The dimly-lit locations in Alien Vs Predator were a common cause for complaint back in 2004. Most of the film takes place in complete darkness Weirdly, none of the aliens emerge with bits of loo paper stuck to them or anything.
Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem plunges into the effluent with relish, as the Pred-Alien and its scuttling army of facehuggers sets up a temporary dwelling in a drainage system.Ĭheerfully sowing their evil seeds inside a group of homeless people, the facehuggers and their Pred-Alien leader build up their ranks of soldiers, ready to take over the sleepy town and its fleshy, unwary inhabitants. In a combined seven entries, the Alien, Predator and AVP movies all managed to steer clear of them. Like entropy, there’s a law that governs all B-movies: terrible things always happen in sewers. Having received a distress signal from the crashed ship on Earth, he packs up all his high-tech stuff, clambers in his ultra-fast Predator vessel, and heads off to investigate. Here he is:Īlan’s a kind of cleaner, evidence remover and alien detective, like a taller version of Harvey Keitel’s character in Pulp Fiction, or Jean Reno in La Femme Nikita and Leon. We’re introduced to another Predator, who doesn’t have a proper name in the film, so we’ll call him Alan. But because the plot’s all unfolding so quickly, it barely even registers. This should, in theory, be a monumental moment for the series, since it’s our first glimpse of the alien hunters’ world on the big screen. While the Pred-Alien and its retinue of facehuggers moves out into the Colorado countryside, the action shifts back to the Predator home planet. Remarkably, this isn’t even the worst bad-taste moment in the movie. As if this wasn’t traumatic enough, both father and son are subdued and impregnated by facehuggers. But this is a 2000s B-movie, so the child watches as his father’s arm is dowsed with acid and falls to the ground with a plop. If this were a 1950s B-movie, none of the townsfolk would believe him. Now, most films would probably have the kid escape this encounter, and maybe run back to his hometown and tell everyone about the aliens in the woods. An army of facehuggers escapes from the craft’s shattered hull, and attacks the father and son from among the undergrowth. Don’t the Predators, with all their incredible technology, have some sort of airport scanner which can locate unborn alien foetuses as each Predator boards the ship? If the Predator ship was leaving Earth, why did it circle back on itself?Ī huntsman father and his wide-eyed son are about to gun down an equally wide-eyed deer when they spot the crashed Predator vessel. Now, you could pick all sorts of holes even at this early stage. The alien swiftly grows up, murders the remaining occupants, leaving the craft to tumble back to terra firma and crash into the town of Gunnison, Colorado. Aboard a spaceship leaving Earth, a chestburster emerges from the body of the Predator from the last film. Everything happens on fast-forwardĪliens Vs Predator: Requiem picks up immediately after the previous film, which might confuse people who either didn’t see 2004’s AVP, or were extremely drunk when they did see it three years before (which we weren’t – honest). But while Requiem is widely regarded as a low point in the series, it’s not hard to find a few remarkable things tucked away in the film if you look hard enough. Of all the films in the Alien and Predator franchises, Requiem was the worst received by critics, and adjusted for inflation, it was also the least successful at the box-office.