Alien Movies In Order (Release & Chronological)
From Ridley Scott's Alien to the sci-fi franchise's prequel series beginning with Prometheus, here's how to watch the Alien movies in order.
Alien is a sci-fi horror film franchise first started in 1979. The first movie is set in a retro-future setting aboard a spaceship known as the Nostromo. En route to return to earth, the crew of the Nostromo investigates a distress signal from a derelict spaceship. When the investigation leads to a strange alien discovery, the crew's lives are jeopardized as the new, unknown life form hunts them relentlessly.
From Ridley Scott's Alien to the sci-fi franchise's prequel series beginning with Prometheus, here's how to watch the Alien movies in order.
Lambert and Parker's uncut deaths in 1979's Alien would have made the Xenomorph less terrifying and robbed the film of its suspenseful climax.
Two of the Alien franchise's movies wasted screen time on a secondary antagonist, but 2024's upcoming Alien: Romulus won't repeat this mistake.
Alien is one of the biggest science fiction franchises of all time, with even the series' worst movies affirming audiences' ongoing interest.
Alien's latest anthology features a brilliant fusion with '70s sci-fi franchise Westworld, both in premise and its use of deeper themes.
A tease about Alien: Romulus promises some "disgusting" gore and while this is to be expected, it sounds like it's repeating a Covenant error too.
The most dangerous AI in the Alien franchise, MU/TH/UR, is about to make its grand return, and it's bringing a surprising twist with it: a son.
Noomi Rapace is returning to sci-fi for the first time in years with her new Apple TV+ show, which recalls her ambiguous but flawed epic from 2012.
Alien: Romulus is the next Alien film, and it has an interesting placement in the Alien timeline, making it perfect for this character's return.
Isabela Merced, a star of the upcoming Alien: Romulus movie, teases a particularly gruesome scene that had her costars shielding their eyes.
Upcoming projects in the Alien and Predator franchises suggest it may soon be the perfect time for a new Alien vs. Predator movie crossover.
A new mystery has just been presented in Alien with the introduction of a new type of synthetic, which includes the top-secret "Operation Descendant".
Both Alien: Romulus and FX's upcoming TV show are exciting new installments in the Alien franchise. One, however, is more promising than the other.
The Alien TV show is set to make a major change to the lore of the Xenomorphs, with this retcon completely ruining one aspect of the prequels.
The latest addition to Alien lore introduced a horrific kaiju arguably even deadly than the Xenomorphs themselves, and it has officially been named!
Alien's Xenomorphs are facing a kaiju monster-killer as "the perfect organism meets its match" - but what about the humans caught in the middle?
Judging by the director's career, Alien: Romulus runs the risk of taking the franchise too far into dark tonal territory like its most-hated sequel.
Not a lot is known about the upcoming Alien: Romulus, but the movie has already avoided one major pitfall that ruined two franchise installments.
There have been some truly brutal deaths throughout the Alien franchise, but these are the ones that have shocked fans the most across all 6 films.
In Alien's first What If...? story, actor Paul Reiser will be returning to write the shocking survival of Aliens' despicable Carter Burke.
Xenomorphs and Synthetics have had a specific relationship throughout every installment of the Alien franchise - but that has just been rewritten.