You’ve crash-landed on a futuristic ore refinery and penal colony based on outdated ideas of genetic destiny and find that two British men are talking to you about David Fincher’s first feature film, ALIEN³. Simon and Jim discuss the film’s unfortunate scripting issues, the troubled pre-production process, and how this exemplifies the Alien franchise’s identity crisis.

Content warning: body horror; death; animal death; sexual imagery; sexual assault; suicide; abortion; Christian fundamentalism.

Our theme song is Alien Remix by Leslie Wai available on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/lesliewai/alien-remix