It is Parallel Frequencies with Just Blane, Coco, and all the Freqs out there. We welcome everybody in. I'm excited for today, Coco. You know why I'm excited. Yep.

I know you've been waiting for this day for a long time. I had to put this one on the schedule and I was like, this is where it's going to fit in perfectly. I was on in studio here. I was on an hour early today. I was sitting here waiting.

You saw me. You came in and I've just been here. I've been waiting. You're jumping up and down on your tippy toes. Yeah, but before we get into Whistler Wednesday and the big flick.

Oh my gosh, I can't wait. Let me just give you a little teaser. Let me give you a little teaser. There you go. There's your tease.

But let's talk about what's going on right now. What have you been watching? You've watched anything good lately? Oh my gosh. You know, it's better when I catch up on the shows and the movies that we are actually going to cover.

Sometimes I get caught up in just like the trash TV type stuff. We've talked about that before where we talked about how I love the Kardashians, but there are certain shows that you watch that they really do leave you feeling just like a grime of filth on your energetic aura when you're done watching them. Do you know what I mean? I don't super love that, but I've been catching up on some shows that are filmed right here, local to us. I want to check it out, see what's going on.

And I was getting caught up a little bit on the secret lives of Mormon wives yesterday. Okay. Not my favorite stuff, but I want to see how those girls are doing because I have a lot of compassion for them. I have nothing against them. I'm like, you guys.

I think I saw yesterday where one of them might be in trouble. So there's that going on. They've halted filming for the moment, but yeah, it is awesome because they went to Ground to Earth. That's one of our local coffee shops. That's our face.

We love meeting there. I do Tarot for Tips quite often there. So it was so fun to see that. It's like, they're right here in my neighborhood. Well, you know what?

I know you're not caught up all the way, but they just went to our other favorite local coffee shop, Land of a Thousand Hills. They were there for this season. So yeah. Oh, I'm a regular there. Look, trash TV's got a place.

Okay. People watch it for a reason. No judgment. The reason could be numerous things. Some people like to just put it on in the background because it doesn't make them think about stuff while they work.

Others just watch it just to see somebody else's lives unravel. That's kind of what we're going to do. And that's where maybe I get the ick feeling because I think I don't want to just, well, it's like we talked about in Running Man when we talked about that movie. Why are you watching this? Why are you watching people be in pain and have drama and their lives unravel?

I guess maybe some of the ick comes from I don't want to contribute to that and I don't want to make that entertainment. These are people's real lives, but I do have a lot of compassion for the people in the show. And if anyone want to come see me, Taylor, if you need me, I'm right in your own backyard. We can book a session. You and I will work some stuff out.

We should get one of the Mormon wives come on the show. That would be awesome. We should. We should get one. It can't be hard.

We'll find one of them. We get one of them. The Mormon wives, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We want one of them girls on this show to come talk to us. And it's not to bash it.

We just want to really talk about it. Yeah. The real housewives of Salt Lake. They filmed one episode right in my front yard. Literally right here.

That's wild. Were you in? You should have come out in your full witch guard. I wish I would have been walking out in my slippers and my curlers and my hair and being like, what are y'all doing at my park? With your drinks with a cup in each hand, you know, drink goblin.

What's going on over there? What are you guys talking about? They were talking about really deep emotional things. And so I was a little bummed that I wasn't there in that episode because I wanted to step out and go, hey, do you guys want to step inside my little witch's cottage right here across the street? We can have a chat.

That'd be great. It's okay to feel sympathy. Sorry for them. But also in the same vein is not because you got to realize these people signed up for this. They know what they're getting into.

They know what they're doing. And they're making money off of. Yeah. Yeah. You know what?

I watched something crazy and I've been pumped about this. It's one of those I put on late at night, not expecting anything and then sat there for two hours. It's called Good Look, Have Fun, Don't Die. The title alone hooked me. But then I start watching this thing and Gore Verbinski directed it and he's done Pirates of Caribbean.

He did Rango, which another buddy of ours, James Ward Burkett worked on Rango. There's a lot of coherence vibes in this Good Look, Have Fun, Don't Die. It's Sam Rockwell. I love Sam Rockwell. I think he's great in everything he does.

