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

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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 ...

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20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) captured lightning in a bottle twice with their Alien and Predator franchises. The two most iconic sci-fi horror IPs of all time, the franchises have ...

The film follows five friends who reunite twenty years later to complete an epic pub crawl in their hometown. Their plans are jeopardized when they realize alien droids have taken over the town. The ...