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The Fear

C.L. Taylor

8.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Lou Smith is used to being headline news as, aged seventeen, she ran away with her 37-year-old...

Adult Contemporary Thriller

Owl Sense

Miriam Darlington

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'Her softness took my breath away. Deadly beauty. She turned her face towards me. The owl's massive...

Liopleurodon: The Master of the Deep

M. B. Zucker

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Liopleurodon ferox was the deadliest sea predator of all time, the king of the Jurassic ocean. This...

Historical Fantasy

Infernal Devices (Mortal Engines #3)

Philip Reeve

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The third thrilling book in the stunning Predator Cities series! The mighty engines of Anchorage...

Of Wilderness and Wolves

Paul Lester Errington and Matthew Wynn Sivils

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"I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land." With these words, Paul L. Errington begins...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Aliens (1986) in Movies

Feb 20, 2018

Aliens (1986)

1986 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

9.0

(90 Ratings)

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James Cameron's muscular sequel doesn't muck about admiring the art direction or trying to be atmospheric, but reinvents the original movie as a gut-busting action thriller. Slimy corporate types have colonised the planet on which a lethal alien predator was discovered in the first film; now contact has been lost and sole survivor Ripley is sent in with the troops to investigate. The ultimate fate of the cat remains a mystery.

After a long, tense build-up, once the action kicks off the film feels relentless, and in the Queen Alien it comes up with a monster just as iconic as the original creature. Great ensemble cast led by Weaver, terrific set pieces, interesting subtext about the maternal instinct. Every other Alien film since has been judged by the standards established here.