Few narrative dead-ends in sci-fi have been as frustrating as the Alien franchise abandoning Prometheus. Prometheus saw Ridley Scott return to the universe he launched with Alien, expanding the scope ...

If you've seen the latest Alien interquel, Alien: Romulus, then you likely caught some of the biggest connections to the larger franchise. Set in between the original Alien and its direct sequel ...

The newest trailer for Alien: Earth promised to change the entire Alien franchise in one huge way, and it could fulfill a goal Ridley Scott has had since Prometheus. Ridley Scott was the director ...

The opening moments of Prometheus present a visually breathtaking but puzzling prologue. Viewers witness a lone Engineer on what appears to be a primordial Earth, positioned beside a thundering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of what made the xenomorphs so scary in the original Alien and its sequels was that nobody really knew what the xenomorphs ...

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In 1979, Ridley Scott changed sci-fi horror forever with Alien. It was the ultimate monster movie, a tale that was part haunted house film and part slasher, all the while creating one of the greatest ...