LOS ANGELES – In space, no one can hear you scream. But sitting in front of a game console in a darkened room, it turns out people can definitely hear you shriek. And whimper. And curse like Pvt.

In his two Wolf Creek movies, director Greg McLean has depicted the Australian outback as an utterly hellish locale in which tourists are easy prey for actor John Jarratt's murderous madman, Mick ...

Truth: there’s no form of entertainment better at scaring us than video games. Movies, TV shows, books, comics… all these things can be terrifying, when done well. But games have the innate advantage ...

One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as ...

There's nothing quite like the primal fear that the "Alien" franchise can instill in viewers. The original 1979 Ridley Scott film is a classic for a reason: It's a master class in body horror and bone ...

After my disappointment over cheestastic alien abduction flick The Fourth Kind, I wracked my brain to come up with alien abduction movies that are actually scary. I made a short list – vote on these ...

Landing on Earth – this summer. FX on Hulu has revealed a second teaser for the spin-off series Alien: Earth. This teaser debuted during the big football game this past weekend, and still doesn't ...

More than 45 years ago, Alien slunk into our collective consciousness with its unforgettable central monster and convincing portrayal of how much it sucks to be a space trucker. It’s one of those ...

Dorothy Woodend is the culture editor for The Tyee. She has worked in many different cultural disciplines, including producing contemporary dance and new music concerts, running a small press, ...

There's nothing quite like the primal fear that the "Alien" franchise can instill in viewers. The original 1979 Ridley Scott film is a classic for a reason, a master ...