1 Easter Egg From The Original Movie In The Alien: Romulus Trailer Has Us Really Excited

The nail-biting teaser trailer for Alien: Romulus includes an awesome throwback to the trailer for the original 1979 movie with an Easter egg that suggests a similarly terrifying cinematic experience. Set in the 57-year gap between Alien and Aliens, Alien: Romulus will follow a brand-new space crew as they contend with the most frightening creatures in the galaxy. Directed by Don’t Breathe’s Fede Álvarez, Alien: Romulus promises a return to the haunted house horror of Ridley Scott’s original film – and the teaser confirms it with a tantalizing Easter egg referencing the trailer for that movie.

From a blood-soaked pod to a horde of angry facehuggers, there are a ton of terrifying moments in the Alien: Romulus teaser that promise an intense horror thriller on par with Scott’s original movie. There’s plenty of franchise iconography to place this new story in the familiar Alien universe, and an ensemble cast of expendable astronauts like the team led by Sigourney Weaver in 1979. But there’s one particular aspect of the teaser trailer that calls back to the original in a way that teases an Alien movie with the same spirit as Scott’s groundbreaking masterpiece.

The Alien: Romulus Trailer Uses The Same Siren Sound As The Original Alien Trailer

Throughout the teaser trailer for Alien: Romulus, an ominous siren can be heard emanating from the soundtrack, warning the audience of danger lurking around every corner. Not only does the siren create a palpable sense of dread that makes the movie seem even more exhilarating; it’s a throwback to the original film. The exact same siren sound effect could be heard in the initial trailer for Scott’s first Alien movie. Not only is the reuse of the siren effect in the Alien: Romulus teaser a really neat nod to the original; it also creates the same claustrophobic mood.

The terrifying tension of the timeless first Alien movie came from the fact that the crew is trapped aboard the Nostromo with no escape from the bloodthirsty beast lurking in the shadows. The siren ringing throughout the entire ship in the original trailer captured that feeling perfectly. By using the same siren sound effect, Alien: Romulus is promising a similar feel: the characters are stranded on their ship, unable to leave, with a sadistic xenomorph (or possibly more than one) on the loose. The fact that Alien: Romulus is aiming to recapture the original film’s tension is a great sign.

The Alien Easter Egg Confirms Romulus Is Returning The Franchise To Its Roots

Ever since Alien: Romulus was first announced, Álvarez and the producers have promised to take the franchise back to its haunted-house-in-space roots. But the use of the siren sound effect in the teaser trailer finally confirms that they’ve succeeded in taking the Alien series back to its roots. Alien: Romulus’ teaser trailer is the closest that the Alien franchise has gotten to recapturing the feel of the original film in four decades’ worth of sequels – and the siren sound effect goes a long way toward creating that feeling.

The siren blaring out in the teaser trailer emphasizes that Alien: Romulus will be a return to the single-location survival horror of the first film. In Aliens, the characters had a whole colony to explore. In Alien 3, there’s a whole prison planet at the characters’ disposal. They had plenty of places to run and hide from the xenomorphs. In Alien: Romulus, much like in the first movie, they won’t have that option. The Star Wars-like planet-hopping of the other sequels has undermined the claustrophobia that made Scott’s original film so effective.

Other Throwback Elements Are Being Included In Alien: Romulus

The siren sound effect isn’t the only familiar iconography from the Alien franchise that can be spotted in the Alien: Romulus teaser. The trailer is full of loving homages to imagery and technology from the franchise’s storied history. The characters are seen armed with the same pulse rifles used by Ellen Ripley and the Colonial Marines in previous Alien movies, which will surely serve them well when they need to fend off xenomorph attacks.

The appearance of pulse rifles isn’t the only nod to Alien iconography in the Alien: Romulus trailer. The gonzo spaceship design calls back to H.R. Giger’s distinctive aesthetic, while the expressionistic lighting calls back to Scott’s direction of the first film. At the beginning of the trailer, there’s a hypersleep chamber covered in blood. It seems as though someone was woken from hypersleep early by a bloodthirsty xenomorph, teasing what could be a hair-raising opening set-piece.