He comes into a Norm's Diner and if you live in LA or if you've ever been there, you know what Norm's Diner is. Me and my wife, Lindsay, used to hang out at Norm's all the time. It's an old school, 60s style diner. But he goes into a Norm's. He looks like a homeless dude and he says, hey, come with me if you want to save the world.

And it could have went a whole lot of different directions. It could have been, oh my God, this is this, you know, there's this, this is a homeless guy. He's insane, which some people do think. But no, no, no, no, no, no. This movie actually is true to what he's talking about.

I don't want to give too many spoilers away. It's incredible. It was a crazy watch. And yeah, like I said, it gave coherence vibes in some parts, not all of it. But it's got that sci-fi, that adventure.

I'm going to tell you, there's some heavy parts in there too, because we always talk about how media and the stuff coming out kind of reflects what's going on in society. And it's a mirror of us. And this one is heavy on the AI. It's heavy on AI. It's also heavy, heavy on another subject and it's heavy on school shootings.

I'll just say that straight out. And if that makes you triggered in any way, this movie is probably not for you, but it hits hard. It hits very hard. And you start thinking about it. You're like, whoa, this is a crazy sci-fi movie.

But holy shit. That's kind of what it makes you do. But I loved it. I thought it was great. We're going to cover that.

Oh yeah, that sounds right up our alley. So that's going to go on our list for sure. That's going to go on our schedule. Schedule queen right here. I got it.

I'm on it. The schedule queen is Coco. She puts the movie. If you guys ever want to hear us talk about something, if the Freqs out there are clamoring to hear us talk about a movie like we are today, I know they've been clamoring for this one. Hit us up.

Hit Coco up. She schedules it. Absolutely. All considerations, all ideas considered. That's out there.

But today is Whistful Wednesday and I've already teased it. And let's get real for a second though. Let's set this thing up. What if I told you the scariest thing about space isn't the distance, the cold, or the loneliness, is that you might not be alone. And whatever's out there with you, it doesn't care about your dreams, your family back home, or the profit sharing plan that the company has set up.

Today we're talking about Alien right here. And here's the big chap. I'm going to open this thing up. Look at this. Highly detailed big chap.

Never been on a high shelf. Yeah. And I'm a huge fan of this movie. Always have been for tons of reasons. And this movie came out 45 years ago.

45 plus years ago. And it still hits hard right now. It's the film that came out and said, in space, no one can hear you scream. More importantly, it's the film that really taught us that corporate capitalism will absolutely get you killed. That's what's going on here.

Let's get into this movie. Coco, you had never seen Alien until what, about a year ago? Yeah. Oh, it was probably last year. Yeah.

Which is why I love this partnership because there are a lot of movies that I just bypass throughout the years. And that's not because I'm not a horror fan. I'm actually a big sci-fi and horror fan for generally, for the most part. I mean, how many times have I talked about X-Files on this show? But I guess somewhere along the way, there were just shows, movies, things that passed my way that I just went, I'll get to it later.

I'll get around to it someday. And never, never really did or had an opportunity, I guess. And I generally knew enough about it from all the parodies done. I mean, how many times have you seen somebody have an alien bust out of their chest in some parody or another? So I was pretty clear on where that came from.

Knew that that was something that I was going to get to someday. But I love being forced or challenged to be like, you got to watch this movie. This is the one. It's the time. We're doing it now.

Let's go. I've gotten to see some really amazing movies because of that. This one right here is going to be at the top of my list, probably always. And it goes back really to Ridley Scott. Now, Ridley Scott put this movie out in 1979.

And we're talking about 45 plus years later. But not only is it one movie now, he's built this entire universe around this alien franchise, even crossing over into the Predator realm. Blade Runner, maybe. Let's just say that's kind of tossed up because if you look, things in Blade Runner that you see the same in Alien. And I mean, Wayland-Yutani is the company.

So that's a crossover already. And we got the TV show now. So there's all these things that are still coming out that really touch on the whole vibe as a whole. Like, it's not going anywhere. And you got this perfect organism hunting down whatever it can hunt down.

