10 Things You Learn Re-Watching Prometheus

2. ...But The "Birth" Scene Is One Of The Alien Series' Best

Conversely, Shaw's attempted abortion scene later on isn't just the best scene in the entire movie, but it's one of the most suspenseful and terrifying in the whole Alien franchise.

Shaw desperately configuring the surgery machine to remove the squid-like fetus and watching as its embryonic sac explodes over her, before she promptly has her wound stitched up and flees from the monster, is Ridley Scott at his most intensely terrifying.

It further hammers home the series' central psychosexual theme once again, and of course, this isn't the last time Shaw has to encounter her "baby", which quickly enjoys quite the growth spurt indeed.