With no knowledge of what these creatures are or how they cocoon inside humans before bursting out and rapidly growing into killing machines, these underpaid workers - played by Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, and hero-in-the-making Sigourney Weaver - find themselves going toe-to-toe with a cosmic nightmare.Īliens also made our list of one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time.
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Space would never feel the same after Ridley Scott's landmark horror film, Alien, which featured the hardscrabble crew of a commercial space tug, the Nostromo, accidentally discovering a moon full of Xenomorph eggs. Where to Watch: Starz apps and add-ons, or rentable on Amazon and most platforms. Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, and a returning Michael Fassbender star. The film doesn't exactly take us up to the doorstep of 1979's Alien, as there's room for more story if deemed so, but it does get us close.
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The downed ship emitting the message, however, is connected to the previous movie and contains all sorts of sinister things - ranging from Xenomorphs to androids. The crew gets pulled out of stasis years early and heads to a different target planet, a possible "utopia," to track down a distress signal. Still in prequel mode here, as Alien: Covenant is a sequel to Prometheus, the story picks up 11 years later and follows a colonization ship. Where to Watch: Rentable on Amazon and most platforms. Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, and Charlize Theron star. Sadly, the crew also stumbles across these creators' bio-weapon - the Xenomorph. Here, in the late 21st Century, Peter Weyland (presumedly a descendant of AVP's Charles Weyland) funds a cosmic trip into the unknown, following a star map left on Earth that might lead the crew of the Prometheus to the beings who created humankind. Oscar-winning director Ridley Scott returned to the franchise he created in 1979 with the star-studded prequel film, Prometheus. Where to Watch: Hulu, Freevee, or rentable on most platforms. This would be the final crossover film of the Alien franchise. A skilled, veteran Predator arrives to help clean up the mess and an ample amount of carnage ensues. An Alien-Predator hybrid - the "Predalien" - is now on the loose in a small Colorado town.
Still set in our modern times, and therefore still happening before everything else in the Alien franchise, crossover sequel Aliens vs Predator: Requiem picks up right where AVP left off. Where to Watch: Hulu, Cinemax Go, or rentable on most platforms. Old cults worshipping them would sacrifice themselves to a Xenomorph Queen's brood - the facehuggers - producing adult Xenomorphs, so the Predators could hunt the "ultimate prey." Sufficed to say, things go badly during the Predators' 2004 hunting trip. In the film, humans discover that Predators (aka the "Yautja") have been coming to Earth for thousands of years. Anderson, brought to life a "battle of the titans" concept that first originated in a 1989 comic. Predator, from Resident Evil/Event Horizon's Paul W. The story of the Xenomorphs begins, time-wise, in the first of the two crossover films for the franchise, AVP. Where to Watch: Hulu, or rentable on most platforms. It's being developed for Hulu, according to THR.
There is a ninth film currently in development from Don't Breathe filmmaker Fede Alvarez, with Ridley Scott on board as a producer.
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There are a total of eight movies in the Alien franchise - four in the mainline series of films, two Predator crossovers, and two prequels.