But I got to thank Ridley Scott for this. For giving me. It's one of those, this would be fanboying out to Ridley Scott saying, thank you for giving me this universe. Now, this movie came out right after Star Wars, right about that time, right when the space operas were coming out, the lasers, swords and all that. And this one had none of that.

This was like a, this is like the grimy, dirty version of space, not the Star Trek, you know, not the pretty, not the Star Wars, Star Trek stuff. This is more realistic to me of what it would probably be like. It wouldn't be all this crazy technology and this. Sure, there'll be some, but it's not, it's not that, that way in A-League. I mean, do you think they would give everybody the top technology they had at the time if they were doing something like, you know, here's these people who just work for a big corporation, organization, whatever it is that they, you know, again, this patriarchy driven capitalist world that's still existing in this space world.

But I, that was what struck me the most. I think first time seeing it was that opening part, the beginning, setting everything up. And it was very realistic and natural. It wasn't like you were looking at something. Yeah.

Kind of, I don't know, depending on the time it came out, I would expect to see like a lot of silver and shiny material and, you know, everyone's eating food in capsules and, you know, you see a lot of those movies on Mystery Science Theater 3000 now is you're kind of making fun of what they thought futuristic space travel would look like. But this just felt like the break room at a warehouse, right? Not pretty at all. I mean, the opening scene, the long shots of the ship, nobody on it, nobody moving around. It's quiet.

It's still, those are unsettling already. And then it goes and you go to this all white, clean room and you see them all start waking up and it's almost haunting how it happens. Because you know what movie you're watching, this isn't going to be a friendly, it's called Alien. You know, it's not going to be happy. I think if it was ET, you know, you might be expecting something like that.

And then you'd be really disappointed. Big time. To me, this is a great representation of what the working class future could, would look like. And that goes back to Blade Runner. Ridley Scott even said at one point that the crew on the Nostromo, which is the ship in Alien here, they probably would have hung out in bars like Blade Runner.

They probably would have, and that's cool to me. I think that that's time to get, he never really officially said that or officially, you know, I guess he did officially say it, but yeah, there's still people who will argue about it. But this is grungy, dirty. I mean, the Nostromo is carrying a, they're a commercial towing vehicle, really. They're carrying like 20 million pounds of ore or mineral ore.

They're just trying to get paid. That's what they're out there for. Yeah, that's the vibe you get. It's very natural. Doing a job.

Guys hanging around doing their job, right? Don't care about space. Don't care about where they're at. Just want to get home. One guy even says it.

I just want to get home to party. Parker says it. Played by Yafet Koto. I love that guy. I love Parker and I love all the characters.

That's another thing. You can't make this movie without any of these characters in it because they all bring it to the table. They all give what is needed and it's the dynamic on the ship. It's so much so that you don't even know who the main character is until halfway in the movie. Yeah.

Think about it. You're watching this and the whole time I'm thinking Dallas. Dallas is the captain of the ship. All right, he's the boss. He's the man.

He's going to be the main character. But that's not what happens. That's when we see Sigourney Weaver Ripley come to the top. The cream always rises to the top and she rises. She comes up and saves the day.

She is in 1979. She was one of the first heroines out there really to be in this kind of a role. My favorite, favorite thing about this movie, why we picked it for Women's History Month in our theme of going through women-centered heroines. And you can see why we chose this even in the wake of talking about Kill Bill earlier this week. And that these heroines are not necessarily filled with masculine traits.

And I will just say from personal experience growing up, and I think a lot of people will have this experience. So Freqs, if you're with me, let me know. I'm going to say that we love seeing someone allowed to be who they are and yet step into a leadership role like this. Growing up as a young girl, you get the idea that in order for you to be considered cool or welcome in circles of both boys and girls, men and women, you have to step into a masculine role. You have to be willing to be one of the guys.

It was cool and okay for a girl to be a tomboy, but it wasn't okay for a boy to be more feminine. Or he'd be called a girl name or he'd be called a sissy or he'd be called whatever. So to see even back when this movie came out, a representation of I don't have to be a boy and I don't have to be masculine. And I also don't have to be sexualized. I don't have to be a, you know, I mean, there may be parts that men think about Sigourney Weaver and I'm not going to lie, it's pretty hot.

