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The Fun ‘Alien’ Easter Egg You Probably Missed in ‘Underwater’! [Image]
We’ve done a good deal of writing about this year’s Underwater here on Bloody Disgusting, with articles including an interview with director William Eubank about THAT monster in the final act and a rundown of ten interesting things we learned from the home video release’s bonus features. Not noted in the bonus features, however, is a fun little nod to Alien…
Eubank took to Twitter on #AlienDay yesterday to reveal the Easter egg connection between Underwater and Alien, which comes in the form of a Weyland-Yutani branded seat belt that Vincent Cassel’s Captain Lucien uses as an arm sling. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation is of course the company behind, well, pretty much everything in the Alien franchise.
Underwater, like Alien, is a 20th Century Fox movie, and from what we gather, the Weyland-Yutani belt featured in Underwater may be an actual screen-used prop from the Fox vault!
Fans of Alien had been comparing Underwater to Ridley Scott’s horror classic from the very beginning, and indeed the two films do share much in common. But does this mean the movies actually take place within something of a shared cinematic universe? The Easter egg is likely just a fun nod more than any sort of legit connection, but it sure is fun to imagine!
Look closely…
Since it’s #AlienDay I figure now is a good time to post this… @UnderwaterMovie … I’ll let the keen eyes find it… pic.twitter.com/ESwwROWdLd
— superswift (@superswift) April 26, 2020
After a massively successful box office run that scared up $364 million (and counting) at the worldwide box office, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is now available on Digital at home.
You can either digitally rent or digitally purchase the A24 horror film on outlets including Amazon Prime, and it’ll cost you $19.99 for the rental and $24.99 for the purchase.
As for the extended 16-minutes of footage that were included with the recent theatrical event Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition, Parsons promises it’s coming online.
The extra footage is expected to hit the Kane Pixels YouTube channel this week.
The sixteen minutes of “Everything Must Go” footage essentially plays out like a new episode of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms YouTube series. You can read all about it right here.
No word yet on a physical release for Backrooms. Stay tuned.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Megan wrote in her review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
Backrooms
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