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Alien: Romulus director says movie's scare-foreshadowing phones are a nod to Alien: Isolation


Developer Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation is, of course, a stone-cold horror classic, so it only seems right the m…

As fans of the sci-fi horror masterpiece will already known, telephones play a prominent role in Alien: Isolation, serving as save points scattered intermittedly throughout the nail-biting, Xenomorph-dodging adventure. And it's in that spirit Álvarez, tipping his hat to Alien: Isolation, elected to plaster emergency telephones all over his new movie, sneaking them into frame like an omen of imminent horrors to come. And if for some reason you've yet experience Alien: Isolation's masterful slice of sci-fi horror, now is as good a tie as any; its currently discounted by 80 percent on GOG, Steam, Epic, PlayStation, and Xbox.

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