Im at 10:30 into the film and already the female lead opens a case of testing equipment with LV-426 written on the cover. (Aliens)
Anyone notice any other nods?
The Chess Wizard from The Thing shows up as well!
share- Opening scene takes place on June 25, 1982 (US premiere of The Thing)
- Title card fonts are very similar to the ones used for Aliens and Predator merch
- Drinking bird toys from the Nostromo are seen in several scenes
- Big G is an old fan nickname of Godzilla
- Lance spoofs the "bigger boat" line from JAWS
- The thing cuts the power the same way the bugs do in Aliens
I'm sure there's more. There's also several key scenes basically remade from The Thing and Alien.
They are eating the guests, sir.
Lance spoofs the "bigger boat" line from JAWS
The Black guy uses the phrase "voodoo bullsh!t" in an homage to Childs from The Thing. ---It wants no straps. - Karlhttp://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000024/nest/158601447
share"Is that a man in there...?" Spoken by Lance as they chip away the ice.
shareBowman, anyone?
shareThe font of 'HARBINGER' on the chair of the captain is the same font as the one on the title cards of The Thing.
shareI think the captain character said something "dead space". Although I might have just misheard it whiole half asleep between door squeeking sounds
shareSeveral of the camera angles of the Soviet craft are directly from Alien 3. The "voodoo *beep* line from The Thing.
The liquid nitrogen thing was really close to the flamethrowers in Carpenter's The Thing. The chess wizard. The font used in The Thing on the chair. Several references to Aliens, including the LV-426. The release date of The Thing. I think that's about all of them. Oh, and the Jaws reference.
That and when the crew started having trust/paranoia issues, it reminded me a lot of The Thing. The chunk of ice was really similar to Carpenter's film in the way that the Norwegians found it and thawed it out (which is more from Who Goes There?).
Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren.