Romulus' most brutal film continues the dark trend 8 years after 88% horror

WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Romulus

Summary

• Alien: Romulus
  features strong gore, inventive deaths, and constant tension, setting it apart from other entries in the franchise.
• The shocking death of Isabella Merced's pregnant character
  Alien: Romulus
  subverts horror movie tropes, creating an unsettling and unexpected twist.
• Kay's fate
  Alien: Romulus
  drawn out and brutal, reminiscent of the chest explosion scene from the original Alien and adding a new level of dread to the film.

while Alien: Romulus has many bloody deaths Alien The reboot's worst moment continues a surprising trend from the director's previous hit. The Alien movies aren't known for pulling their punches, but some of the franchise's offerings are worse than others. the second Alien Vs Predator movie, Aliens vs. Predator: RequiemIt featured the infamous sequence where the Xenomorph attacks a maternity ward full of pregnant women. It was one of the worst moody moments of the series, although some reviewers accused the sequel of mixing too much shock value and gore with tension and fear.

The Alien the long-awaited reboot of the franchise Alien: Romulus does not share this issue. Coming Evil Dead 2013 directed by Fede Alvarez, Alien: Romulus It shares the gore, inventive deaths and constant tension of the previous horror franchise reboot. Alien: Romulus It tells the simple story of a couple of hapless scavengers who command cryogenic pods from the spaceship Weyland Yutani while trying to escape their harsh lives. Unfortunately for them, there are also plenty of hungry faces on board these shells. Soon, the ship is crawling with Xenomorphs and the heroes will be lucky to escape with their lives, let alone one.

Alien: The Death of Romulus Revisits Fede Alvarez's Horror Work (Again)

Pregnant characters are often spared in horror films

Almost all of them Alien: Romulus' characters die, but the most surprising death in the entire film is that of Isabella Merced's Kay. Pregnant Kay goes through the whole squeeze Alien: Romulus. She is knocked out, attacked by a Xenomorph, cocooned, injected with an experimental serum, and finally killed after giving birth to a human/Xenomorph hybrid. strange, Alien: RomulusKay's death isn't the first Fede Alvarez film to kill off a pregnant characteralthough this twist is rare in the world of horror films. Even like horrible, humiliating horrors Rise of the Evil Dead usually allows pregnant people to survive.

However, Alvarez did not spare a pregnant image in her 2016 horror hit. Don't breathe. Don't breathe and Alien: Romulus' plot similarities are obvious, as both films follow morally ambiguous, desperate young anti-heroes who venture into a shadowy place to make a better life for themselves, only to be singled out by an unexpected enemy. The strangest similarity between the two films is the treatment of the pregnant supporting characters. In Don't breathethe female captive became pregnant and was accidentally shot a few minutes later. In contrast, Alien: RomulusKay, who is pregnant, almost reaches the end of the film.

Kay's Alien: Romulus's Death Is Badder Than Not Breathing

Kay's fate is drawn painfully

Don't breathe's minor supporting character, Cindy, undergoes a brutal ordeal at the hands of the film's villain, but her ultimate death is relatively quick and sudden. In contrast, Kay's Alien: Romulus the death is more compelling than most deaths in the franchise and is as hard to watch as the original. Alien's chest explosion scene. Kay makes it up to the Xenomorph, but her odds of survival steadily decline from there. Although Alien the hero of the reboot is doomed to die after injecting the serum, Kay's blood loss seems to him Alien: Romulus In either case, the hero would not survive his ordeal.