Alien: Covenant

20172 hours 2 minsREnglish, German

HorroRated verdict

Highly Recommended

2010sAlienBody HorrorCreature FeatureSci-Fi Horror

Directed by: Ridley Scott
Written by: Dante Harper, Jack Paglen, John Logan, Michael Green
Produced by: Michael Schaefer, David Giler, Mark Huffam, Walter Hill, Ridley Scott, Sona Pak, Tomi Nieminen, Pierre Escande, Jason Bath, Kilou Picard, Nicolas Delval, Daniel Matley, Martin Lake, Priyanka Balasubramania, Drew Jones

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Body Horror Creature Features Sci-Fi Horror Alien Isolation Cosmic Horror Tech Horror

Why it’s HorroRated

Alien Covenant is a more interesting film than its reputation allows. Ridley Scott's David is one of modern science fiction horror's most compelling creations and the film's willingness to foreground an AI's relationship to creation and destruction over simple xenomorph terror is a real artistic choice. Divisive for exactly the right reasons.

Synopsis

The sequel to Prometheus moves the Engineer mythology toward a story about David's evolution and the xenomorph's origin. Ridley Scott's interest in artificial intelligence and creation outpaces the film's interest in the alien itself. The double David sequences are the film's most interesting formal choice. Divisive for exactly the right reasons.