ALIEN: ROMULUS

Director: Fede Alvarez
Starring: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu

They say that in space, no one can hear you scream. There’s something very visceral about that marketing campaign for the first Alien film. The latest in the franchise, Alien Romulus, goes back to its horror roots under director Fede Alvarez. This marks is the ninth film in the franchise if you consider the Alien vs Predator movies. In terms of timeline, it takes place in between the events of Alien and Aliens.

Cailee Spaeney plays Rain Carradine, a young orphan stuck on a space colony lightyears away from Earth with zero sunlight. She works for the Weyland company, and if you’ve seen the other movies, you know nothing good comes from them. Finding her mission and purpose in life has become challenging. By her side is her brother Andy (Jonsson) who happens to be an android. Her friends convince the two of them to join them on an unofficial, illegal trip to a space station hoping to find cryostasis chambers that could take them to another planet or colony all together. They come across an abandoned space station known as the Renaissance that is divided into two sections, the Romulus and the Remus. What they find there is something they could never have imagined- a massive colony of xenomorphs, the vicious alien species and their little facehugger baby aliens that attacked the crew of the Nostromo years prior. Now in theaters

Here’s my review