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I was just a boy when I saw ALIEN in the comfort of our home. I suppose the novelty of our first night with a subscription movie channel was the only reason my parents let me watch one of my first R-rated films. In truth Alien Quadrilogy is the most horrific thing I've ever seen, but with a fantastically intelligent plot.

Dare I say it but viewing this dvd as an adult seemed much scarier to me than when I was a kid. The pacing is brilliantly slow. The stillness and quiet gave me the creeps the way 2001 and SILENT RUNNING did. Why don't we have quiet sci-fi dvds any more? Sigh. Instead of bombarding us with sensory overload, ALIEN keeps us on edge the way good horror does – by not showing us too much. When things do happen, the surrounding quiet amplifies the terror. We only get to see the alien in fits of flashing glimpses. We don't even get a good look at the thing until the 93rd minute!

That was the only time I'd seen ALIEN until reviewing this behemoth Quadrilogy dvd box set. I've often said that DVD's are an obsessive compulsives dream, and this set proves it with all four ALIEN movies in both their theatrical versions and special editions and audio commentary for both versions of all four films. If that wasn't enough, each film gets its own disc full of extras including features galore, deleted and extended scenes, screen tests, multi-angle animation, storyboards, stills, original screenplays, director Q & A, laser disc archives, DVD-ROM content, etc, etc, etc, uh, etc. There are a total of 9 discs, a collection rivalled only by the LORD OF THE RINGS box sets.

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Merchant	Title	Price
	Alien Quadrilogy	£29.99