Alien

Featured in Alien, Blade Runner, and multiple Star Wars films, there's one ambient sound effect more satisfying and relaxing than any other ...

If there’s one person who can be trusted with bringing Alien to television it’s Noah Hawley. The creative mind behind Fargo, the four-season anthology series spawned from the Coen Brothers film, is currently writing the sci-fi horror series which will enter production in spring of 2022. Few details are...

Scott. Cameron. Fincher. Jeunet. The Alien franchise feels unique in the horror realm for being so director-driven; each film gifted a unique style based on the man behind the camera, yet all playing into the same story of extra-terrestrial terror. Alien, Prometheus, and even the messy Covenant are all...

Parasite or symbiote? That’s the question at the core of the 2020 Russian chiller Sputnik. In 1984’s Kazakhstan, a space module returns to Earth carrying two cosmonauts, and in turn one of those spacefarers may be carrying something else. Something otherworldly. Confined to a military installation with seemingly no...

Spoilers for Alien Covenant follow. In the fan community, Alien Covenant seems to be just as controversial as Prometheus and this lack of shared appreciation appears to have affected the box office return for the film. I enjoyed the film quite a bit, just as I did with Prometheus,...

Spoilers for Alien Covenant follow. Duh! When Prometheus was released in 2012 it left us with a lot of questions and the promises of answers. 5 years later and we finally have a sequel (of sorts) with Alien Covenant and did we get the answers we were looking for?...

I fell in love with Alien the first time I saw the film when I was about 12. Its stripped back feel and tone made for a perfectly contained sci-fi horror while still hinting at an interesting wider universe full of dangerous alien races and even more dangerous earth-based...

When Ridley Scott recently spoke about Prometheus 2 he revealed Noomi Rapace was no longer part of the cast, and the sequel would be titled Alien: Covenant instead. Also The plot had changed, rather than it following Noomi Replace’s character Elizabeth and android David, it would instead follow a...

While writing about the extended cut of Alien 3 last week I remembered the brilliant documentaries that accompany the Alien films on the Alien Anthology Blu-ray box set. The Alien 3 documentary not only charts the downfall of David Fincher as director with some interesting footage of him shouting...