#sci-fi and horror

[justacuppat]

I hope you all appreciate this, it’s a New MH sculpt test head. I think it’s supposed to be for the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It looks like a g1 style female head sculpt. Pretty neat in my opinion. I hope to get some decent quality pictures uploaded soon too, thanks for reading all of this.

[psyche-reads]

I love that Gideon the Ninth is marketed as a space opera when like 95% of it takes place on Earth. It’s marketed as lesbians exploring a gothic castle in space, but it’s NOT. The castle is very much on Earth!! I mean, we don’t know that it was Earth until book 3, in which case we were in space by then anyway, but still!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Xenomorph in wonderland by Mark Skelton

[humanoidhistory]

Alien production still.

[guillotineman]

On the set of Alien: Romulus (2024)

[horror-n-m3tal]

Promotional Alien Matchbook 1979.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

thinking about beefsteak fungus. imagine you're walking through the forest. and one of these reaches out. and (tenderly, sensually) licks you

[dailyflicks]

THE SUBSTANCE 2024, dir. Coralie Fargeat

[acecroft]

ALIEN (1979) dir. Ridley Scott Released May 25th, 1979

[lillified]

infinite dead pixels

[allwhiterain]

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Riley in Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Encounter by kolokas

This artist on Instagram

[humanoidhistory]

(via)

[junkfoodcinemas]

LUPITA NYONG'O as SAM in A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024) dir. Michael Sarnoski

[the-irreverend]

I absolutely love the direction they decided to go with the black goo from Prometheus and how it ties into the themes of the film and the franchise.

Rook and Weyland wanted to use the black goo to make humanity better at colonization by ridding humanity of its weaknesses and limitations. But as a result, it creates a human without any humanity.

You even see that same theme in the chip that Andy used to "upgrade" himself with. He wanted to use it to better help the people he cared about, and yet in doing so he lost the care he had for them and tragically ended up becoming more like the cold machine that Weyland-Yutani wanted him to be.

Both the chip and the black goo are perfect metaphors for how people try to obtain, use, or embrace certain things to make themselves "more perfect" or gain more status and power in the system or society they're a part of. And yet by doing so, they lose the things that make us human and become more like mindless machines that think of nothing but serving a system that doesn't care about anything or anyone except those who benefit from it the most.