failed’ Earth colony of renegades and other violent undesirables, she escaped to Earth in her teens and discovered Starfleet, which she still ‘worships’ today as the complete opposite of all the ugliness she once knew,” the description explains.

Portrayed by Denise Crosby, Tasha Yar did show great loyalty to Picard and the Enterprise,...

Ian Nathan, author of Alien Vault, Terminator Vault, Stephen King at the Movies, The Legend of Mad Max, and books about filmmakers James Cameron, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, the Coen brothers, the Coppolas, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, and Clint Eastwood, is teaming up with Creatorvc, the production company behind documentaries like the In Search of Darkness trilogy, In Search of Tomorrow, and First Person Shooter to bring us a new documentary called Aliens Expanded, a 4-hour examination of writer/director James Cameron’s 1986 classic Aliens. Copies are available for pre-order through Aliens-Expanded.com, and they say if you get in your order before May 5th you’ll get your name in the credits. Digital copies are expected to be delivered in June, with physical copies shipping out in July.

Featuring interviews with Cameron, Aliens cast members Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Mark Rolston, Jenette Goldstein,...

Clockwise from upper left: James Cameron directing Titanic (YouTube/Screenshot), David Cronenberg directing The Fly (YouTube/Screenshot), Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters (YouTube/Screenshot), Mary Harron (Eric Robert-Getty)Graphic: AVClub

Lots of great things have come from Canada: The snowmobile was invented there, so were insulin, the electron microscope, and, oddly enough,...

Since its launch, Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program has supported a wide variety of projects: shorts, features, both narrative and nonfiction. Not to mention the occasional new media project, special event or advocacy initiative. Each month’s Fiscal Spotlight column announces three new projects taking part in the program.

But maybe you’re curious how some of those prior subjects have turned out. Well hey, you’re in luck! Once again it’s time for another FiSpo Update highlighting the recent achievements of previous Fiscal Spotlight subjects.

Film Independent’s Fiscal Sponsorship program opens the door to nonprofit funding for independent filmmakers and media artists. The projects and makers participating in the program express a uniqueness of vision, celebrate diversity and advance the craft of filmmaking through the creation of these special works. To see the full range of projects that are part of our program, visit our Sponsored Projects page.

With Valentine’s Day arriving next week, we here at Arrow in the Head decided that this was a good time to put together a list of some of the Best Horror Movies to Watch on Valentine’s Day. The movies listed below all deal with love, romance, or infatuation in some way, ranging from stories of love-hungry killers to films with lead characters who are in sweet, wholesome relationships. Check it out, and let us know if you have any suggestions for movies to watch on Valentine’s Day!

The Mummy (1932)

While future entries in Universal’s Mummy franchise would (until the more recent reboots) present the character as a bandage-wrapped monster that likes to strangle people and carry women around, Karl Freund’s 1932 version of The Mummy allowed the legendary Boris Karloff to give more of a performance in the title role. Ditching his bandages after being released from his tomb,...

In the previous episode of The Arrow in the Head Show, hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek were joined by Chris Margetis of The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre to discuss one of my all-time favorite films, the 1986 classic Trick or Treat. In the new episode, The Arrow and Lance are revisiting another ’80s classic, one of my favorite vampire movies, Near Dark (watch it Here)! To find out what they had to say about Near Dark, check out the video embedded above.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay she wrote with Eric Red, Near Dark has the following synopsis:

Cowboy Caleb Colton meets gorgeous Mae at a bar, and the two have an immediate attraction. But when Mae turns out to be a vampire and bites Caleb on the neck, their relationship gets complicated. Wracked with a craving for human blood, Caleb is forced to leave...

Played by Jenette Goldstein (Near Dark) in James Cameron’s Aliens, Private Vasquez is one of the sequel’s best characters, and she’s next getting her own spotlight with a new book. Entertainment Weekly has announced Aliens: Vasquez this afternoon, being released later this year from Titan Books. It was written by V. Castro (The Queen of […]

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by Nick Taylor

My boyfriend had seen Aliens before we watched it together recently. Of course he had. Tommy loves science fiction and Aliens is one of the few perfect movies ever made in any genre, with so many elements that are not just immaculately assembled and realized in their own right but tremendously influential to how cinema subsequently related to sci-fi and war films. What’s undeniably stock about its characters and scenario is fresh and alive to behold, mixing an absolute lack of subtlety with nuance, modulation, and unimpeachable judgement.

