But back in the 1970s, this was anything but a sure thing. Nobody knew whether HR Giger's horrific alien creature would hit big with audiences and it's fair to say that very few would have pegged this ...

The eerie image of the Alien egg chamber was (in a movie where practically every scene qualified for this title) one of the most striking visuals in the entire film. The dropped-out floor, the ...

James Cameron's Aliens is, undisputedly, one of the greatest films ever made, and a perennial favourite of all at Empire. Small wonder then that Empire’s very own Ian Nathan, who has written books ...