For the past several weeks, IGN has been releasing official Alien Universe short films made as part of a collaboration between 20th Century Fox, Tongal and young filmmakers, and now that “Alien Day” is here, the final two (of six) shorts have been released: Alone and Harvest.
First up in Alien: Alone, written/directed by Noah Miller:
Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
And then in Alien: Harvest, directed by Benjamin Howdeshell:
The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes the crew. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight all along.
Alone is probably the closest the franchise will ever get to The Shape of Water, while Harvest is a much more intense, action-packed reminder of how vicious the Xenomorphs can be!