10 Embarrassingly Poor Horror Movie Monsters

Alien: Resurrection brought the Alien franchise screeching to a halt in 1997. A wisecracking bunch of space mercenaries? A cloned Ripley playing basketball? Aliens threatening to land on Earth? No, no, and hecking thrice no.

The worst bit by far, though, is the hybrid xenomorph that emerges at the end of the movie. The sinister military organisation that cloned Ripley did so, of course, in order to acquire a queen alien for their weapons program. Said queen has developed a humanoid womb that she can use to reproduce instead of laying facehugger eggs. Inevitably, a xenomorph is born which is part-human and part-alien.

Perhaps it’s supposed to come across as tragic and heartbreaking. A doomed creature, trapped in its own hybridity, neither human nor alien. At the same time as it is repellent, you feel uncomfortable compassion for this beast and its evident love for Ripley.

It doesn’t work, though. As well as being corny and poorly realised, it also cuts facehuggers - one of the most compelling elements of the entire Alien mythos - out of the xenomorph's reproductive process. Why would you do this?

Much like the hole in the spaceship’s hull that kills it, the hybrid newborn xenomorph really sucks.