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Alien: Romulus director says movie's scare-heralding 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 know, telephones play a prominent role in Alien: Isolation, serving as save points scattered intermittently 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 inexplicable - and by this point, almost unforgiveable - reason you've yet experience Alien: Isolation's masterful slice of sci-fi horror, now is as good a time as any: it's currently discounted by 80 percent on GOG, Steam, Epic, PlayStation, and Xbox.

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