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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.

One possibility I've seen before (Tomorrow Never Dies I think) is that not all the score was completed when the album master needed to be handed in for manufacturing etc.

I love Spider-Man 2 the film so, so much, but the use of score really distracts me from it. Some of the temp tracking I can get over, but why, why, why is the love theme playing over Aunt May's hero speech? Awful.

I'm not convinced the naming means anything specific, but I agree that especially given they did the first one, it's a very good indication that the secone one's coming. I gave the sessions a very quick skim on YouTube and actually there's a lot more here than I remember, particularly in the alternates. The movie's 2 hours (excluding credits) and the album has only got 44 minutes (!!) of score... either fees got in the way or Elfman was in a really conceptual mindset when he made it. It means that catering for alternate versions (and hopefully other composers' work) there's absolutely tons of missing music. I am so up for an expansion.

Bring on the "cosplay" then, I say! By the way, as the big signs at Fan Expo say: "COSPLAY IS NOT CONSENT!"

Didn't it have an 'R' rating? How did your parents slip you in?? And kudos to them for doing so! That's my kind of parenting! Ridley Scott: Find me the skimpiest pair of knickers... Two sizes too small, and held together by a band so thin that if it got just slightly frayed it would come undone. Costume department: On it!

He said he has no advantage over Mr. Williams, who is the superior composer.

The fact that it says "Album Version" is a pretty big reveal. It tells me that there is at least something other than the album edit of that cue exists. I think this was a (not very) subtle easter egg to confirm that they are at least working on Spider-Man 2. Of course, I'm just stating the obvious that others have likely said in different ways already, but I'm anticipating good things, so I don't care. At any rate, if this and Spider-Man 3 are given the LLLR treatment, we are in for an amazing time.

FWIW it's called 'Album Version' on a handful of streaming places such as https://www.deezer.com/en/album/75359

While there are plenty of solid, scary movies that I've seen at various points in my life (THE EXORCIST was pretty heavy too, on VHS in the early 90s), only two have been absolute nerve-wreckers - ALIEN, as mentioned, and the US version of THE GRUDGE (seen with a hangover and nerves on the outside).

Yes, as I say in the article, the folksier, "purer" bits are the best. If you like EDM and electronic music, give it a go. It's a great DJ set, the best conceptual score album from a Reznor/Ross production, thanks to Boys Noize.

What did he say? Is there a TL;DW version somewhere?

Oh nevermind. It does say that, here on my computer. Last night viewing the Instagram story on my phone, it didn't say that (in two different browsers)