To Promote Next Week's Premiere Of 'Alien: Romulus' We've Got People Laying On The Streets Of NYC With Facehuggers Attached To Them
Matt Winkelmeyer. Getty Images.Out of the box movie promotion has gotten out of hand. Gone are the days when a movie like Godzilla (1998) would team up with Taco Bell to give away all sorts of toys with their meals. I'm not proud of the amount of times I made my mom go ring the Bell so I could finish my collection. That shit was awesome.
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Nowadays we get stuff like the unsettling Smile people showing up to sporting events to promote their horror movie and freaking everyone in attendance out.
Same deal with The Strangers and the people in masks popping up everywhere. I don't need that.
Now we have the Alien: Romulus folks having randos laying on the streets of New York with facehuggers attached to them. Imagine visiting NYC for the first time, coming in from a foreign country, and you make a bee line for Times Square, only to see this.
What's great is that a bunch of people laying on the street with fake alien face-huggers still doesn't make the top 100 list of weirdest, craziest things you see in NYC.
My question is how much has to go wrong with your life for you to agree to do this?
How much could they possibly be getting paid? Are these Alien diehards just begging for a chance to spread awareness for the movie? I enjoy the series, but not nearly enough to do this. This should be a punishment regularly handed out in the courts. Shop-lifting? Alright here's your facehugger, go hang out in Times Square for the day.
Bad news for the guy in the second picture, the diseases you'll acquire by simply laying on the ground of the NYC Subway will actually turn you into Klemmer.
I'm actually excited for the movie that comes out next week. Looks legitimately scary and seems to dial it back to what used to make Alien series great — practical pieces and genuine horror. Please don't be bad.