As the infant alien — looking like a monstrous, fleshy and reptilian sperm — broke through a hapless astronaut’s rib cage and showed its metallic teeth, so director Ridley Scott made Alien his ...

Before Steven Spielberg made extraterrestrials cute and cuddly, Ridley Scott made them slimy and savage. One of Hollywood's all-time fear-jerkers, "Alien" returns to theaters in an updated version ...

Running nearly two-and-a-half hours, Willins has cut the two films together for a black-and-white version where “Prometheus” has 30 minutes swapped for an hour of “Alien” footage. It’s an interesting ...

``Alien'' screenwriter Dan O'Bannon had written the characters as gender-neutral, including Weaver's, so the filmmakers could cast either sex in the roles. But he felt strongly that the character ...