After the misfire of Aliens the series gets back on track

The folly of ALIENS fans is that they seem to not be able to digest horror in a horror franchise. This is horror - not Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

They prefer their horror films to be mindless shoot 'em ups with cool weaponry being wielded by tough people with big muscles greasing each other up. ALIENS could have starred Sylvester Stallone.

They also cannot seem to be able to accept that in horror films - horrible things happen (Gasp!)

Thank goodness David Fincher's bleak masterpiece reinstated the franchise to its horror roots.

We should rejoice the fact that Newt and Hicks were slaughtered. This is horror - not Mary Poppins. We should celebrate Ripley's demise. This is horror - not Pollyanna.

I suppose ALIENS fans would have preferred Ripley to lose her glass slipper in Alien 3 only to have Hicks find it and return it to her at the end of the film? Perhaps they could both then get married in the prison colony with Newt as the bridesmaid? A host of bald men looking on with big smiles on their faces? Brian Glover catches the bouquet?


The mindless action fest ALIENS with its happy Disney ending is the black sheep of the original trilogy.