The film will be released on August 15, 2024 […]
20th Century Studios has just released promotional material for its new feature film, Alien: Romulus, considered a “truly scary cinematic experience by producer Ridley Scott and writer-director Fede Alvarez.
In that thriller science fiction and horror film, which will be released in theaters only on August 15, 2024, the audience will return to the roots of the Alien series, the eighth passenger, from 1979, on a journey of exploration into the depths of an abandoned space station, where a group of young space colonists encounter a terrifying life form.
The film features Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s murder is easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and bones), Isabela Merced (The last of us), Spike Fearn (After sun) and Aileen Wu.
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Museum of Aliens
The Alpine clichés on the outside don’t seem to match the surreal and disturbing world on display inside this museum, 147km from Zurich, Switzerland.
While not an exclusive collection of one of science fiction’s greatest classics, the HR Giger Museum is dedicated to the creator of this frightening figure who debuted in cinemas in 1979.
The Swiss artist Hans Ruedi Giger is the father of the creature, with whom he won an Oscar for the visual effects of the first film in the series, Alien, the eighth passengerand has his collection displayed at Château St. Germain, a 13th-century castle, in Grueyéres.
The place is striking for its visual design, with rooms with black walls and floors with high-relief hieroglyphics featuring Surrealist-influenced works, such as sculptures, drawings and large-format monochrome airbrush paintings.
But whatever your level of artistic knowledge, what you’ll really want to see is the best-known work of this sculptor, painter and set designer, who died in 2014. There’s also Alien standing, climbing the walls and hanging from the ceiling , and the statuette won at the Oscars in 1980.
As if on a living 3D screen, the visitor comes face to face with the original dolls created for the original being from the planet LV-426 who changed the routine of the crew of the Nostromo ship.
With works in dark tones and rich in details, the exhibition is an invitation to the human mind, on a visual journey in which Giger’s fears and nightmares served as inspiration.
Just as the artist declared in the documentary HR Giger Revealed, by director David N. Jahn, “scary things satisfy me”, thus mixing art and his psychological problems, especially those experienced in dreams, nightmares and fears personal.
The Alien Collection also includes original drawings made for Alien³ (1992), details of the mechanism behind the drooling monster that brought down crew member Ellen Ripley (a character played by actress Sigourney Weaver), as well as sculptures and paintings that reference to the film.
Alien bar
Across the street, the surreality continues HR Giger Bar Museumone
bar/museum with decorations and architectural design designed by HR Giger himself.
Opened in 2003 after a four-year renovation, the bar has a cave-like interior, covered by a structure of arches resembling a skeleton, and the glass tables are surrounded by the famous Harkonnen chairs, another work by Giger known for his backrests that imitate a spinal cord.
To stimulate sensations in the bar, the artist also invested in furniture with materials that make the customer feel as if he were inside a living being, such as polished concrete that imitates the softness of animal skin.
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HR Giger Museum
Rue du Château (Gruyères – Switzerland)
Every day, from 10:00 to 18:00
Tickets: CHF 12.50 (approximately R$70)
Source: Terra
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