Explorers go to a planet that they believe holds clues to the origins of mankind. While the 2025 TV show ignores the Prometheus arc, it remains the oldest, non-AVP installment in the franchise. It ...

Despite it's rave reviews and season 2 renewal, Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth is actually worsening a problem Alien has had for over a decade. Alien: Earth has done a lot of good for the franchise. It's ...

The Alien movies have long attracted some big-name — or soon-to-be big-name — directors to show off their chops. After sci-fi legend Ridley Scott established the story in Alien, a pre-Titanic James ...

The Alien franchise has lived and died many times over the years. Currently, it’s in a particularly prolific era, with last year’s theatrical hit Alien: Romulus becoming the biggest entry in years and ...

For nearly 50 years, the “Alien” franchise has terrified, thrilled, and fascinated audiences. It all began in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” a claustrophobic horror masterpiece that introduced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Alien: Earth concluded its first season with its eighth episode on Sept. 23 and seven weeks ...

In the Alien franchise, the grisly deaths are usually reserved for the flesh-and-blood humans. But a few of the synthetic beings in the franchise have met horrible and gory ends too. In Ridley Scott’s ...

A singular eyeball attached to slimy tentacles, the organism aggressively implants itself in a human or animal’s eye socket. It acts as a parasite by controlling its host’s actions, turning them into ...

Among the many strange biological wonders Charles Darwin observed in his time, one haunted him above all. “‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder,” he admitted in a letter to an American ...