Certain movie moments just stick with you for life, and the scene in which a creature bursts out of John Hurt's chest in the film was gory enough to get our stomachs churning—but for the actors on set ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

The 1979 film Alien conjures up scenes of chest-bursting extraterrestrials, 7ft–tall Xenomorphs and the threat of what monsters could lie out in the endless expanse of space. To understand where Alien ...