“Ripley then takes off her clothes, and as soon as she does so the Alien reappears. Here we have the truncated causality of the horror genre. As in The Bacchae, The Blob, Blood Feast, Slumber Party Massacre, and countless other examples, as soon as an attractive young woman removes any article of clothing a monster appears whose task is to kill the woman and destroy the city, or in this instance the spaceship” (E. Michael Jones, Monsters from the Id, p. 252).
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