But she's not for that. It wasn't made that way or she wasn't made to be that. Which I appreciate and I just have to point out we need more of. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. Let's talk about the pacing of this movie because I think that's what really makes it what it is also because most movies, most horror movies today rush all the scares. Jump scared 10 minutes, gore by minute 20. Alien takes its sweet ass time in the best kind of way. The first 30, 40 minutes, you're just watching people wake up, eat, bicker about how much they're getting paid.

Deliberately mundane. Shooting shit. Shooting shit. It's, it's deliberate because Ridley Scott, what he's doing is he's painting a picture of the rhythm of this world, of his world, the beeps, the hums, the routine. So when that routine shatters, you feel it.

Watching it at home, you feel it. The characters feel it. Your nervous system has been lulled into this false sense of, okay, this is just a space trucker movie. It's blue collar space. It's blue collar sci-fi is what it is.

Then things start getting a little bit weird and you get the face hugger and then John Hurt's character starts convulsing at the dinner table and you get that scene. That scene. Yeah. And the careful pacing is what led to it being an even more shocking scene in film history than it already is. Let's talk about that though, because you said it off the bat.

That's been parodied. It's been mimicked. It's been done in other alien films, the TV show. It's a staple now in alien that you got to have a chest burster scene. You have to.

So it becomes like when, where, and who is the anticipation of that? Yeah. I love that you've mentioned in the past too, and maybe this is part of that build up, pacing you're talking about is the building up the feeling of isolation because it lulls you into a false sense of, yeah, we're isolated here in space, but this is routine. We all know what we're doing. We know what jobs we got to do.

It's just, it just is what it is. And I love that you've mentioned that referencing this movie when we talked about the autopsy of Jane Doe and other movies we've covered where there's that sense of like, you're trapped. There's nowhere else to go. Do you think the pacing has something to do with that with leading it up to that mo the, that feeling of like, oh crap, now we're here at this point and there's nowhere to go. That's it.

And that's exactly it. And the pacing definitely led up all of this because it's not a lot of action until that chest burster scene. And you know what also really made it work was Ridley Scott didn't tell the cast what was going to happen in that scene. They knew something was going to come and happen, but he never told them what the full scene was going to be. So the reveal to them was as it happened.

So that's not acting. That's reacting. Veronica Cartwright, Lambert getting hit with the blood on the face wasn't playing. She, she was shocked and the film captures genuine human terror. Yeah.

And then you see this, this, this slimy creature come out of his chest you, and then it bolts. You barely see it. It's gone. So now you've got that thought of, oh my God, this thing's on a ship with us. We can't get out.

We're not going nowhere. That's terrifying. Yeah. It's not, it doesn't need just the gore. It's everything else.

It's a violation. The buildup and everything else. Yeah. This, this creature used his body as an incubator. That's violation.

That's violating him. And then he wakes up like he's fine. He's a pregnant man is what he is. Well, now they get to feel what it feels like to be like, is there potentially a parasite living in my body that I don't know about yet, which is a common feeling for women who are considering whether or not they're pregnant. So it gives a chance to feel that feeling.

And, you know, I've mentioned before how much I love less is more in horror. The fact that you barely see it or that the, you know, it's this moment and then it slithers off like it's, and then it's just kind of this idea of something that's terrifying. It's more so than having just this monster, right? Yeah. Like I feel like once you see the monster, even if it is going to kill you, even if it is deadly, it's less terrifying to the audience.

It's less terrifying to the people, the actors playing these characters, experiencing it. I feel like when it's now hidden somewhere on the ship, that's just going to intensify the fear. Now, let me ask you this though, because when you did see Big Chap, as they call him, when you did see him, did you lose any of that fear or did it make it worse in this movie? It might be one of the less on this one, but as soon as I see it, I'm less scared. I mean, it's something now that's like, I know what it is.

I see it, especially if you're seeing the full form of it, because sometimes you don't, sometimes you just see, you know, the face or the just the teeth. Yeah. I'm like, what are we calling this? Parts. Okay.

I'll just say parts, parts of the alien and you're seeing parts of it here and there. But when you, when confronted with the full thing, now it's like, all right, time for battle. Now I know what I'm facing here. Right? I don't know how to fight it, but at least I can see it.

