But to this day, nearly all sci-fi/horror movies still pale in comparison to the 1979 classic, Alien, which is streaming on Netflix as of October 2026. Directed by Ridley Scott, Alien takes place in ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise presents a new challenge for the franchise to overcome in a sequel to Alien: Romulus and beyond. Based on an idea by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, ...

Over the past couple of decades, as horror movies have started using them as a crutch, the term “jump scare” has come with some negative connotations. The “elevated horror” movement was pioneered by ...

Scott is currently encouraging audiences to check out The Dog Stars, which came to theaters yesterday, August 28, 2026. It's a film adaptation of the post-apocalyptic book of the same name and stars ...

That storyline would give Scott the opportunity to explore one of the most intriguing unresolved threads from Alien: Covenant: what David ultimately intends to do with the Engineers’ technology, the ...

Ridley Scott believes the Alien film series was dead and buried before he made 2012's Prometheus. The British filmmaker directed the original Alien, released in 1979, which followed the crew of a ...

Roane State hosts a free screening of the sci-fi classic Alien at the historic Princess Theatre this October.