10 Reasons There Are Only 2 And A Half Good Alien Movies

2. Immediate Horror Sequel Death Becomes An Epidemic

Immediate Horror Sequel Death is the despatching of a surviving character from a horror movie at the beginning of a sequel, thus rendering all the efforts to keep them alive during the previous film completely pointless. The demise of Hicks and Newt off-screen at the beginning of Alien3 can be reasonably described as the beginning of the franchise’s decline. Ripley makes it, obviously, but her efforts to keep Newt and Hicks alive in Aliens become utterly hollow given their deaths in the instigating shuttle crash.

In keeping with the whole filmmakers-not-watching-earlier-films thing, the cinematic dusty Finish is repeated with the strangely Scandiwegian Englishwoman Elizabeth Shaw, whose struggle to survive forms the point of Prometheus, dying between movies and appearing in corpse form in Alien: Covenant. So that whole thing was pointless, too. Oh well.