How to Watch the Expanded Live-action Alien v Predator Movie Universe

Your chronological guide to watching over 60 movies, episodes and short films of the Alien vs. Predator (AVP) movie universe

“There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man.”

Billy, Predator (1987)

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched sea-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”

Roy, Blade Runner (1982)

“You’ve been in my life so long, I can’t remember anything else.”

Ellen, Alien 3 (1992)

AVP is a Sci-fi action-horror saga composed of 68 live-action productions. Two AVP movies link the two main franchises, and film-makers such as Alien director Ridley Scott included easter eggs in other sci-fi franchises. Based on his and others’ postulations, the Blade Runner universe gets added and even the 1998 film Soldier. 

In the Predator franchise, Earth has been periodically visited by a sentient species of aliens since the dawn of history. They are the Yautja. They have a highly conditioned martial culture and they hunt humans and other species throughout the galaxy to prove their mettle amongst their clans. 

In the Alien movies, humans have already begun colonising outer-space and mega-corporations such as Weyland-Yutani are at the forefront. The highly aggressive, endoparasitoid Xenomorph species terrorise these interstellar colonisers, in particular a woman named Ellen Ripley. 

Linked up, it’s an epic movie universe. It’s a timeline that spans the Middle Ages until deep into the 3rd Millenium, depicted in no less than 18 Hollywood major-feature movies, a TV series and an array of fantastic fan films. Over 40 hours of sci-fi satiation are broken down into 22 ‘Chapters’ laid out below.

(Note: this collection does not include animated productions.)


AVP Chapter 1

FeaturesTime Period
Predator: Dark Ages

Prey

ZVP
C.12th Century – 1830s 

The earlier centuries almost exclusively document the Yautja human-hunting expeditions around Earth. In Predator: Dark Ages, we go back to the time of the Crusades in England where a mighty Knight Templar, accompanied by his small retinue, is summoned to seek out and slay a ‘beast,’ being helped by the most unlikely of sources.

Jumping forward to 1719 in N. America, the movie Prey has another predator hunting Native Americans, European fur trappers and any deadly wildlife it can lay its hands on. It is up to ‘Naru,’ a young Comanche woman, to confront the predator and prove her worth to her tribe. Naru acquires a pistol after an unfortunate Italian translator named Adolini perishes at the Yautja’s hands.

We wrap up the evening with a tangent into the fantasy genre and brush up against the Zatoichi universe. In ZVP a ‘blind masseuse’ encounters a predator whilst battling a gang of super-baddies in early 19th Century Japan.

AVP Chapter 2

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No Man’s Land

The Creature from The Big Mountain

Untitled Predator Fan Film

Predator
1915 – 1987  

Into the 20th Century, we start on a 1915 Galipolli battlefield in No Man’s Land. An extraterrestrial ship infested with xenomorphs crashes into Earth before the xenomorphs wipe out a unit of Turkish soldiers in their trenches. After nothing is seen nor heard of the enemy across no man’s land, a platoon of Aussie soldiers decide to ‘go over the top’ and take the enemy trenches in blissful ignorance of what now lies in wait.

In The Creature from The Big Mountain, two Jews are running for their lives from a squad of Nazis. Another band of Wehrmacht soldiers intercepts the soldiers with a new mission: to investigate what has landed from outer space into the woodland in which they stand. There’s some great plot developments for the AVP canon, including an origin story for a major character later down the timeline.

On to the Solomon Islands in 1944, Untitled Predator Fan Film (Its actual title) depicts a squad of US GIs who bump into a predator that has already massacred some Japs. Will the Americans and their sworn enemy team up to kill what is assailing them, possibly? 

Then of course the original, and arguably best movie, Predator – set in (presumably) its release date of 1987. Projecting machismo at its very, very coolest, ‘Dutch’ leads a team of burly, slick special forces soldiers into the Nicaraguan jungle to investigate the disappearance of a squad of elite covert-operatives like themselves. It all goes sour, despite the team’s combat prowess, and eventually Arnie has to draw on all his resources to survive the hunt.

AVP Chapter 3

FeaturesTime Period
Predator 2
1997  

From the jungles of Central America to the LA ‘jungle’ in Predator 2. It is 10 years on and Los Angeles is buckling under a heat wave and drugs war. LAPD is holding the fort with Lieutenant Harrigan in the firing line – a grizzled veteran of going toe to toe with the most violent men on LA’s mean streets. Facing an invisible extraterrestrial hunter is another matter entirely though. We find out that the ‘Deep State’ has become aware of these alien intruders as they have sent one of their top guys ‘the last person in the world you wanna f**k with’ to capture a Predator alive. Finally, the ‘Adolini pistol’ makes another appearance, somehow acquired by a predator from the Comache ‘Naru’. They practise their code of honour and award Harrigan the antique for fighting a good fight in the predator spaceship in which we can see a Xenomorph skull in their trophy cabinet.

