With a tip of the hat to its predecessors, this 1950s B horror film of a small Colorado town - with its dutiful and overwhelmed sheriff, snotty high school kids, sewers (does a small town have such large sewers?), an ex-con turned hero, a government determined to wipe out the infestation, etc. - incorporates visual and verbal hints to delight the stories' afficionados.
The heroine looks like Sigourney Weaver, the escape vehicle just like the one in Aliens, there's a little girl, it's raining, etc..
The Predator is the ultimate warrior. The Aliens malicious and hyper-productive. The head Alien, born from the chest of a fallen Predator, is a half-breed.
Lots of blood and gore ... the audience clapped when the snotty high school kids got it!
Let's hear it for the B movies of the Fifties: The Blob, The Thing from Another World, Godzilla and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
P.S. I just saw on TV the 2004 "Alien vs. Predator" - in my opinion, the better of the two movies and more consistent in all respects with the original Alien in feel and story. Interestingly enough, here the Predator has personality, in the end, interacting with humans, totally lacking in "Requiem." As always, the Aliens are what they are - utterly vicious.
