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Did You Spot the Neomorph Hiding in the ‘Alien: Covenant’ Trailer?

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We got our first official look at the new creature. And we totally missed it.

Christmas morning was a special one this year, as Santa came down the chimney right around midnight and delivered the greatest gift of all: the Alien: Covenant trailer, of course! The Ridley Scott-directed Alien prequel, headed our way on May 19th, will feature both a classic Xenomorph and at least one brand new Neomorph, the latter of which we told you all about yesterday.

To sum up, the Neomorphs are born when alien spores are released from pods and enter the bloodstreams of humans. The babies burst out of the backs and throats of the infected humans, and eventually mature into Xenomorph-sized monsters. The main difference between the Xenomorphs and Neomorphs seems to be that the Neomorphs have a white/translucent appearance, which calls back to both early Prometheus concept art and H.R. Giger’s original concept design for the Xenomorph. The babies walk on all fours, while the adults stand upright.

When I wrote yesterday’s post, I noted that a Neomorph is not seen in the Alien: Covenant trailer (though the brutal birthing process is teased), but frequent commenter J. Jett let me know that I was quite wrong about that. He explained that there IS a Neomorph hiding in the trailer:

You can see the Neomorph in the red band trailer!! It’s about the size of a large-ish dog and it is indeed white-ish colored. It’s from the scene where Amy Seimetz’s character fires a grenade (or whatever)…

Sure enough, at 1:33 in the trailer you will spot a baby Neomorph walking around on all fours. A couple months back, you may remember that images of a few props from the set leaked onto the internet (they’ve since been removed), and what we see in the trailer lines up exactly with the prop of what we thought was, at the time, a baby Xenomorph. Now we know what it really is.

Thanks for spotting this, J. Jett!

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Brings the Netflix Franchise into the 1980s

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Netflix’s Fear Street franchise launched back in Summer 2021 with three movies, the trilogy saga telling one complete story that spanned from 1666 all the way up to 1994.

Directed by Leigh Janiak, the three movies were Fear Street: 1994, Fear Street: 1978 and Fear Street: 1666, the first film taking a page out of the Scream playbook, the second paying tribute to the golden age of slasher cinema, and the final film turning the clock even further back. What’s next from the saga? The fourth film is titled Fear Street: Prom Queen.

Coming soon, Fear Street: Prom Queen is based on the same-titled book that R.L. Stine published in 1992, and it’s set to take the film franchise – yet again – into a brand new decade.

Fear Street: Prom Queen will be nestled between the events of Fear Street: 1994 and Fear Street: 1978, with the new movie confirmed this week to be set in the late 1980s!

In Fear Street: Prom Queen, “Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.”

Matt Palmer (Calibre) is directing the franchise’s upcoming fourth installment.

The Prom Queen was book #15 in R.L. Stine’s teen franchise, originally published on March 1, 1992. If you’d like to read it before the movie comes out, you can always find copies on eBay.

No word yet on when the Netflix movie will be released. Stay tuned for updates.

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