Most of a decade later, Alien Resurrection wasn’t exactly a masterpiece on any front, and the Dracula video that was still a permanent feature in my VHS player would be staying that way! As for Alien, the same could probably be said of Alien 3, which was the first in the series I’d been old enough to see in the cinema, but while neither that nor Resurrection are ever going to be anyone’s favourites, none of them have ever really been mine! Yeah, I know it’s heresy for a horror and sci-fi nerd to say such things, but it’s not for the want on trying! As I write I’ve just been delving into the lovely quadrilogy DVD box set I received on one of my first Father’s Days, mainly for a fresh fix of Winona Ryder with unusual hair, but I’ll often watch one or the other of them, and I’m not saying I don’t enjoy all of them well enough, but you know what? I’d rather watch Alien vs.

She’d been my thing for a while by then surprisingly, given my later tastes for similar, I was never drawn towards her Beetlejuice performance in 1988, but Heathers the following year was a whole different matter, and suddenly the likes of Sarah Greene, Belinda Carlisle, Emma Samms, Heather Locklear and a bevvy of Page Three lovelies were all being shoved aside for this nerdy 17-year old’s new Queen of Hollywood!

When Alien Resurrection came along in 1997, it also brought with it the sorry realisation that I was far more excited about the first opportunity (that I could reasonably justify, at least!) to see Winona Ryder on a cinema screen since Bram Stoker’s Dracula five years earlier than I was watching a new Alien movie.

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