Documentary MemoryAlienDoc bears a deep and abiding fondness for the mind behind its conception
is impossible. Like the xenomorph itself, the series has planted its seed in pop culture’s chest and produced generations of new progeny, whether sequels or riffs or rip-offs. In Alexandre O. Phillipe’s new movie,as a character, as a product of O’Bannon’s imagination and as a cultural landmark is laid bare, broken down on a molecular level, all without demystifying its indelible particulars and sucking all of the air out of the room.
to weird, oozing life—Terry Rawlings, Roger Christian, Ivor Powell, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Skerritt—and people with something to say about what the film means to them—Clarke Wolfe, Axelle Carolyn, Ben Manciewicz, Adam Egypt Mortimer—is that horror, great horror,horror, finds its roots in unexpected corners of the mind. The genre functions best when unconsciously reflecting the fears of its creators, and most of all the fears of the era in which it’s made.
It’s also the sci-fi horror movie the decade didn’t see coming, and which the next decade discarded in favor of traditionally optimistic outcomes. O’Bannon saw science fiction as a genre with a sunny outlook, gazing ahead toward brighter futures for all mankind; his response to that, according to Phillipe and his subjects, was, a film verging on nihilistic, where people’s livelihood is dictated by the whims and needs of a capitalist society.
On the surface, this is a film about a spaceship, the spaceship’s crew and the biologically indescribable monster lurking through air ducts, picking them off one by one. Beneath, it’s about corporate American greed, and beneathtakes the long way around the barn to get from its creator’s fundamental psychic “stuff” to the genre classic it is today;, dissects the journey from concept to conception in microscopic detail, and with abiding fondness for O’Bannon’s work.
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