One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

Disney's Alien: Earth ended an era for the famous monsters, but the prequel series taking a big risk with the direction it's taking the franchise.

It's easy to argue that the final shot of a film is its most important. It's the final impression a film can make on an ...

Microsoft arguably peaked with the Xbox 360. These five initially-exclusive titles prove why, as some of today's finest ...

Noah Hawley has brought the sci-fi/horror series to television. Many filmmakers have taken on the “Alien” franchise: James Cameron, David Fincher, Fede Álvarez. Ridley Scott even returned to the well ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Video game endings were leaving a mark on players long before the medium fully embraced cinematic storytelling. Even in the ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

Ari Aster said during a Q&A after an Egyptian Theatre screening of “Hereditary” (via Gold Derby) that he wrote a prequel to his 2018 horror hit, but doesn’t have any plans to shoot it. “I wrote a ...

Ari Aster recently revealed that he wrote a prequel for his 2018 film Hereditary, but “it never feels like the right time” to pursue it. When it comes to transformative horror films from the last 20 ...

During a recent brainstorm meeting, I brought up the resurgence of more clinical, doctor-founded skin-care brands, and one name kept coming up: Prequel. Founded by dermatologist Dr. Sam Ellis in 2023, ...