Setting the film in a space colony prison also did a lot for the film. The claustrophobic atmosphere amplified the threat of the Xenomorph, especially since the prisoners didn’t have weapons that ...

The franchise then branched off to include Alien Vs. Predator and Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem, before eventually returning to its core prequels with Prometheus and Covenant. These prequels explored ...

Ellen Ripley is the warrant officer assigned to the USCSS Nostromo who encounters a hostile alien, the Xenomorph, when its embryo is brought back onto the ship. She's the protagonist of four Alien ...

The dinner scene in the first episode of Alien: Earth is almost a direct analogue to the one that opens the original film, while the crew member meeting parallels the famous chestburster scene from ...

“In space, no one can hear you scream,” went the tagline for the original “Alien” in 1979, a terrifying thought on multiple levels. There may indeed be a scientific rationale for a space scream to be ...