The following contains mild spoilers for Alien: Earth. Between cyborgs, xenomorphs, neomorphs, facehuggers, Engineers, and Alien: Romulus’ terrifying Offspring, there have been countless alien ...

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 ...