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AvP Requiem Trailer Guide At long last, the much anticipated trailer for Aliens vs. Predator Requiem has arrived. The film is the second film to pit the deadly extra terrestrials from the Alien and Predator film series and looks to be everything fans had hoped for. The trailer opens with the Fox logo and a shot of a Predator ship zooming through space. The words “In Space No One Can Hear You Scream” show up. It cuts to a shot of the Predator ship crashing to Earth, followed by the words “On Earth.” Two hunters are seen looking at a fireball in the sky. The scenes conclude with the ominous phrase "It Won't Matter" and a scene of a search party in the dark woods with flashlights looking for the crash. We then cut to a Predator vision mode as it scans the rescue party, along a shot of two facehuggers emerging from what looks to be a stasis tube. The next few scenes are of local humans looking distressed and then a man and a boy being attacked by facehuggers in the woods. Things shift into high gear with the discovery of a skinned human hanging from the trees. Humans arein distress, as a scene shows an Alien warrior on the rise. A brutal sequence follows where a human is about to be attacked by an Alien only to have the Alien eliminated by a burst from the Predator's Plasma Cannon. The hapless human is sprayed with acid blood and has his head dissolved. We then cut to a scene of a human stating that the town is completely overrun. Reiko Ayelsworth is seen grabbing a child and running, which is then followed by a quick cut to a man running only to be thrust back in mid air with two blades in him. We then hear a person ask what the Army's evacuation plan is followed by a scene of a military convoy arriving. A quick sequence follows of the Predator unleashing his Combistick and mixing it up with the Predalien, as well as shots of the military returning fire and the Predator;s vision mode. A nice sequence, which looks to be set in a school, shows what may be an Alien Hive. It cuts to a girl being stuck to the wall via the Predator's throwing star and then the Predator using a whip to cut an Alien in half. We hear that there is an airlift in 30 minutes. Then we see a cloaked Predator grab an unsuspecting human walking by. The next sequence has Reiko saying that the Army is thinking about containment mixed in with footage of the Predator grasping two Aliens in his hands... ...while a jet fighter streams over the city and drops a bomb. We see Reiko firing a fixed machine gun in the rain... ...combined with the Predator thrusting his blades into the skull of the Predalien and in turn getting spiked. There is then a series of shots; an Alien menacing a waitress, an Alien coming down what looks to be an air duct and then killing a working with through his construction helmet. A series of fast and bloody clips, such as the Predator blowing the heads clean off of two humans in a terrific spray of gore, followed by series of graphic head-bites and impaling via the Aliens. The trailer then falls to the film’s title and release date of Christmas with the website of avp-r.com. Advertisement The trailer hits a home run and is not afraid to show the gore that fans have clamored for. We also get a battle in a populated locale and what looks to be some very solid action sequences and scenarios. The directing duo of Colin and Greg Strause seem to have captured the look and tone of the series, as well as made it contemporary and fresh. They look to have a solid hit on their hands and perhaps the best film in the series since Aliens. By Gareth Von Kallenbach Comments? Flames? Praise? Mail feedback!