And we're, here we go. Right. Let's talk about the xenomorph and the design of the xenomorph. And this is why this movie still holds up now 45 plus years later, it's because there was no CGI and no crazy special effects. It was practical effects for the most part.

And it all goes back to H.R. Geiger. Now that's the artist that created the xenomorph. And his work is disturbing because you've got a xenomorph, no eyes, no expression. It's basis, basis is life off of predator instinct.

Every angle of a xenomorph feels wrong, but yet it's the perfect organism. As we find out later, this thing adapts to whatever's going around. We don't find that out in, in, in this alien, but we, but we do find that out later on as they build the legacy of it. But H.R. Geiger is the one that designed this creature, this big chap.

And to me, it's one of the most terrifying creatures in any creature flick in any horror film, but got to give credit where it's due right there. Yeah. The creativity. I love it. And it only continues to evolve in other alien movies.

And now we've got other types of xenomorphs and face of people. Like there's all kinds of things that are going on. Yeah. Let's talk about Ellen Ripley though, cause that's what we're here for. Now she's the blueprint to me for a heroine, a hero, just a pure blown hero.

Doesn't matter what sex she is, but Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, I don't think anybody else could have played Ellen Ripley like Sigourney Weaver did. You can't cast anybody else in that role now. You got to look at what makes her really different in this. And she kind of knows her role. She knows her place.

She's not the captain. She's just, she's the warrant officers, what she is, but she's also smart. She follows those protocols and rules until she doesn't have to, until she knows somebody better step up or we're not going to make it out of here. And that's when you see her rise to the top. Think about the things that she did.

She's the only one that says, don't let them back on the ship after the face hugger. She questions Ash very early on in a way that almost, if you watch it back now after me watching it, however many times I've seen it, I watch it back now. I'm like, when did she know? Cause it seems like real early on, like she was onto something about Ash. Nobody else seems to pick up on that, but I think she's literally the smartest person on that ship, but she knows her role.

And she's a bad-ass, but it's built up. She's not a bad-ass in one frame. She's a bad-ass because she's surviving and that's what continues to make her this bad-ass. It's like, she's pulling on some extremely realistic reasons why she's showing us in this movie really well. Why women do make good leaders.

I was going to say that about her knowing things before anyone else knew them, or you could kind of see how she's figuring things out. There are biological reasons why women make good leaders. The gray matter in our brains being able to connect left and right brain. We have patterns that represent empathy. When they call it women's intuition, and by the that can be developed by anyone.

I'm not trying to say one better than the other, but there are biological reasons why women have studies have shown have these skills that make good leaders. So you see her step into that role and she's using her intuition. She's using her gut. She's using her enhanced processing abilities, decision-making, impulse control. There's development of the prefrontal cortex of the brain.

Anybody out there, and I know there are plenty of them out there saying that men are better decision-makers, better leaders, less emotional. This movie is a fantastic representation of that's actually not true and she shows up. But you know what's realistic in this movie is when she does make these claims and when she says don't let him back on the ship or when she does argue about ash. Guess what? She gets overruled by the man straight up, but she's right.

Just saying. She's right. I'm going to tell you this too because this is one of the first movies that kind of did this heroin thing, but also did it in a way that there was like no love supply, no random emotional breakdowns to make her relatable. The relation to the viewer at home is she's one that's just trying to live. She's trying to survive and that's it.

That's the only relatable thing that she's got is for me at home to sit there and think oh my god if I'm in her shoes I'm just trying to survive. There's no backstories. There's none of this crap going on that people feel like they've got to write into it to make it feel like this woman character is relatable. No, no, no. Totally relatable to everybody.

Woman, man, whatever. AI even because of ash. But yeah, it's an incredible thing to watch on film and she does it over and over and over again in sequels and doesn't really ever change. Sure, the movies they don't get as much love, but I think they're just as good. Aliens, the sequel is just as good as this one and she's just as strong in that one.

She even gets to take over some motherly instinct because they find the little girl. We won't go too far into Aliens because we're going to probably have to do that one. But even in this movie, the alien, the arc of motherhood, right? That's all kind of in there and she's representing that as well. The final showdown even with the xenomorph and Ellen Ripley is not like what we see other places.

