# Alien: 40th Anniversary Short Films

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**Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-40th-anniversary-short-films/832197/1 "2019-04-08T00:48:59Z")

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Have you guys seen these? Apparently there’ll be six of them?

[Containment](https://youtu.be/Hu_4PgSXbDY)

[Specimen](https://youtu.be/wKl-fU3WC7s)

Six shorts set in the Alien universe by independent filmmakers. Holy crap the first two are good. They capture the mood of the first film pretty damn well.

I watched Specimen with my fourteen-year-old this afternoon and she told me she wouldn’t watch Containment at all…ever. The short downright frightened her.