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The ‘Alien: Isolation’ Egg Pod Returns for PAX
If you’re planning on ending your week with a trip to Seattle, WA to indulge in the video games extravaganza that is PAX Prime, there are a few things you need to add to your to-do list. At some point you’ll have to make the trek to SEGA’s booth (#232), where they’ll have a giant alien egg pod — the same one that made its debut at Comic Con — for you to climb into for a little personal time with Alien: Isolation. I’ve heard the game is off the charts terrifying, but there’s a chance the pod’s walls will muffle your screams, saving you from public embarrassment.
As if playing Alien: Isolation inside an alien egg pod wasn’t reason enough to warrant a trip to Seattle this weekend, SEGA will be giving away exclusive limited edition Alien jackets in a special “Survive the Demo Competition”. There’s a limited supply, so I recommend you make scoring one a priority — then you can send it to that super underappreciated guy who writes about video games on your favorite horror site. Just an idea.
The other thing I want you to do is make time on Saturday night to attend the party Bethesda is throwing for The Evil Within, where there will be even more opportunities to win
cool stuff, gorge on food and drink, and get your hands on the game’s demo.
PAX kicks off this Friday and ends on Monday, Sept 1. Below you’ll find a picture of that glorious egg pod so you either know what you’re in for or missing out on, and below that is the latest trailer for Alien: Isolation where Amanda Ripley embarks on a ship-wide hunt for an illusive part.
Alien: Isolation hits PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on October 7.
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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