This is certainly the case with Jenette Goldstein’s performance as Private Vasquez, a member of the military unit assigned to accompany Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her Weyland-Yutani Corporation handler Burke (Paul Reiser) to a terraformed colony on a planet that may or may not already be lost...

Flashback Weekend is taking place later this month with an incredible lineup of horror guests and a unique photo op with the original Ford Ltd station wagon from John Carpenter's Halloween. We have all the details on the event below, along with a picture of the newly restored station wagon. For more details and to purchase tickets, make sure to visit: http://www.flashbackweekend.com/

Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Con July 30- Aug. 1, 2021 presents an epic “John Carpenter’s Halloween” (1978) and “Halloween Kills” (2021) reunion featuring the biggest star (literally) of the original 1978 classic. That, of course, is the original 1978 Ltd Station Wagon which Michael Myers stole and used to stalk his victims throughout Haddonfield, Illinois. For decades, fans have been wondering what happened to this iconic vehicle. The original 1978 Ford Ltd station wagon was rented from a car rental agency for two weeks of filming. After filming was completed, the...

The 19th annual Flashback Weekend may be months away, but the announcements surrounding Chicago’s longest running horror convention have been coming in hot and heavy over the last few weeks, and genre fans in the Midwest definitely do not want to miss out on all the Flashback festivities that will be headed to the Hyatt Regency O’Hare Chicago (Fbw’s new home!) from Friday, July 31st through Sunday, August 2nd, 2020.

While Flashback has already announced a slew of impressive guests for this year’s convention, including Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Nick Castle, Kane Hodder, Jenette Goldstein, Mark Rolston, Quinn Lord, Sandy Johnson and Peter Cowper, but for 2020, they’re also bringing together some of the most iconic vehicles in the horror genre, including the long-lost station wagon from John Carpenter’s original Halloween, which fans will have the opportunity to not only sit in,...

Daily Dead's celebration of Women in Horror Month continues with two very special guests on this episode of the Corpse Club podcast!

Continuing our Women in Horror Month celebration, Heather Wixson is joined by special guests Emily von Seele (horror journalist and co-host of the Dead Ringers podcast) and Stephanie Crawford (horror journalist and co-host of The Screamcast) on this episode of Corpse Club! Listen as Heather, Emily, and Stephanie celebrate influential female horror filmmaking with an in-depth discussion of director/co-writer Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark, from its Western-style approach to vampires and its scintillating screenplay to its visceral violence, unconventional family, and powerful performances by a cast that includes Jenny Wright, Jenette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar, and Joshua John Miller. So, whether you keep odd hours or you don't mind the sun's rays (and they don't cause you to burst into flames), sit back, relax,...

The Doomed Mission is a substantial trope in sci-fi action-adventures like Annihilation, but it's one that director Alex Garland and Co. (and maybe Jeff Vandermeer, but I haven't read his book upon which the film is based) approach in a notably holistic manner. “Why did my husband go on a suicide mission?” asks Lena (Natalie Portman), a military biologist, of Ventress (Jennifer Jason-Leigh), the hardened psychologist. Ventress's response, an intuitive gloss of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, suggests that the instinct for self-destruction pops up in mundane ordinary habits: through over-drinking, over- working, or abandoning what and who you love. Then, the psychologist throws the question back at the cancer-cell biologist. Why does life produce the conditions of its own demise? Who said that self- destruction is a purely psychological phenomenon? What makes Annihilation exhilarating as sci-fi is that, like 2016's Arrival, it's not about scientific knowledge as a unified system,...

Still looking sharp 26 years since its premiere, James Cameron’s picture completely masters the mass audience thriller while pushing the effects envelope far beyond the industry’s horizon. Technically slick, conceptually brutal, Cameron’s style is what still prevails in action-based Sci-Fi. All this, and Ah-nold too.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital

Lionsgate

1991 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 137 min. / Street Date December 26, 2017 / 22.99

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, S. Epatha Merkerson, Earl Boen, Castulo Guerra, Danny Cooksey, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley.

