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April 16, 2008
Alien Experience
http://www.alienexperience.com


By A.M. Dellamonica

"Everything Alien and Predator" is what fans are promised at The Alien Experience, a Web site devoted to the melding of the cinema's two most deadly SF creations. With coverage of the upcoming DVD release of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, game reviews, notes on auctions of AvP tie-in merchandise and a host of downloads, this site delivers the straight goods to visitors, helping them keep tabs on this fast-moving, high-adrenaline franchise.
The Alien Experience site is jammed with intriguing content: a gallery containing movie stills and AvP fan films; a Scripts section that contains, among other things, a draft of an Aliens 3 screenplay penned by SF author William Gibson; and a discussion forum whose thousands of posts examine the technology, writing and biology of both alien species, as well as more general topics—literature, filmmaking and gaming, to name three.

This fusion of two originally separate film series is a unique cinematic marriage. It began in 1989, with the release by Dark Horse Comics of the first Alien vs. Predator title. A year later, sharp-eyed filmgoers spotted a xenomorph skull in a Predator's trophy collection in Predator 2. Now, almost 20 years later, there have been action figures, video games, crossover novels and, of course, the two AvP films. Despite the lackluster reviews garnered by both of these recent pictures, a third is rumored to be in the works. For anyone who just can't get enough of the AvP story, the Alien Experience Web site is just the place to find out everything about what's next for this made-in-Hollywood clash of the titans.