Sam Kriss

Please stop making Alien movies

Why have we spent the past 45 years – which is longer than I’ve been alive – making seven different versions of the same film?

Alien: Romulus is not a bad film – but it’s also a direct copy of a much better film that already exists. ©Disney  
issue 17 August 2024

In the Alien films, a xenomorph is a monstrous, all-consuming life form that exists only to make more and more copies of itself. Once the first xenomorph appears, it’s only a matter of time until all those gleaming chrome walls will be covered in creepy black goo and the humans suspended lifeless from the ceiling in webs of slime with their chests ripped open.

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