What if first contact wasn’t peaceful? What if the invaders were already among us? That’s the unsettling thrill that alien invasion films thrive on—tapping into the primal fear that something smarter, ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

When the universe as we know it collapses, the only creatures with a chance of surviving to see the next age would be akin to Ridley Scott’s xenomorphs. Like the “Alien” franchise itself, they’re ...