Cinematography: Adam Greenberg

Film Editors: Conrad Buff, Dody Dorn, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris

Original Music: Brad Fiedel

Written by James Cameron, William Wisher

Produced and Directed by James Cameron

Back again and cleaned up for a new home video format Terminator 2: Judgment Day looks better than ever, showing off the superior effects talents of its demanding producer-director. James Cameron’s career...

Review by Matthew Turner

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Earl Boen, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley | Written by James Cameron, William Wisher Jr. | Directed by James Cameron

Twenty-six years after it blasted onto screens in the summer of 1991, James Cameron’s smash-hit Terminator sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day has been given an immaculate clean-up and 3D conversion treatment for this missed-it-by-a-year anniversary release. Supervised by Cameron himself, the newly tweaked 3D effects are reason enough to see the film again, but does it still hold up after all this time? The short answer is yes. Yes, it does.

The plot, in case you somehow needed reminding, picks up ten years after the events of 1984′s The Terminator, with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) locked up in an asylum, muttering about an imminent apocalypse, and future resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) still just a snarky ten...

Review by Matthew Turner

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Earl Boen, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley | Written by James Cameron, William Wisher Jr. | Directed by James Cameron

Twenty-six years after it blasted onto screens in the summer of 1991, James Cameron’s smash-hit Terminator sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day has been given an immaculate clean-up and 3D conversion treatment for this missed-it-by-a-year anniversary release. Supervised by Cameron himself, the newly tweaked 3D effects are reason enough to see the film on the big screen again, but does it still hold up after all this time? The short answer is yes. Yes, it does.

The plot, in case you somehow needed reminding, picks up ten years after the events of 1984′s The Terminator, with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) locked up in an asylum, muttering about an imminent apocalypse, and future resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) still...

Ellen Ripley, Vasquez, and bullet-blasted Xenomorph Warriors comprise Neca's Series 12 Aliens action figures, and new photos offer closer looks at the collectibles before they are released this September.

We have official details and photos of Neca's Series 12 Aliens action figures below, and to view the full photo gallery, stay frosty and visit Neca online.

From Neca: "Series 12 of our bestselling Aliens action figures is themed to the events that occur in Hadley’s Hope during Aliens and continues our 30th Anniversary celebration. It includes Lt. Ellen Ripley (Bomber Jacket), Private Jenette Vasquez (BDUs), and two different Battle-Damaged Aliens Warriors.

Ripley stands approximately 7″ tall, has over 25 points of articulation and features the likeness of Sigourney Weaver. She wears a bomber jacket over blue coverall and comes with pulse rifle accessory and attachable muzzle flash.

Vasquez stands approximately 6.5″ tall and features the likeness of Jenette Goldstein. Vasquez is seen in her alternate...

Companies all around the internet celebrated the second annual Alien Day by showcasing their collectibles based on the beloved franchise, and we've collected some of our favorites together in one ultimate round-up to share with Daily Dead readers.

Neca's 7" Scale Vasquez Action Figure: "Celebrate Alien Day 2017 with a special edition tribute to the classic Kenner Vasquez figure from the early ’90s! Private Jenette Vasquez comes with knife, sheath and pulse rifle accessories.

The 7” scale figure features the likeness of Jenette Goldstein, and has over 25 points of articulation. The blister card packaging is an homage to the classic as well — it’s the perfect companion piece to the 2016 Alien Day Exclusive Ripley action figure!

$ 24.99"

Hallmark's Alien Ellen Ripley itty bittys Stuffed Figure: "Bring back itty bittys®. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded. But once you see this cute version of Warrant Officer Ripley from the 1979 movie Alien™, it’s an order you’ll never argue.

With the Holiday Season here and shopping at its high point it becomes a very stressful time for all of us. Here at Lrm we have the opportunity to get to review a lot of great products that end up being great gifts during this time of year. If you are looking for a present for someone who is into film making and behind the scenes artwork Titan Books has a great selection to choose from. Check out the books below and pick up one or all of them from the links below.

Aliens: The Set Photography

A new hardback photography book documenting the making of Aliens, the 1986 smash hit movie directed by James Cameron. Aliens: The Set Photography reveals a unique new perspective on the making of James Cameron’s film as the focus shifts behind the cameras to capture the director, cast and crew as they...

It’s time to head back to Twin Peaks, salute some major names (Gus Van Sant, James Cameron, Hal Ashby, Guillermo del Toro, Orson Welles), icons (James Dean), and (former) power players (Mike Ovitz). Plus, Harry Potter, Seinfeld, and McDonald’s! Let’s start with a loving look back at 50 years of the starship Enterprise.

Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years (Titan Books)

There have been a number of interesting books released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, but there’s no question that 50 Artists 50 Years is the handsomest. As the title makes clear, the premise is simple: 50 respected artists, all with wildly unique styles, were tasked with creating a work of art highlighting some element of the Trek universe. There’s plenty of original series — Glen Brogan’s jaunty representation of the bridge of the Enterprise is my personal favorite — and lots of Spock. Plus, Leonard Nimoy himself...

James Cameron's superb spacemen vs. monsters siege battle epic is back in a reissue with an extra collector goodie or two, still looking good on Blu-ray for its 30th Anniversary. And that heroine Ripley is still the most combat-worthy space cadet in the galaxy. Aliens 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Fox Home Entertainment 1986 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 137, 154 min. / Street Date September 13, 2016 / 24.99 Starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Scott. Cinematography Adrian Biddle Film Editor Ray Lovejoy Original Music James Horner Written by James Cameron, story by Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill from characters by Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett Produced by Gale Ann Hurd Directed by James Cameron

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

I know I'm in a minority when I confess that I had little use...

Aliens: The Set Photography was released earlier this month in unison to the 30th anniversary of the release of the movie. It gives you an in-depth behind the scenes look at what it took from the cast and crew to put this movie together. The quality and detail of the images are unbelievable and can't be compared to any other publisher of set photography books. This book is broken down into how production went for the major acts of the movie. Along with the photography from the set each image is accompanied with either an detailed description or a quote from one of the actors from the movie. A majority of the photos included in this book have never been seen before, so even if you have watched the movie hundreds of times I guarantee that there will be images you haven't seen.

With so many movies today relying...

James Cameron’s seminal sci-fi film Aliens recently enjoyed its 30th anniversary, and Titan Books continues the celebration with a new hardcover photo book. Containing never-before-seen photos, new anecdotes from actresses Carrie Henn and Jenette Goldstein, and much more, Aliens: The Set Photography will be released on August 9th, and we’ve been provided with three hardcover copies to give away to Daily Dead readers.

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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) hardcover copy of Aliens: The Set Photography.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Aliens: The Set Photography Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on August 9th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. Only one...

July 18, 2016 marks the 30th Anniversary of James Cameron Aliens, and we caught up with actress turned business owner Jenette Goldstein last year who most will remember as "Vasquez" the tough chola soldier at war with aliens. CineMovie is talking to her about her role in the classic action film, and how she transformed herself into a "chola" from East Los Angeles.

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One of the toughest characters from the Alien franchise, Colonial Marine Private First Class Jenette Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein) from 1986’s Aliens is being honored in a new figure from Neca that was originally revealed on Alien Day and has now been teased in additional photos.

Actress Jenette Goldstein, who portrayed Smartgun operator Private Vasquez in Aliens, fittingly unveiled new photos of Neca’s figure on Twitter. Fans can take a look at these photos below, as well as earlier images revealed by Neca to celebrate the first ever Alien Day earlier this week.

This summer marks the 30th anniversary of James Cameron’s Aliens, and Neca plans to celebrate by releasing new collectibles, including the Private Vasquez figure as well as a figure of Newt (Carrie Henn), the young survivor found by Ellen Ripley and the Colonial Marines on the moon Lv-426.

This Private Vasquez collectible is scheduled for an August release,...

Today is Alien Day, on which sci-fi and horror fans pay homage to the Xenomorphs from the “Alien” film series who can easily kill us in a dozen different gruesome ways. To celebrate, fans of the series can catch screenings of the first two movies, by Ridley Scott and James Cameron, at theaters across the country. Ellen Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver, will attend a screening of “Alien” in New York. In Los Angeles, Jenette Goldstein and Carrie Henn, who played Private Vasquez and Newt, will attend a screening of the sequel, “Aliens.” But in case you’re under lockdown in a colony.