She doesn't go in like Rambo blowing shit up, you know? So the last sequence is quiet. She starts to relax. She strips down to her underwear. There might be your one sexual thing.

Listen, it might just be practical, OK? She doesn't need to be sexualized for that. She just needs to be practical and this is what she's doing. Anybody else looking at her in one way or another, that's up to them to figure out. I also think that it's symbolic that she's stripped down to her underwear and then realizes that Aliens right there with her.

She's basically naked. She's naked. Now to many, sure, people will look at that and be like, oh, look at it. No, no, no, no. I'm looking at it as now she's at her most vulnerable state.

She's naked, trapped in a room, nothing else, no weapons, no nothing and she's got to figure it out. And what does she do? She stays calm. She's slow, deliberate, terrified, but she's focused on her mission, which is getting rid of that xenomorph. So what does she do?

She puts back a dress, dress back up in a spacesuit, straps it on and blows the fucker out of the airlock. She uses the environment against it. Once again, proving that she's the smartest one on that ship, even with a xenomorph who is the perfect organism. She outsmarts it. That's power to me.

Yeah, that's power. Yeah. I don't know if Dallas ends up being the main character. If Dallas is in that situation at the end, what does he do? Does he play it cool, calm and collected like the woman Ellen Ripley is or does he do the Rambo thing like a man and try to fight this thing?

Because I don't think he survives if he did that. Yeah, probably not. And that's probably what people were expecting with a movie like this. So I love the change in pace and I love the highlighting of less of a masculine trait, right? Yeah.

Let's talk about one more thing. The real villain of this movie. Who is it, Coco? I want to say the patriarchy. I want to say the corporation that sent them out there.

It's the corporation, the company. It's Weyland-Yutani. And that's why this feels extra relevant in 2026. The xenomorph scary. Yeah, but you guess what?

It's just trying to live too. If you really look at it, that xenomorph is not really, it's not hunting these people because they're people. It's just, yeah, it's just doing its thing. The company though, the corporation, they knew there was something out there. They rerouted the Nostromo on purpose.

Ash, the science officer, we find out was put there. He's just a corporate plant. His secret directive even was to bring back the organism and the crew is expendable. Yeah. That to me, when you see that.

Profit over people, right? When you see that the crew is expendable and that pops up on Mother, it kind of hits you in the heart. You're like, oh my God. Like that's awful. Yeah.

And that's essentially what patriarchy is in an explanation of that term for people that maybe are thinking that means man-hating. It doesn't mean that. It means the systems that put profit over people and who's first in line to put in the battleground or in the front lines when it comes to that, it's going to be men first. So patriarchy harms men first, meaning those systems that were put in place, those authorities, those corporations, governments, whatever it is, they're going to want the men serving them first. They own you basically and all they care about is getting their profit, right?

Or it going to the top. So you can see that. That's how this was all set up and it's pretty clear. It doesn't benefit any of the people on We see in Aliens, Alien 2, whatever you want to call it, it's Aliens, plural is what the actual title is. But we see in that exactly what you're talking about because they send a team of space Marines, mainly made of men, to the meat grinder of LV 246.

So that's what happens in a sequel. They got Marines going out there. There's some women in there, but the woman, the girl, she's just as much man as the rest of them. She's pushing them and they're joking around. She's real, you know, you got to step into the masculine traits to be accepted in that in that realm when they don't even realize that what they think they have is power.

I'm a soldier. I'm tough. I'm doing what's right for my country, my boss, my leader, my whatever. Nope. You're a soldier.

You're meant to die for someone else. Yeah, absolutely. What is your final thought on Alien? Let's make more movies like this. That's my final thought.

Let's put more Sigourney Weaver actresses into these roles. Let's see more of this and let's see it because if art emulates life and these movies are showing us what we've gotten ourselves into as far as the society goes, maybe that's where we start to make some changes from that patriarchal system to a more matriarchal system. Have you seen any of this? Have you seen the sequels at all yet? Yeah, I have.

I've seen Aliens. Yeah, James Cameron knocked out of the park too. Like we're going to do that. We're going to break that one down because it's up there. I think it won an Oscar too.

