Alien: Covenant also pulls a "Newt," killing off Noomi Rapace's Dr. Shaw off-screen, despite the crucible she endured in Prometheus and her crusade, at the end of that movie, to take the Engineers to ...

Ridley Scott’s Alien set a lot of new milestones for sci-fi and horror – including setting the standard for pulling off a jump scare by hiding a monster in plain sight. By the time Ellen Ripley ...