The unnecessary initial flashing images already had me worried, as it is a lazy way of conveying a tense and scary atmosphere, even being repeated later on. But in the end, the worst is that they choose to cram all the possible references to the original without any interesting connection or sense, just because they had the means to.
And if it had sufficient material to offer the unseen context of this short film, in the great and simple idea of a pregnant woman about to give birth trying to escape the titular alien, where any scream can be fatal (A Quiet Place, anyone?), what I can't even begin to comprehend is how it doesn't even lean on that throughout its ten minutes duration. You recognise all the references, but you don't connect with anything, because they're present just for the sake of it.
And if it had sufficient material to offer the unseen context of this short film, in the great and simple idea of a pregnant woman about to give birth trying to escape the titular alien, where any scream can be fatal (A Quiet Place, anyone?), what I can't even begin to comprehend is how it doesn't even lean on that throughout its ten minutes duration. You recognise all the references, but you don't connect with anything, because they're present just for the sake of it.