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I also recommend the novelization by Alan Dean Foster.

To those who say "You can't take it with you," I say: "Watch me!" I'm going to dig a burial chamber for me and my collection—pharaoh-style!

Oh I read most books in hard copy and don’t have a kindle but use the app on my iPad sometimes for a few books and a lot of back copies of FSM that I’d downloaded in pdf from their website (always a reminder of how much better it used to be when people like Jeff were doing the reviews…). However I couldn’t wait to read about Jerry and his music plus it was just before going on holiday so ideal time to enjoy it on my travels while listening to the scores (at least those I happen to have on my phone).

Oh yeah that NECA figure is superb. My Aunt picked my Kenner Alien up for me at a garage sale back in the mid 80s. It’s in superb condition, although I had to restring the arms as the rubber straps broke over the years. There’s always such cool Alien stuff being produced. And believe me, I know that pain of regret for selling things off. Although the older I get, the more it just becomes stuff I will have to sell before I go into elder care, or preferably some island off the coast of Spain or something

Seeing this just pours salt into the wound... In the early days of eBay, I finally got my hands on one of these—in the box, and with the mini poster insert too. Then, years later, I thought I'd outgrown this stuff and put it back on eBay. Fool that I was! And now...regret. But I got the NECA 19" 40th Anniversary "Big Chap," which I think is the best-looking figure to date. I squint my eyes a little, and it looks like it came straight out of the movie. But I still love the Kenner, with the metallic grillz!

Your powers of observation are EGGstraordinary! That’s Egghead (Vincent Price) On topic: I wonder if there’s a facehugger in there. And speaking of eggs, I have ALIEN chocolate egg molds and made this for Easter.

Let me try to guess all the franchises that appear on this photo of your collection: Alien obviously; Star Wars (most of it); Adam West Batman; There's the feet above I couldn't identify to whom they belong...

Watching it just now, I was surprised how much Alien owns to ASO that I'd never noticed before. No wonder the score was butchered and replaced with existing music.

"The first thing I am going to do when I get back is get some decent food." [...] "Well you pound down the stuff like there's no tomorrow." "It's got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill it." "No blood. No Dallas. Nothing." "Come on, cat."

Recently rewatched 2001, this is definitely my favourite shot/moment:

…and at least a dozen more that didn't come up in my Google search.

Oh, well, here in Canada, it was restricted to 18+. Except in the province of Quebec, where it was 13+. French-Canadians are more relaxed about these things. lol Had this at one time. Was never a big fan of Walt Simonson's style, but he did an admirable job here. "BACK! SPAWN of SATAN!"

The village. The film certainly provides lots of food for thought and obviously Rotten Tomatoes proves how utterly useless it is yet again. The casting is great as well, with special mentions for BDH and William Hurt. The whole vision of the elders is flawed, though: we’ll run away from violence in society by pretending we’re a century earlier and threaten inhabitants with violence so that they don’t leave the village, although I guess that’s part of their trauma. Okay, well, now the elephant in the room. The score. I had already heard the Gravel Road in concert, conducted by none other than the man himself, but knowing what the Gravel Road actually is, totally changes things, of course. No movie deserves such beautiful music. The desperation, the yearning… I could continue to try and find words, but nothing I write will ever do justice to it. Somebody expand it NOW so I can buy it. And thanks to the audio-describer who went out of his way not to clearly state that Ivy was blind. God, I hate it when they do that. It wouldn’t have killed me.

I collect toys. Here are some of my ALIEN figures. Happy ALIEN Day.

When I was 12 I saw the poster for The Exorcism of Emily Rose and on that same night (I was traveling to the beach with my family) I had nightmares about it. It's a pretty effective poster, actually. Eerie and atmospheric without being overtly "in your face", and this combined with the word "exorcism" on the title makes a subtly but effectively scary poster. I wish more horror movies these days have posters are good as this (too bad the movie itself is meh).

Absolutely. It's one of my favorite ripoffs. Just an absolute delight watching Caroline Munro pretend to be Barbarella. It also has some of the prettiest, most colorful star fields, and a fun score by John Barry.

It's not only used in the seduction scene though, it's used for Feyd in numerous scenes that aren't about the Bene Gesserit at all (at least no more than any scene about Paul is about them, since they both factor in their plans). So I think it's pretty safe to consider it Feyd's theme at this point.

Yep, that's a fair possibility. Although given they had a songtrack as well, it would surprise me a bit if they wanted to have the score album out at the same time - the regular joes just want all the 'normal' stuff.

Please, come join us in the Cult Exploitation Trash B-Movie Thread and share more! Plenty of Shatner there too! I guess you could get in under 18 as long as you had an adult. I was the youngest of 4, so my parents sort of let the wolves raise me by the time I came along. My brother had the ALIEN graphic novel by Walter Simonson, which I can strongly recommend. I think staring at these pages messed me up more than the film itself. You take that back!!!

The Mummy is one of the first DVDs I ever bought, and it was in a shop somewhere that had a load very cheap so I bought it blind. Guess I found the cover more exciting than scary! Although I now have two copies because I had to own the region 1 version with the isolated score. As far as Alien goes, I have Prometheus, Covenant and Resurrection on Blu-ray - the latter about 95% due to the iso score.

I just saw and was going to edit my post!

Yes, I've already followed up on that post of mine, in subsequent posts.

The track used on Insta says "Album Version", but that seems to just be their naming convention on some of the streaming platforms.

I can relate to that, Edmilson. The poster for FRIGHT NIGHT did the same for me (far more so than the lacklustre film itself), although I was as old as 10 when I first discovered the film:

I was a pretty scared child (who turned up to be a very anxiety-ridden adult) so I didn't see many horror movies especially in early childhood. I remember when I was 6 and my dad rented The Matrix on VHS. I was absolutely HORRIFIED during the interrogation scene, where Neo loses his mouth and some creepy insect is inserted on him via his belly button. Then, during the scene where he awakens in the real world totally nude and bald in that horrifying landscape I was so scared that I ended up vomiting. Funny thing is, not many years later I started to really like the martial arts and action scenes. My dad was obssessed with that movie and so he bought the DVD and kept replaying the gun fights and martial arts, so eventually I thought those were awesome. Now, The Matrix is one of my favorite movies ever, and I love the whole trilogy. But it remains a very scary movie franchise given current technological inovations. Another embarrassing childhood memory: 6-year-old me was afraid of the fucking poster for The Mummy... lol. I thought that huge scary face made of sand above a pyramid was really creepy.