10 Horror Movies That Really Needed A Better Villain

Alien Resurrection is really best regarded as a completely unhinged fan fiction rather than a genuine entry into the franchise - a moderately amusing if at times profoundly stupid "What If?" tangent in which Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) returns as a clone who oh-so-conveniently retains her predecessor's genetic memories (because of the magic Xenomorph DNA, right?).

While you could certainly argue that the real villains of the movie are the military scientists experimenting on the Xenomorphs, Ripley's ultimate opposition ends up being The Newborn - a grotesque human/Xenomorph hybrid.

It's an interesting idea, albeit not one that the film gets close to successfully pulling off. The slimy, skeletal monstrosity is more laughable than terrifying - creepy in its own uncanny way, but surely not how the filmmakers intended.

The fact that it also regards the Ripley clone as its mother doesn't help things either.

Then again, given that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet originally had the Newborn fitted with protrusive hybrid genitals - before Fox convinced him to digitally remove them in post-production - things could've evidently been even worse.

Though the fourth Alien movie probably couldn't have settled for just throwing regular Xenomorphs at Ripley again, the Newborn's design at least needed a desperate rethink.