On April 26th, 20th Century Fox and Alamo Drafthouse will screen Alien and Aliens in theaters across the country (buy tickets here), and in advance of that date -- recently dubbed "Alien Day" by the powers-that-be -- I hopped on the phone with Aliens star Jenette Goldstein, who played hardened marine Private Jenette Vasquez in James Cameron's explosive 1986 sequel. Thanks to Cameron's script and direction, the character challenged every long-held notion of what a woman could be in an action film; Vasquez was brawny, deep-voiced and completely unapologetic about her unconventional manner and appearance. In that vein, Goldstein -- who in conversation is distinctly unlike the tough-talking soldier she played -- offered one particularly apropos anecdote from the film's extensive production period.  "I had psoriasis, and I had this big outbreak on my knee that looked like I had fallen off a motorcycle," she told me. "Like, red on my legs.

Any proper fan of the Alien franchise knows that 426 is a special number: Lv-426 is the name of the moon where Ripley and company first encounter the xenomorphs. In their honor, 20th Century Fox has proclaimed April 26 to be Alien Day. This means there will be a bunch of Alien-themed events (you can find a nice round-up here), including Reebok making special edition "Alien Stomper" shoes modeled after Ripley's footwear in Aliens and Alamo Drafthouse holding screenings of Aliens (which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year) across the country. The Los Angeles screening will have Jenette Goldstein (Pvt. Vasquez) and Carrie Henn (Newt) in attendance, while the New York screening will have Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver. If you've ever wanted to watch Ripley with Ripley, this is for you.  (Also, if you're a big Ripley fan, you should be ashamed of yourself for letting her just barely lose out...

To celebrate 20th Century Fox’s newly announced Alien Day on April 26th, Alamo Drafthouse will host nationwide screenings of the first two Alien films on the big day, including a special New York City screening of Aliens with Sigourney Weaver, aka Ellen Ripley, in attendance.

Aliens fans on the West Coast will also be treated to two very special guests at the Aliens screening in Los Angeles, where Jenette Goldstein and Carrie Henn will be on hand to help celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the seminal sequel.

The Music Box Theatre in Chicago will also play host to a double feature of Alien and Aliens, while the Alien Day screenings across the country will also feature a new Mondo Alien shirt (pictured below) designed specifically for the occasion. For full details, we have the official press release below, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details on the upcoming Xenomorph holiday.

Grab your calendars Monster Kids, and clear your schedules on 4/26 (a nod to Lv-426) for a 24-hour homage to Alien and Aliens. Companies like Neca, DC Comics, Reebok, and more will be releasing new merchandise in honor of the iconic franchise. Fans can also join in on social using #AlienDay426, and tune in of Twitter for the ultimate Alien trivia event. Check out the full list of events and releases below.

Los Angeles, CA (March 29, 2016) – Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products announced today an out-of-this-world global celebration of the Alien franchise culminating with a special 24 hour, fan-focused social media event on April 26th – a nod to Lv-426, the planet from the iconic Alien films. Alien Day (#AlienDay426) to encompass a wide range of executions including nationwide screenings, never-before-seen consumer product activations and the kickoff of the Alien: Ultimate Trivia Challenge, allowing fans to test their Alien knowledge – with the chance...

With a new Alien movie coming out next year, there’s already a lot to be excited about, but the folks at Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have now given fans an official time to celebrate their favorite franchise by announcing Alien Day, which will take place on April 26th (in honor of Lv-426) and feature the release of new collectibles (including replicas of Ripley’s Reebok Alien Stomper shoes), screenings of the first two Alien films, online trivia with prizes, and much more.

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (March 29, 2016) – Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products announced today an out-of-this-world global celebration of the Alien franchise culminating with a special 24 hour, fan-focused social media event on April 26th – a nod to Lv-426, the planet from the iconic Alien films. Alien Day (#AlienDay426) to encompass a wide range of executions including nationwide screenings, never-before-seen consumer product activations and the kickoff of the Alien: Ultimate Trivia Challenge,...

