Alien rip-offs

[I luv dolma]

C'mon let's form a list of all the movies that have copied the formula of Alien and Aliens and even their sequels.

Carnosaur 2
Godzilla vs. Destroyah
Deep Rising

[Evil Matt]

Steel Magnolias

[-=NiGHTS=-]

'Riding in Cars With Boys'.

[-=NiGHTS=-]

God you're juvenile.  Can't you be banned or something?

You're just decending further and further into incoherence.

[I luv dolma]

These boards aren't monitered I guess.


"Jurassic Park" & "Minority Report"

[Andrew]

I luv dolma wrote:

> These boards aren't monitered I guess.

Actually, there are several posters with monitor rights and then there is me.  The post that Nights is talking about disappeared about 2 minutes after it was posted.

[trekgeezer]

How about we admit that even Alien is rip off .  It all started with The Thing from Another World.  Small group of isolated people with no way to communicate with the outside world and an alien/freak/mutant running around  killing/eating/maiming/impregnating/infesting them one at a time.

 It's a formula that someone manages to put a unique spin on once in a while.

[Rob]

Creature - not too bad, Kinski was cool
Deepstar Six - alien with scuba gear.
I'll post when I can think of a few more

[Eirik]

That formula was around a long time before Thing From Another World, or moving pictures for that matter.  Isolation is one of the foremost elements of horror.  You have to pretty much go to Japanese giant monster movies to see the rule broken.

[Andrew]

The basis for "Alien" had definitely been done before.  I think that the real point is how Ridley Scott brought all the elements together, in a science fiction film, and showed that it could be a very scary and dynamic story.   It was also a very dark movie, almost Gothic at times.  The creature design helps with the whole Gothic, black, evil, unnatural feel - blame Giger.

[FearlessFreep]

The basis for "Alien" had definitely been done before. I think that the real point is how Ridley Scott brought all the elements together, in a science fiction film, and showed that it could be a very scary and dynamic story.

This is how I usually react to accusations of 'rip-off'

There are very few new stories, the difference between the 'cheap riip off' and 'good borrower' is simply one of execution

[Eirik]

Something else new in Alien - and something that made the movie a whole lot creepier and scarier for me - was that instead of devouring its victims, or biting their neck, or bopping them on the shoulders causing them to fall in a heap, these monsters used humans as breeding vessels.  (*shudders*)

[kriegerg69]

Andrew wrote:

> The basis for "Alien" had definitely been done before.

..specifically, the 50's movie IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE is generally credited with being THE specific movie from which ALIEN was inspired.

[trekgeezer]

That's the only point I was making.  Not much is new under the sun , but  Alien scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it.

[jmc]

There was an Italian ripoff [I don't think there's anything wrong in calling it that--Italian filmmakers in the 80s were pretty blatant about it] called ALIEN CONTAMINATION that I want to check out one of these days.