Halcyon International

Back in May we reported on the announcement that Halcyon International Pictures was preparing a slate of low budget movies based on classic movie monsters under the "Famous Monsters of Filmland" banner.

While looking up some info about another movie, I happened upon a listing on the website of Halcyon International Pictures for a new, low budget, post-apocalyptic flick called Day 2 that from its trailer appears to be about survivors banding together to fight off a zombie infection following an all-out invasion of planet Earth by extraterrestrials in rolling gyroscopes.

Reviewed by The Foywonder Starring Rebecca Kush, Steve Deighan, Amelia Randolph Campbell, Jeffrey Plunkett, Ivory Aquino Directed by Andrew Bellware Distributed by Maverick Entertainment Group

Just because it's the 21st Century doesn't mean there is no longer room for movies that shamelessly riff on the Alien films. They were a hallmark of sci-fi cinema back in the Eighties and well into the Nineties. Now here we are in the Zeroes, and this August there will be an Alien Uprising.

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't we mere days away from the start of 2009? Isn't it a little late in the game to be producing blatant knock-offs of the Alien movies?