Erik Hawkins is an award-winning writer and editor who's been obsessed with cinema since he was old enough to hold Roger Ebert's Video Home Companion in his hands. He lives in NYC, where he rabidly ...

What started out as a simple monster movie in space -- Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien -- has in the decades since seen burst from its chest, if you will, an entire franchise of seemingly unstoppable, ...

India, Aug. 20 -- Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) shattered all expectations when it fused horror and science fiction in a way nobody had seen before. At its heart lurked a nightmarish creature that felt ...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Earth season 1.Disney and FX's Alien: Earth added so much lore to the classic Xenomorphs that it has completely changed how I view the iconic sci-fi ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Even though it was obviously a dude in a suit, the Xenomorph in the first Alien film is downright terrifying. Due in part to its limited screentime, creating an atmosphere full of tension, and its ...

Originally conceived in the 1980s as a high-concept sci-fi film of ideas crossed with a police procedural, 1995's Specieseventually took shape as a cheesy and sleazy erotic thriller crossed with a ...