SIHA 2020: Start Searching

Trump: The Alien Implant
Supported by Russia

Every spring my thoughts start to turn to the annual Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens (SIHA). Last year, in 2019, I had some hope that China might provide the world with an interesting story about space aliens. Instead, all we got was a new coronavirus. Here in 2020, maybe some other country can produce an interesting alien story, but "Russian alien conspiracy" is not it.

Save Yourselves!

No Aliens Required
Given the inability of film makers to invent interesting aliens, maybe the best aliens that Hollywood can offer are off-screen aliens that we never see. Just let viewers imagine the aliens. Or let the movie's protagonist simply imagine that she is being probed by aliens.

Underwater

I'm searching for an interesting alien that is not some mindless monster.

Silicon Latex alien

The 2020 Hollywood films with aliens don't look very promising. What about television? I have no hope that the current Star Trek show will introduce us to interesting aliens, rather than more latex-mask-humans.

The 2020 alien crop is looking very limited. This might be another year (like 2019) to focus on a retro-SIHA.

Related:
              the SIHA 2020 nominations

Next: Killing Characters.

visit the Gallery of Book and Magazine Covers