For the 40th anniversary of Alien (1979), 20th Century Fox invited filmmakers to pitch original stories set inside the franchise. More than 550 pitches came in. Six were chosen, and each winning team was handed the keys: the world, the creatures, the dread.
Alien: Ore is one of the six, written and directed by Vancouver's Spear Sisters and shot in a real mine outside the city. Lorraine, a veteran miner, uncovers something in the deep shafts and has to choose between getting out and going back down. Ten minutes, one location, and everything the original taught us about the dark.
Those feelings of fear, claustrophobia and isolation in a new way.
The Spear Sisters · DirectorsA film wearing the Alien name arrives with the most recognisable visual language in the genre already attached. Our job was its most visible surfaces: the title, the typography on screen, and the poster.