These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

The Alien franchise is one of the most iconic and enduring in all of sci-fi cinema, even if not every entry is a classic. The original Ridley Scott movie was essentially greenlit only because the ...

Few horror franchises have had the impact of Alien. Over the last four-plus decades, there have been nine movies, several video games and comics, and the hit TV series, Alien: Earth. The films have a ...

Steven Spielberg has technically been making movies about UFOs and aliens for longer than most people might realize. His very first “film,” called Firelight, was purportedly feature-length, and then ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...