Sometimes it’s psychological. Sometimes it’s visceral. It can be a masked killer’s twisted pastime. A labyrinth our poor heroes must find their way out of. Perhaps a nasty round of torture by the Big Bad. Whatever it is, the sick feeling of impending doom overcomes us as we realize the characters might not make it out alive. Sometimes they can think their way through. Sometimes they can fight. But when the exits are closed and the madman decides to get creative, all bets are off.

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Alucarda, La Hija De Las Tinieblas / Innocents From Hell (1977) – A Dracula takes revenge

Director Juan López Moctezuma came along during the new wave of 70′s Mexican genre pics that expressed radical and subversive views. An important intellectual figure in Mexico in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, Moctezuma produced Jodorowsky’s El Topo and Fando Y Lis. Of his three horror films (which also includes Mansion of Madness,...

From anime to pitch-black thrillers, here's our pick of the underappreciated movies of 1987...

Sometimes, the challenge with these lists isn't just what to put in, but what to leave out. We loved Princess Bride, but with a decent showing at the box office and a huge cult following, isn't it a bit too popular to be described as underappreciated? Likewise Joe Dante's Innerspace, a fabulously geeky, comic reworking of the 60s sci-fi flick, Fantastic Voyage.

What we've gone for instead is a mix of genre fare, dramas and animated films that may have garnered a cult following since, but didn't do well either critically or financially at the time of release. Some of the movies on our list just about made their money back, but none made anything close to the sort of returns enjoyed by the likes of 1987's biggest films - Three Men And A Baby, Fatal Attraction...

Happy Black Friday everyone! With the holiday shopping season kicking off today, we thought we’d get a jump start on our Annual Holiday Gift Guide as well, so that we can provide you guys with some great gift options and help you save a few bucks in the process.

Once again, Daily Dead is going to be posting some of our favorite gift ideas for all the horror, sci-fi and comics lovers out there over the next few weeks and just because we want to do something fun for our readers, at the end of each day’s recap, we’ll be posting a holiday horror-related trivia question and giving away great prize pack featuring items from our fantastic sponsors, including Scream Factory, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Horror Decor.

Vendor Spotlight: HorrorDecor.net

For any horror fan out there who likes to incorporate their love of zombies, slasher movies...

With Halloween fast approaching, EW is picking the five best films in a variety of different horror movie categories. Each day, we’ll post our top picks from one specific group—say, ghost movies or slasher flicks—and give you the chance to vote on which is your favorite. On Oct. 31, EW will reveal your top choices. Today, we’re talking about vampire movies. The Twilight franchise may now be the first films that come to mind when the subject turns to vampire flicks—for better (Eclipse) or worse (anything before Eclipse). But even if you unapologetically enjoy those movies,...

A little over seven years after the release of Ridley Scott’s Alien arrived in theaters, James Cameron brought out the big guns (literally) with his action-oriented sequel Aliens, which dominated over the summer of 1986 as it held the number one spot on the box office charts for four weeks straight.

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Carrie Henn, Jenette Goldstein, Mark Rolston, and William Hope, Aliens follows Ellen Ripley, the sole (human) survivor of the events of Scott’s original film, and a rag-tag crew of Colonial Marines back to the planet Lv-426 where Ripley and her crew first encountered the deadly alien species after a terraforming colony located there mysteriously goes dark.

The complete antithesis of Scott’s Alien, Cameron’s sequel was a raucous action/sci-fi mash-up that took everything that made the original movie so great and then kicked it up...

The stars of Aliens have reunited 28 years after the film first premiered.

A sequel to Sir Ridley Scott's wildly popular Alien, the James Cameron-directed sci-fi movie smashed records when it debuted in 1986.

Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Jenette Goldstein, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and Carrie Henn were all on hand to celebrate the film at a recent convention in Calgary.

The stars took to the stage at the Comic and Entertainment Expo, where they posed for pictures and discussed the legacy of the movie.

Biehn reportedly said: "You just kind of fall into the same personalities, the same friendships, the same thing we had 25 years ago.

"I was saying to myself, 'It's like time hasn't changed. Everybody looks good, everybody is taking care of themselves.' And then I looked over and saw Newt, the little girl, who is also 25 years older. It kind of brought me back to,...

