10 Horror Movie Fakeouts We All Fell For
6. Ripley Destroys The Nostromo - Alien
Ridley Scott's Alien may be a deliberate, methodically paced sci-fi horror movie for the most part, but it certainly gives audiences plenty of bang for their buck during its action-packed finale.
Near the end of the film, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) seemingly kills the Xenomorph when she activates the Nostromo's self-destruct sequence and evacuates the vessel in an escape shuttle.
The ship explodes and Ripley prepares to enter stasis for the trek home, but at that moment she realises that there's a stowaway onboard the shuttle: the damn Xenomorph.
And so, Ripley dons a spacesuit as she prepares to battle with the alien creature once more, eventually culminating in the Xeno being blasted out into the cold, uncaring vacuum of space.
Only then, with the alien threat categorically dealt with, is Ripley able to safely enter stasis with the mission's only other survivor, the crew's cat Jones.
Ripley scuttling the Nostromo would've been a sufficiently exciting climax for such a consistently restrained film, but Scott ultimately decided to go all-out with a delirious two-pronged finale.