When Alien premiered in 1979, it didn’t just redefine science fiction — it detonated a fusion of horror and sci-fi that filmmakers have been chasing ever since. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece combined ...

One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as ...