De Alien-franchise blaast dit jaar 40 kaarsjes uit en ter gelegenheid kregen fans de kans om een kortfilm binnen de wereld van de xenomorphs te maken.

Uit de ruim 550 inzendingen werden er zes gekozen en de bedenkers kregen de toestemming om uit de hele Alien-mythologie te putten.

De kortfilms gaan in première op verscheidene conventies en vanaf 3 mei verschijnt er elke week één op IGN. Bekijk alvast een voorsmaakje en beschrijvingen van alles zes hieronder:

Alien: Alone (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.

Alien: Containment (Chris Reading) – Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around the outbreak that led to their ship’s destruction, they find themselves unsure to trust whether or not one of them might be infected.

Alien: Harvest (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.

Alien: Night Shift (Aidan Breznick) – When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands.

Alien: Ore (Spear Sisters) – As a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony, Lorraine longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren. When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, Lorraine is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and facing her fears to fight for the safety of her family.

Alien: Specimen (Kelsey Taylor) – It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host.

Bron: /Film