12 Scariest Movie Moments Of 2017

9. Shaw's Fate Is Revealed - Alien: Covenant

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Though murderous android David (Michael Fassbender) initially tells the crew of the Covenant that Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) died when their ship crash-landed on the Engineer planet, it's later revealed that this wasn't the case at all.

Daniels (Katherine Waterston) explores David's lab and find Shaw's extremely mutilated corpse, having been experimented on by David, with the implication being that he may have used her body to help create the Xenomorph eggs.

Considering that Shaw was a fairly likeable character and audiences were invested in seeing the continuation of her journey after Prometheus, for her to die in such horrific circumstances, and probably being alive for some of it, is extremely unsettling.

Though it's somewhat unsatisfying that Shaw died off-screen, Ridley Scott nevertheless did a great job implying her grim fate without actually flashing back to show what happened.

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