ARGONAUT BOOKS

Alien, that legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, was born out of a terrible monster movie script called 'Star Beast'. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, this book explores how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings. Reviews Luckhurst offers many insights into characters and subtext that would presumably escape the average viewer of Ridley Scott's hugely successful SF/horror hybrid. But he also covers the gestation of the production, which...Read More