Alien: Romulus is taking the iconic sci-fi horror series back to bloody basics, with a stripped-back, survival horror focus, gnarly body horror, and the return of a Giger-authentic biomechanical Xenomorph.
Though inspired by 1979’s Alien and 1986’s superlative sequel Aliens first and foremost, Alvarez’s film also nods to Alien’s wider legacy – everything from the less-than-stellar sequels to tie-in novels and comics. And that includes Creative Assembly’s palm-sweatingly scary 2014 game Alien: Isolation.
