No, you are not suffering from the Mandela effect if you saw “Aliens” in the theater in 1986 and remember a really cool scene with some automatic remote sentry guns placed in a corridor — against which waves and waves of monsters launched an attack. And you aren’t insane either.
The scene was in the movie when it originally played in theaters, according to my sources on Reddit and Youtube. But it was not included on the VHS version (whether it’s referred to the “theatrical cut” or not).
Variations of the scene can be found in different subsequent cuts of the film, according to fans online — like the director’s cut or the special edition, or versions appearing on television.
Some include dialogue we remember from 1986. (“Next time they just walk right in,” or something like that.) And at least one includes the shots of the aliens being cut to pieces in the corridor. (Notably, the scene below does not.)
Anyway, I am linking to the totally awesome Alien Fire Team Elite on Youtube for the video. Semper fi, gentlemen.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 
Throwback Thursday does it again!
Eric, you can stay on this franchise for as many Thursdays as you like. I am in my happy place 🙂
I believe the first time I was treated to this bonus footage was in the early 90’s when I splurged on a Laser disc player. Yes, when the dinosaurs roamed the earth before the internet and even DVDS, there was ‘high end’ tech that blew away VHS.
The upside of investing in what within 5 years would become obsolete technology, was a wide selection of director’s cut, special edition and letterbox formatted films.
‘Aliens’ was such a film. The automated sentry guns scene added better understanding to why the Aliens eventually discover an alternate route to seek out the human hosts.
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Laser disc!! Now THERE is a blast from the past. Maybe you need to do a Throwback Thursday post about that, Lance!
“Aliens” is probably the greatest sci-fi horror film of all time, in my opinion. (John Carpenter’s “The Thing” is a close second, I think.) What a film!
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Agree on ‘The Thing’. I got to see it on the big screen a few years back at AMC as one of their ‘ Thrills and Chills’ classic horror screenings.
It was AWESOME!
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