Hissing in the air vents : on the relation of fear and narrative in "Alien: Isolation" (2014)
Journal: Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)
Year: 2019

The late (British) king of horror, Sir Christopher Lee, once remarked in an interview that Alien (1979) was one of the only horror films that ever evoked a visceral reaction in him. Of course, nowadays Alien does not scare us like that much anymore. Alien: Isolation (2014), however, has been dubbed as one of the scariest horror games ever. The story follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, 15 years after the events of Alien, who goes in search of the flight recorder of her mother’s ship,