Part of the beauty and appeal of Alien as a movie series is that, like the titular alien, these stories can take on all different forms. After 1979’s Alien set the bar high for sci-fi horror, it was ...

There are two types of Alien fan: those who believe Prometheus enriched the franchise by adding layers to its in-universe mythology, and ones who claim the prequel only diluted the 1979 original's ...

The rich irony at the heart of the storied “Alien” franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...

For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979's Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with ...