With any fandom, there are always specific ideas about how and why things can and should work. That can be true on an individual basis, or a global basis as the fanbase argues about “canon” – what is, ...

When you hear the word "alien" in reference to the film series begun by Ridley Scott in 1978, you probably think of one specific kind of alien: the Xenomorph. The ultra-violent extraterrestrial ...

Undoubtedly, Xenomorphs are still one of the freakiest monsters ever to be released on big screens. The biomechanical design, the green acid blood, and a never-ending hunger for blood still give fans ...

This article contains spoilers from Alien: Earth, Season 1, Episode 7, "Emergence" 1997's Alien: Resurrection is one of the most divisive movies in the franchise. Viewers felt it was a forced revival ...

The lore we got in Alien: Earth was far more extensive and very different than what we knew from the movies. Below you’ll find 10 major changes Alien: Earth made to the franchise’s canon that can ...

The idea of isolation is prevalent through the Alien series. In space, no one can hear you scream, often because there’s nobody left to hear you scream. That theme also extends to the idea of what ...

Alien: Earth is going to places in this long-running franchise that it has never gone before. One of the biggest additions to the lore is the creation of the hybrids, human consciousnesses downloaded ...

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Alien — the creature and the franchise — is a shape-shifter. In the interplanetary dystopia of the Alien movies, the parasitic creature that parasitic CEOs are always trying to capture — and that blue ...

Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...