This summer’s Alien: Earth TV series serves up more than one kind monster – something we’ve seen before in the long-running Alien franchise… NB: The following contains a spoiler for Alien: Romulus.

The setup for Romulus is reminiscent of Álvarez’s own calling card film, 2016’s Don’t Breathe. A group of twentysomethings born into poverty on a corporate-owned mining planet seize on an opportunity ...