
204 // Alien and Cosmic Horror: Part One
Perfect Organism: The Alien Saga Podcast
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Aliens - A Review
The alien ended like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which tangentially I believe is based on the picture in the house by HP Lovecraft. The last survivor, the woman who finally escapes she climbs into the back of the pickup truck as Leatherface is just out of range with his chainsaw. You get this sense, she's never going to stop laughing. This is it for her, her mind is shattered by what has happened. And that's why aliens is such a good sequel because we get for those minutes, just how broken Ripley is from the experience that she had in the first film.
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