The countdown to this year’s Alien Day continues with the release of two more Alien 40th Anniversary short films, Alien: Specimen and Alien: Night Shift; check them out here…
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It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host.
When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands.
Three more Alien shorts will be released between now and Alien Day on April 26th.
Originally published April 13, 2019. Updated April 15, 2019.
