272 // Alien and the Iconography of Terror (With Tristan Jones and Dane Hallett)

Episode art by Tristan Jones (IG: @tristans_bones)

HAPPY ALIEN DAY 2025!!

Looking back through the history of cinema, there are very few - if any - monsters as iconic as the Alien. But why is that? Why are we so afraid of it, intrigued by it, obsessed with it? Why does it speak to audiences in 2025 with just as much power as it did nearly five decades ago?

In this episode (which is something of a third installment in our Anatomy of an Alien Film series), Jaime and Patrick discuss these sorts of questions with two of the absolute, unquestionable authorities on the visual language of Xenomorph XX121: Tristan Jones (IG @tristans_bones), the legendary artist behind projects like Dark Horse's Aliens: Defiance, and Dane Hallett (IG @dane_hallett_art), one of Hollywood's most in-demand concept artists (you've seen his work in Alien: Romulus, Furiosa, Alien: Covenant, and many other places).

There's lots more to come today, so stick around and stay frosty!

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