Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

You’d be hard-pressed to think of another sci-fi horror as influential and iconic as Ridley Scott’s Alien, the film that introduced the world to the jet-black, goop-covered murder machine known as the ...