{"id":349,"date":"2007-11-17T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-04-29T23:11:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T05:11:22","slug":"unearthed-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Unearthed (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/MV5BMTczODI3NjQzNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE5OTc0MQ@@._V1__SX1217_SY911_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/MV5BMTczODI3NjQzNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE5OTc0MQ@@._V1__SX1217_SY911_-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BMTczODI3NjQzNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE5OTc0MQ@@._V1__SX1217_SY911_\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/MV5BMTczODI3NjQzNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE5OTc0MQ@@._V1__SX1217_SY911_-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/MV5BMTczODI3NjQzNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE5OTc0MQ@@._V1__SX1217_SY911_.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>Have you ever wondered what would happen if Alien had never been filmed, and the concept sat on a shelf for 30 years, only to be released today as a Sci-Fi Channel original motion picture, set in an isolated corner of New Mexico rather than in space? And instead of being a bit-player warrant officer, Ripley is a sheriff with a dark secret, hovering on the verge of alcoholism? And instead of being trapped on a ship together, they&#8217;re trapped by a closed road and insufficient gas to get to the next town in the other direction? And instead of&#8230; well, no, that&#8217;s pretty much all of the actual differences. The characters aren&#8217;t all identical, I mean, but the four main ones are, which is plenty enough.<\/p>\n<p>My point is, if you&#8217;ve ever wondered that, you should really see <a title=\"Some secrets should stay buried.\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0475417\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unearthed<\/a>. In the style of Alien, it chronicles the discovery of an alien life form that probably killed all of <a title=\"ie, the Mayans of the US Southwest\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anasazi\" target=\"_blank\">the Anasazi<\/a>, has been rediscovered on an archaeological dig, and will now kill all of everyone else if possible. Unless Sheriff Ripley and her doomed companions can find a way to stop it, I mean. &#8230;okay, &#8220;doomed&#8221; sounds like kind of a spoiler there, I guess? I was using literary license; in reality, basically anybody might survive. (Well, not the black guy. You&#8217;ve seen a horror movie ever, right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what would happen if Alien had never been filmed, and the concept sat on a shelf for 30 years, only to be released today as a Sci-Fi Channel original motion picture, set in an isolated corner of New Mexico rather than in space? And instead of being a bit-player warrant officer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,1260,430],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror","tag-horrorfest","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}