Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

When Ridley Scott gave movie fans 1979's Alien, he kickstarted the craze for extraterrestrials on the big screen. Indeed, the '80s marked the decade when we began seeing way more aliens in movies.

The Alien franchise ranks among the most iconic science fiction sagas in history, and deserves to be ranked alongside Star Wars, Star Trek, and Mad Max. What began as an edgy thriller pitched as “Jaws ...