If you’re looking for a documentary that just lovingly praises Alien for 90 minutes, I suppose you could do worse than Alexandre O. Philippe’s MEMORY: The Origins of Alien. But if you’re looking to gain a greater appreciation of Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 sci-fi horror movie, you probably won’t find it with MEMORY. If you’re looking to gain a better understanding of how the film came to be, that documentary already exists and it’s far superior (It’s The Beast Within: Making Alien and can be found on the Alien Anthology Blu-…

If you’re looking for a documentary that just lovingly praises Alien for 90 minutes, I suppose you could do worse than Alexandre O. Philippe’s MEMORY: The Origins of Alien. But if you’re looking to gain a greater appreciation of Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 sci-fi horror movie, you probably won’t find it with MEMORY. If you’re looking to gain a better understanding of how the film came to be, that documentary already exists and it’s far superior (It’s The Beast Within: Making Alien and can be found on the Alien Anthology Blu-…

After taking on the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho with the documentary 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene, writer/director Alexandre O. Phillippe is digging into another horror masterpiece -- Ridley Scott's Alien. And today, we've got an exclusive trailer debut for the upcoming doc. With Memory: The Origins of Alien, Phillipe looks to tell the origin story for one of cinema's greatest films; both the story of how Scott, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, and designer H.R. Giger teamed up to create the film, and also, the story of the ancient myths and artwork …