(1992) | Alienві

Despite its mixed reception, the film was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 65th Academy Awards.

Ellen Ripley is the sole survivor of the crash, as Newt and Corporal Hicks are killed in the impact. Unknown to Ripley, an Alien facehugger survived the journey. The creature gestates within an animal (a dog in the theatrical cut, an ox in the assembly cut), giving birth to a "Runner" Alien that begins picking off the unarmed prisoners in the labyrinthine facility. AlienВі (1992)

The inmates have formed a fundamentalist religious cult, viewing the Alien as a "beast" sent to test or punish them. Despite its mixed reception, the film was nominated

Unlike the action-heavy Aliens , this film returns to the series' horror roots but with a bleaker, more spiritual tone. The creature gestates within an animal (a dog

Immediately following the events of Aliens , a fire aboard the spacecraft Sulaco causes an escape pod to crash-land on , a desolate refinery and "blast furnace" inhabited by a colony of male inmates with a "Double-Y" chromosome mutation.

David Fincher has famously disowned the film, citing constant studio interference from 20th Century Fox.