Alien³

Director: David Fincher

1992 / 114min / 35mm

Though unjustly overshadowed by its illustrious forebears, Fincher’s gimlet-eyed directorial debut has in time come to be appreciated on its own terms as a work of jaundiced, apocalyptic beauty. Picking up where Aliens ended, we crash-land with Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley—and, as she and others will discover, an old, familiar “friend”—as they crash-land on Fiorina 161, a foundry and men’s maximum-security prison that in short order will be transformed into a slaughterhouse. A facehugger’s close encounter with an inmate’s pet dog adds an awful quadrupedal new entry to the franchise’s Xenomorph bestiary, and provides a lifetime’s worth of nightmare fuel!

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

Part of The Dog Dies