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An in-game screenshot from Alien Rogue Incursion, most of the image is black except the center with a flashlight on a hand, some shotgun shells, and a computer module, as the hand considers which to manipulate

Alien: Rogue Incursion Makes Carrying Things Exciting?!

By Elijah Beahm • April 24th, 2025

It’s on you to play things smart.

A screenshot from the trailer for Alien Romulus, featuring a dimly lit space hallway and three human shadows staring pensively into a dark entryway

I Can’t Lie to You About Your Chances, but You Have My Sympathies: Alien: Romulus (2024) and the Plague of Legacy Sequels

By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2024

Those who are familiar with my film opinions will know that I don’t have a high regard for legacy sequels – to put it mildly.

Here's the Thing
A scene from Aliens shows Ripley shining an electric torch across a field of unhatched xenomorph eggs.

Enough With The “Alien” Comparisons

By Rob Rich • August 16th, 2023

Most modern sci-fi horror movies that involve a monster (or monsters) wind up being compared to Alien, which Rob thinks is a load of bull.

Colonial Marines

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 17th, 2022

“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

Letter from the Editor
A shark person standing in front of a field of video monitors.

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2022

By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2022

Welcome to the spoopy season, new columnists await!

Alien Post-Mortem

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 13th, 2021

Who survived? What was left of them? Well, that would be telling.

Alien

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 20th, 2021

In space, no one can hear you make your Panic roll.

Unmissable – Episode 8

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019

Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.

A man with a flashlight points it towards an Alien egg, with another man in the background nearly invisible in the darkness. This is a still from the film Alien Covenant

Alien: Covenant : Keep it Mysterious, Stupid

By David Shimomura • May 22nd, 2017

Part of the terror that powers the xenomorphs is their mystery. When we first find the eggs, we don’t know what they are. Then we meet the face huggers and they’re mysterious too

Two people sitting across from each other at a table in a science fiction spaceship. They are Daniels and Oram, characters from Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant is an Uneven, if Good, Haunted House

By Amanda Hudgins • May 22nd, 2017

Designed for an audience literate in the world of Alien, there’s few moments in Covenant where you are left unaware of the impending doom of the crew. Every new reveal is just a reminder that what you’re watching is an Alien movie.

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