Texas Frightmare Weekend is proud to reveal its 2014 schedule that jam packed with things to do, people to see, and screams to be had! Read on for all of the latest, and if you're gonna be in attendance... consider us officially jealous!

From the Press Release

Just when fans didn't think Texas Frightmare Weekend could get any more epic... it does - in a huge way! America's largest horror convention is proud to announce several new free film screenings, guests, and events to take place at Dallas, Texas' Dfw Hyatt Regency this May 2, 3, and 4 - cementing Tfw's reputation as the biggest and best gathering of horror fandom in the USA!

In addition to our numerous previously-announced free screenings, Tfw is also proud to host the World Premiere of Billy Pon's Circus of the Dead and the North American Premiere of the Japanese splatter anthology Zombie TV - from Maelie Makuno,...

We already told you that George A. Romero will be appearing at Texas Frightmare Weekend, but we have one more exciting piece of new for fans of Dawn of the Dead. The Alamo Drafthouse is teaming up with Texas Frightmare Weekend for a rare screening of the 1978 zombie classic, with George A. Romero, Tom Savini, David Emge, and Scott Reiniger in attendance.

“Texas Frightmare Weekend is teaming up with The Alamo Drafthouse Dallas to screen five classic Frightmare-themed films during the week leading up to this year’s jam-packed 2014 weekend… culminating with a star-studded screening of George Romero’s zombie opus Dawn Of The Dead the night before Frightmare begins!

In 1968, George A. Romero created what would go on to be the modern zombie genre as we know it with Night of the Living Dead. Ten years later, he redefined it with what is widely considered as the zenith of...

Texas Frightmare Weekend is proud to reveal its 2014 poster, created in cooperation with Mondo, America’s finest purveyors of cinematic artwork. Tfw’s 2014 poster celebrates two of this year’s festival’s biggest draws...

...the Hellraiser series and George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, masterfully combined by iconic horror artist Gary Pullin. A very limited number of only 100 posters will be printed for this year’s convention, making them the show’s hottest collectors item. Available only at the show itself, quantities will be limited to two per customer.

From the Press Release

Texas Frightmare Weekend is back for blood May 2nd through the 4th, offering up more celebrity guests, more vendors, and the continuation of its wildly popular free film screenings to all Tfw passholders! Continuing last year’s partnership, Texas Frightmare Weekend is monstrously proud to re-team with IFC Midnight and present a gruesome twosome of...

With a jam-packed lineup of stars, this year's Texas Frightmare Weekend was already looking to be a must-attend event, and the convention has just gotten a big time upgrade in the form of a partnership with IFC Midnight.

Read on for all the details, which are sure to have you planning a trip to rattlesnake country!

From the Press Release

Texas Frightmare Weekend is back for blood May 2nd through the 4th, offering up more celebrity guests, more vendors, and the continuation of its wildly popular free film screenings to all Tfw passholders! Continuing last year’s partnership, Texas Frightmare Weekend is monstrously proud to re-team with IFC Midnight and present a gruesome twosome of new horror films from two specialists in the genre!

Texas Frightmare Weekend welcomes a stellar duo of hotly anticipated chillers with Ben Ketai’s subterranean terror opus Beneath and Álex de la Iglesia’s epic...

[Press Release] The Calgary Expo, in conjunction with Coolwaters Productions LLC, is proud to announce that Sigourney Weaver will be joining fellow Aliens cast-mates for Aliens EXPOsed – a celebration of the iconic 1986 film Aliens. Other cast members appearing at the event include Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Jenette Goldstein, and Mark Roltson. The event carries on Calgary Expo’s tradition of creating unique special events in addition to the convention. Aliens EXPOsed follows in the footsteps of other successful presentations like the complete cast of Star Trek: Tng in 2012, and “Weird Al” Yankovic in 2013. “The Aliens franchise changed the face of Science Fiction and Horror”, states Event Director Kandrix Foong, “It’s an incredible honor to...

Some possible story details have leaked from the upcoming Terminator: Genesis movie currently in development at Paramount Pictures. The movie is being directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World), and it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke as John Connor, and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese. The information that has come to light is from Movie Hole, who says it comes from a very reputable source that they believe is "one-hundred percent on-the-money."

