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 ...

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The "Alien" franchise is an undeniable classic — a staple of the sci-fi/horror genre. The series features humans fighting for their lives as they're pitted against killer aliens with acidic blood.

The Alien franchise was riding high throughout the 1980s. Directed by Ridley Scott, the original 1979 movie was a box office hit, while critical opinion rocketed from solid to spectacular as the years ...

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 ...