This is the original run of Alien films, four movies tracking Ellen Ripley from a doomed cargo hauler to the far edge of the franchise. Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien is slow-burn horror in deep space, and James Cameron's Aliens shifts to military action without losing the dread. Alien 3 strands Ripley on a bleak prison planet, and Resurrection clones her two centuries on for a stranger, grislier coda.
The quadrilogy is notable for changing directors and tone with almost every entry while keeping Ripley and the xenomorph as its spine. Horror, war movie, and bleak survival story sit side by side. A film-only set under the parent Alien franchise, it remains one of cinema's defining science-fiction nightmares.
The The Original Quadrilogy franchise spans 4 movies in the CrossBinge catalog.
Part of Alien.
Movies
Key people
- Sigourney Weaver (Actor)
- Alec Gillis (Actor)
- Lance Henriksen (Actor)
- Tom Woodruff Jr. (Actor)