Get Ready for ‘Prometheus’ With Footage from ‘Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright’

With the release of 'Prometheus' mere hours away (for people stateside), it's worth noting that there aren't just three sequels and one prequel to Ridley Scott's 'Alien.' There was also a ride called 'Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright,' and that ride employed an auteur to direct its footage (intercut with snippets from James Cameron's 'Aliens'). That auteur: Stuart ('Re-Animator') Gordon.

Our own Matt Singer noted this in his twitter feed, and it's worth looking at now that we're in the midst of 'Alien' and 'Prometheus' mania. The footage is obviously a little bit cheap, but it does feature Gordon regular Jeffery Combs and Tony Todd in the role of the Apone-ish sergeant.

It's also interesting how they refer to the aliens as bugs and leave a nuke to kill the aliens, which makes the footage come across as similar to Paul Verhoven's 'Starship Troopers' - or at least the bridge between it and Cameron's 'Aliens.'

The ride was only done in San Francisco and in Manchester, England, and was released in 1996 as a motion-simulation ride. We can't simulate that here, but if you want to jump up and down in your seat while watching the footage, it might recreate the experience.