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Alien's prequel series gets 10/10 for quality and 1/10 for franchise continuity

One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

Ridley Scott’s 10/10 Sci-Fi Horror Masterpiece Is Quietly Surging Ahead of Sequel

Ridley Scott's near-perfect sci-fi horror masterpiece is surging on streaming before the franchise's next release.

Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Earth' Is Officially Distancing Itself From Its Winning Formula

Alien: Earth star, Timothy Olyphant, reveals that Season 2 will take the story for the prequel series' next chapter in a very ...

Alien: Isolation 2 keeps the classic horror game's uncompromising approach to raising tension

One of the best horror games of the 2010s was Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, but it certainly took some time for audiences to see it in its proper light. Though it initially received mixed ...
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In homage to the original, ‘Alien: Earth’ made a 64-minute ‘Alien’ movie. Here’s how

Dropping a tribute to Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” halfway through his franchise-expanding series wasn’t easy. But Noah Hawley just had to do it. “The show was already a huge lift, and then to sort of ...

The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough

Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power.

Alien Isolation 2's first trailer takes the horror to a colony planet

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...