Alien Romulus - VHS Promo is the BEST thing so far! (SPOILERS)

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This VHS promo video for Alien Romulus is maybe the best piece of marketing I have seen for any film release in recent years. It really boosts my confidence for the movie knowing that the director (Fede Alvarez) cares so much, even right down to the small details. God I hope this film nails it!

[TheRetroManRandySavage]

Yes! I'd love to see the film 80s style.
I'd choose that over 4K every day of the week.

[bsmith]

Looks great. We had a chat about Longlegs the other day, one thing that happened, the showing was an hour late as the projector wasn't working so we got a complimentary ticket (VUE) so I guess I'll be using that to watch this little beauty 🤙

[techstacker]

It's hard for me to hide my excitement at this point. I couldn't have asked for better visuals, sound, and atmosphere. Whoever edited the trailer is also a genius. The acting seems good, and we already know what the main story is, but I hope we're in for some surprises too. Now the last thing that remains to be seen is the character development. Will they make us care?

[mauriciocastanheira]

This could be the film of Fede Alvarez's life...

[dis_inferno]

I really love music from this footage. And also I do like how Rain wonders at real sun. Yeah, this will be great.

[edwardrichardson]

I'm surprised nobody has de-interlaced this footage, upscaled it to 1440x1080 at 60fps and uploaded it - just for the hell of it. The clickity-clack ratchet sound of the seat gives me nostalgic yeebie-jeebies. Whoever cracked the whip on this at Disney must've gone up to the Me-Too Lesbians on the Board (yes, they have them) and went full Jack Nicholson SHINING: I HAVE LET YOU FUCK UP MY LIFE SO FAR BUT I AM NOT GONNA LET YOU FUCK THIS UP. It is everything the STAR WARS/INDIANA JONES reboots were not. Can't wait to see those tapes turn up on eBay for a hundred grand right next to that 1998 McDonald's Mulan Szechuan Sauce for McNuggets (all hail Rick & Morty). I grew up in the country and we had to ride bikes to a country gas station to rent those old tapes, it also had PHOENIX, GALAGA, POLE POSITION, and PLEIADES arcade cabinets in a little room - it was like civilization to us. They never bothered to check for age and thus at 15 were able to watch the Rated-R THE TERMINATOR.

I love the drama of the drop ship takeoffs and landings. For anyone thinking the real deal is a picnic, I submit to you this footage from inside the empty ARTEMIS moon capsule during re-entry testing last year. If no one told you what it was like and you were onboard, you would think were about to die. The popping sound is the valves opening and closing for the attitude jets... which you would hear were you, say, matching the roll vector of a space station (I wonder if Fede will tip to the hat to Kubrick w/ "2001" music just as Cameron did in ALIENS?). If it looks like she reentered the atmosphere and skipped back out then came in again, it's because that's exactly what she did:

[ITSREALLYNOTYOURFAULT]

Dude, you have to keep making regular videos such as this, for us! How else will some of us get to freely vent our emotional damage (and have it recieved in such good nature by yourself) . I think maybe my doom and gloom posts are just a way to disguise my inner exitement.

[davebear]

This is a great piece of marketing.

I think that they could have done a scene between the group on the Colony like a 5 Minute Promotional Scene like the Last Supper from ALIEN Covenant.

So we can get to know the Characters a little before the Movies release

[GetOutOfMyNoodleShop]

believe it or not they have just released copies of Terrifier and Terrifier 2 commercially on VHS. I can imagine they may well release Romulus on VHS

[marcovoid_official]

I can almost smell an easter egg of how this movie ends for the creature, when the oxygen saturated environment of that ships cabin lightens up the flame of the lighter and burns the cigarette in 2 seconds...

[mattearhart]

Not gonna lie, I was super skeptical about this film at first. The confirmation that the Big Chap does in fact make some sort of appearance just seemed like a cheap and lazy way to connect the films. And if the Big Chap did in fact survive and is the cause of more death and terror, then everything Ripley endured and suffered through was all for nothing! Still not 100% sure how I feel about that but further plot leaks and all the excellent marketing up to this point has helped me change my mind a bit and I am now actually getting excited for this film. Cinematography and practical effects look FANTASTIC. Additional leaks and footage indicate that it will in fact be a different Xenomorph that terrorizes the crew so that's very reassuring. We'll evidently get to see an expansion of lore by witnessing more of the Alien's life-cycle. And Alvarez's assertion that this will be a back-to-basics straight-up horror film is a welcome relief from Ridley Scott's ridiculous bullshit attempt as more deep underlying philosophical themes. It's a freaking monster movie, man. Monsters stalk and kill people because that's what monsters in horror films do. As usual, a movie like this will come down to characters and story but I am much more hopeful now than I was a few months ago. The marketing has been absolutely brilliant so let's hope that's not the best thing about this film!

[Grogeous_Maximus]

Oh there aren't spoilers. Excellent. Btw Dude, about the xeno queen:
What if the queen didn't exist before Aliens, and she is actually an evolutionary response
to scientists in attempting to create or control xenos?

[dishsoap]

Hopefully these Zoomer actors can carry the same spirit as previous characters in Alien Movies.

[ScotsGal]

I just pray it'll be half decent ...Alien and Aleins are my faviroute horror sci fi movies and anything that came after them was a let down (for me anyway)...I know that Fede Alvirez is a massive fan of the first 2 movies also and that gives me a bit of hope but I've also got that little niggle at the back of my mind that the vile Disney owns the franchise now ....we can only wait and see

[onixelias]

Wow it looks old as fuck ! I love it can't see shit.i mean this in a good way!

[jameslittle]

believe it or not it didn't look or sound like this. maybe if you rented it after the tape was watched 150 to 300 times.

[Lokazana]

It looks promising. But we'll never know if the movie will be a hit until we hear the dialogue and how they act upon things, pacing and if the alien can appear frightening. I'm not hoping for a reinventing the wheel-movie, just something that stay true to the atmosphere and seriousness of the first 2 movies. The replay value is very much about not getting annoyed at things in the movie from pretty much the first minute, as we can experience over and over again watching garbage Prometheus and trash bin Covenant.

[Keth]

Another Alien, another spaceship, another fight. Another dud script. Another dead-end story. A VHS promo tape? Crasse.