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Unknown Origin (1995): That Alien Thing!

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Dave quizzes scripter Alex Simon about his nifty first movie for Roger Corman. Yes, there’s a shapeshifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims a la The Thing (1982). Yes, the self-destruct password is ‘Nostromo’, named after the interstellar mining ship in Alien (1979). And yes, there’s a lot of recycled underwater footage from Lords of the Deep (1989), itself a not-so-subtle cash-in on The Abyss (1989) and Leviathan (1989). Origin…
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Unknown Origin (1995): That Alien Thing!

Dave quizzes scripter Alex Simon about his nifty first movie for Roger Corman. Yes, there’s a shapeshifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims a la The Thing (1982). Yes, the self-destruct password is ‘Nostromo’, named after the interstellar mining ship in Alien (1979). And yes, there’s a lot of recycled underwater footage from Lords of the Deep (1989), itself a not-so-subtle cash-in on The Abyss (1989) and Leviathan (1989). Origin…

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