Films like AVP: Alien vs. Predator.

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Blade: Trinity (2004) poster
1. Blade: Trinity2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Constantine (2005) poster
2. Constantine2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Covenant (2006) poster
3. The Covenant2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) poster
4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Legion (2010) poster
5. Legion2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Resident Evil (2002) poster
6. Resident Evil2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Underwater (2020) poster
7. Underwater2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Terminator Salvation (2009) poster
8. Terminator Salvation2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Surrogates (2009) poster
9. Surrogates2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

I Am Number Four (2011) poster
10. I Am Number Four2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Alien³ (1992) poster
11. Alien³1992

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Cowboys & Aliens (2011) poster
12. Cowboys & Aliens2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are AVP: Alien vs. Predator’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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