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Alien: Romulus Is Covered In Isolation's Emergency Phones

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Aug 14, 2024

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Fede Álvarez revealed that he littered the emergency telephones from Alien: Isolation across the new Romulus film.
He used them to mark when something bad is about to go down, so if you see one of these save points, get ready for a scare.
Álvarez also said that playing Isolation is what inspired him to make the new movie in the first place, as it proved to him that Alien can still be scary in the modern day.

In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alien: Isolation, you find respite between your encounters with the xenomorph via emergency phones, "Reꦉgistration Points" t🅠hat allow you to save your progress.

As revealed by Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez, the seventh instalment in the long-running horror franchise pays homage to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the 2014 modern classic by littering theseಞ emergency phones across its own space station.

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"The movie is set up in a way [that] every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone," Álvarez said in an interview with . "In the game, every time you knew there's a phone you'd go, 'F--k, I'm about to get into some bad set-piece.' It's the same thing here.

"You'll see they're planted stategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it's like, brace for impact."

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Álvarez didn't just add the emergency phones for flavour, Isolation is what made him want to make an Alien movie in the first place; it proved to him that the series can still be scary even 45 years after the original was released. So, they're an homage to what inspired him to take on this project.

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He played the game during Don't Breathe's release in 2016, his slasher movie about three thieves breaking into a man's house only for the tables to turn as he hunts them down one by one. Álvarez says that playing Isolation made him realise that he'd "love to do Alien and scare the audience again", returning to the tone of the original.

With Romulus releasing in just two days, we don't have to wait long to see how well he pulled it off. And hey, now we have a nice heads up for when something scary is about to go down—keep an eye out for those phones.