Maybe. I can't remember. It's at least nominated. And then the TV show, the TV show is amazing. That's what I need to get into.

I got it. I got it on my list to get around to it. One of these days, all of them have even the latest Alien Romulus was amazing. Big trap actually makes a return in Alien Romulus. No spoilers there, but he does.

He shows back up. All right. She, whatever it is. Yeah. So you need to check out.

I I'm so in, in the Alien universe. And you know what? My final thoughts going to be a little bit different today because I've said this before. I've said that I'm going to tell you why this is the scariest movie of all time, but we're going to do it like this. I got to put the cowboy hat on this for this.

Cause I feel like I'm about to go into a Joe Bob Briggs style of rant on why this movie is the scariest, absolute scariest movie of all time. Let me paint this picture. Like I said earlier, 1979 star Wars came out two years ago. Everybody's doing these space operas, laser swords, happy endings. Then Ridley Scott shows up and says, what is space is the place you could possibly be?

And what if instead of adventure and heroism, it's just you, your crew mates and something that wants to use your rib cage as a nursery, no Calvary, no escape pods that weren't no beaming up Scotty, no Star Trek stuff here, just a cold empty vacuum outside and something worse inside. Let me tell you, I got six points of why this is the best and scariest movie of all time. Remember one, it strips away every safety net there is. It removes every illusion of control. You're in a ship you can't get out of.

You're controlled by a corporation and you don't even know it. You can't call the cops. There's nobody around for 10 million miles or more. And that's probably an understatement because they even said that at one point. How far?

Number two, the monster is perfect. H.R. Geiger already said it made the perfect creature for film. This creature is in a way sexual, sleek in all these designs, but it's violent at the same time, deeply uncomfortable in ways I can't quite articulate. You just got to see it.

Number three, the pacing of this movie is cruel to the viewer at home. This movie does something mean to you and it makes you wait. First 45 minutes, almost nothing happens. You're just watching blue collar space. Like I said, they complain about their money.

Who out there is not paid enough? Everybody, right? We don't know. Nobody makes enough money these days. But like I said, this is Ridley Scott teaching you the rhythm and then everything comes to chaos.

Number four, the chest-burster scene. You can't compare this to anything else. This changed the game of film. Let's just be real. It's the most iconic scene, most iconic moment in a horror film to date.

To date, John Hurt sitting at the table, chest burst out. The reactions are real. You can't, you can't do this again. Number five, it's about class. We already said it, the corporation, the company, Weyland-Yutani sent them there knowing full well what might happen.

And that's what's scary too, because we still see this today. We're all being controlled by something. We may not know what the force is. It could be a Weyland-Yutani in disguise. Number six, Ridley, Ripley is the blueprint.

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley is one of the greatest characters of all time. I said it. It's one of the greatest characters ever written. Not a strong female character in that shallow Hollywood way. She's smart, careful, follows protocol.

And then when she hits the fan, she adapts. She's just as much adapting as the xenomorph is to me. And let me add one more point. I said six, let me add seven. This night still hits the same.

It still works. You know what's coming, but your body tenses up. Even if you've seen this movie, I know what's coming. And I still, every single time I'm watching it, I got my legs up, I got my blanket on. I'm like this.

There's not a lot of movies that can do that, especially on a second, third, 400th time rewatch. You can't get that. Alien does this every single time. That's my case. That's why Alien is the scariest movie ever made.

It's not because of gore. No, it's got a lot of that. It's not because of the jump scares. Barely has any, but because it traps you in a nightmare with no exit. And that's it.

That's my rant. You can hit me in the comments. You can come at me and tell me what's scarier than Alien and we can have that discussion. Freqs out there. But you can not sway me to think that this is not the scariest movie of all time with all the facts included in space.

Let's not forget in space. No one can hear you scream. There it is. I feel better. I appreciate it.

You let me do that, but we appreciate the Freqs out there sticking with us. Hit us up in the comments. This is one of my favorite movies. I don't say that lightly. I never really say anything's my favorite right here.

This is my favorite probably franchise, probably favorite movie. So let's get in the comments, Freqs and come at me or agree with me because we can do both. We can do both of that right here on Parallel Frequencies with Just Blane and Coco. We'll see you on the other side.