So, if you don't want anything spoiled for you I suggest you don't read ahead. I do have to say though, this sounds like a really cool concept that almost plays out like Back to the Future Part 2 and J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. The movie is described as a fresh reboot of the series, and now let's get into the meat of it...

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So apparently Schwarzenegger’s character...

So here we are in Christmas week, most of the usual streaming companies have done well for you so that you won’t be too bored post turkey when you have to tolerate the family. Apart from Now TV though, there is still a serious lack of Christmas themed films out there which is a disappointment unless you really like the Santa Clause movies because they are floating around Netflix somewhere.

Good news for 2014 though is that House of Cards season two debuts on Netflix in February and also the Breaking Bad/Bob Odenkirk spin-off “Better Call Saul” is going to make its way to Netflix at some point during the year as well. Netflix has agreed a deal where they will stream the show very soon after season one ends on AMC stateside but in Europe they will be the exclusive home of the show. This probably means that...

February's Women in Horror Month is a great opportunity to unite female horror enthusiasts, journalists, actors, directors, screenwriters, producers, and the like. But that doesn’t mean that the efforts of the women who fight for their place in the industry shouldn’t also be recognized throughout the year. There are many talented female directors, screenwriters, producers, and actors working in the production of genre films on a daily basis, but they don’t always receive the same level of recognition as their male counterparts. We hope for a time when Women in Horror Month will no longer be necessary, but we have a long way to go before that becomes a reality. So, to show our appreciation for the hardworking women who toil away in the horror genre, we'd like to spotlight five of our favorite female-helmed horror films. Chained Jennifer Chambers Lynch (Boxing Helena) turned out a restrained...

Review Ryan Lambie Feb 12, 2013

A sci-fi cinema classic becomes a videogame in Gearbox Software's adaptation. Ryan finds out how Aliens: Colonial Marines measures up...

Ever since Hicks, Ripley and a supporting cast of Colonial Marines first crept around the moody environs of Hadley's Hope in 1986, videogames have seemingly been in thrall to Aliens' future world. From the various official Alien videogame adaptations that appeared through the 80s and 90s, to the Gears Of War and Dead Space franchises of the present, James Cameron's film has left a profound impression on game design.

In development for the best part of six years, Gearbox Software's Aliens: Colonial Marines aims to provide the ultimate fan wish fulfilment: to put the player in the combat shoes of a pulse-rifle toting, xeno-blasting grunt. What's more, Colonial Marines promises to be something more than a quick-buck cash-in; its developers have long talked...

With Valentine's day just around the corner, we believe nothing says “I Love You” more than a little old-school bloodletting, and the folks at Fright-Rags strongly agree. To celebrate this day of romance, they've unveiled a limited edition design commemorating Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 classic Near Dark. The vampires in this film don't sparkle, thank goodness... but they do slash throats, crash cars, and kick much ass. They also fall in love, as depicted in the film's central romance between Mae (Jenny Wright) and her recent undead convert Caleb (Adrian Pasdar). Those lovers don't get a closeup on this design, but main vamp baddie Jesse (Lance Henriksen) and his partner Diamondback (Jenette Goldstein) are front-and-center, along with their sort-of child Homer (Joshua John Miller) and crazed sidekick Severen (Bill Paxton). The limited edition design will be available at this link only from 10:00pm Est Thursday, February 14th through 10:00am Est Monday,...

We regularly cover Fright Rags’ limited edition offerings and they’ve put another a new Near Dark design together for Valentine’s Day. Near Dark was released in 1987 and was one of director Kathryn Bigelow‘s first films. For those that haven’t seen it, the movie followed a traveling group of vampires, led by Lance Henricksen, and also starred Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Jenny Wright, and Adrian Pasdar.

“With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, we thought we’d bring you a special “love” themed limited edition. More specifically, a vampire-love themed design. Not those ones — no, we’re going back to when bloodsuckers were cool (and not sparkly). So all you lovers get ready for the Near Dark Limited Edition!”

“Five Days Only : This t-shirt will only be available from 10:00pm Thursday, February, 14 through 10:00am Monday, February 18. As soon as the clock strikes 10:00am on...