AVP Chapter 4

FeaturesTime Period
Alien vs. Predator (AVP)
2004  

Into the 21st Century and there are some major revelations about this universe and who humans share it with in the movie AVP. Weyland Industries, headed by its founder Charles Weyland, makes its first appearance when Mr Weyland sets out to discover why a large pyramid structure was suddenly detected under the Antarctic ice by his corporation’s satellites. We discover that the Yautja are not just bloodthirsty killers but an advanced civilisation that introduced pyramids to the first human societies. These pyramids were used as training grounds to breed Xenomorph infestations, using humans as their parasitic hosts for Predators to test their mettle against. We see some kick-ass combat between aliens and predators as the human expedition struggles to survive in the subterranean pyramid. Expedition guide Lex Woods survives by teaming up with a predator before they vanquish an alien-queen. Lex is customarily rewarded before clan members take away the body of their fallen kin. 

AVP Chapter 5

FeaturesTime Period
AVP: Requiem
2004  

In AVP: Requiem, hours after the events of AVP, a Xenomorph emerges from the killed predator – one of the deadliest of all – a Predalien. With the other Yautja on board slaughtered, their spaceship crashes back onto Earth and a major outbreak of Xenomorphs threatens to run rampant through a Colorado town. The race is on for a veteran Yautja hunter to eradicate the Predalien and its brood; the ultimate test. As the town descends into pandemonium, one party of people race to ‘get to the choppa’ on the hospital rooftop but bump into the predator and acquire its shoulder-blaster. Finally, the authorities cut their losses and nuke the town as the chopper flies out before crashing. The film closes with the shoulder-blaster being handed over to a Ms Yutani to dissect… The warp-speed development of technology to launch humanity into the space-age now begins.

AVP Chapter 6

FeaturesTime Period
Predator: Buck Fever

The Predator
1998 – 2009  

In Buck Fever, a hunter, separated from his group, finds himself stalked by an unknown creature. With the game rules being switched, he becomes the prey.

Sometime between the events of Predator 2 and Predators, The Predator takes a more jocular approach to the franchise. There are at least two subspecies of Yautjas – the Predators we’ve come to know and the much bigger and brutal Super Predators, complete with their own ‘attack dogs.’ In a story where a Predator, being pursued by a Super Predator, crash-lands on planet Earth and is eventually butchered by his pursuer before an alliance of misfit soldiers and government agents battle the Super Predator to the death in a disjointed plot, us humans get hold of a lot more extraterrestrial technology, including a ‘Predator-killer’ suit. Plus, a Yautja is examined up close to discover that their genetic makeup contains human DNA. Ms Yutani makes another appearance in this film, running ‘Project Stargazer.’

AVP Chapter 7

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Predators
C.2010  

In Predators, it’s 2010 now and it turns out they not only come to Earth to hunt but kidnap humans to hunt on their very own ‘game reserve’ planet. Eight soldiers, criminals and murderers – all selected for their expertise in violence – awake to find themselves plummeting into a jungle canopy, landing with a bump. Strangers one and all, they band together to find a way out. They are, of course, being tracked. A trio of yautja, unseen but always near, with their attack hounds – covered in spiky horns this time – and recon drones, pick them off one-by-one. Will the earthlings be able to survive the hunt? With a mysterious covert-ops warrior ‘Royce’ leading them, they may just have a chance. After discovering the yautja’s camp, a rival predator of the hunters is discovered trussed up and may prove to be their ticket home. Also, they bump into a human resident of the planet, but who knows whether he’s been ‘in the field’ for too long.

AVP Chapter 8

FeaturesTime Period
Tears in the Rain

Blade Runner: More Human

 Blade Runner
 
Blade Runner(s)

Slice of Life

Paper People

Remember Me

The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023

Blade Runner Blues

Blade Runner 2032
2017 – 2032  

By the year 2017, while not apparent in the Predator productions, a huge amount of technological development occurred after mega corporations like Weyland-Yutani and Tyrell researched the captured yautja technology. Space colonisation has been a thing for some time now, an enterprise that will discover the alien xenomorph species before the end of the century. Replicant engineering advanced to such an extent it came to play an integral part of societal functioning. Yet, their engineers struggled to keep control over their creations so it was decided to eliminate replicants from Earth. Developed nations have devolved into dystopian societies, at least as far as major cities such as Los Angeles are concerned, and it is here that the Blade Runners’ efforts to track down and ‘retire’ replicants play out.

In Tears in the Rain Mr Kampff hunts replicants and learns the hard way that their detection is nearly impossible without specialist equipment. The Voight-Kampff replicant detector gets put through its paces with an unexpected result In Blade Runner: More Human.

Onto Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: It’s Los Angeles in 2019; the rain never stops and darkness is perpetual. Deckard is tasked with hunting down a trio of rogue ‘skinjobs’ led by ‘Roy’ – a highly deadly combat model looking to override the four year cap on replicants’ lifespans. In Deckard’s pursuit of his quarry, a conflict of interests arises when he meets Rachael.

In the aftermath, other Blade Runners must contend with the dilemma that they’re hunting and retiring replicants but might just be replicants themselves in the featurettes Bladerunner(s) and Paper People. Meanwhile, Slice of Life gives us the sidestory of a man so desperate to escape his godforsaken existence on Earth, he does whatever he can to pay the astronomical price for a ticket to another planet; anything from drug-dealing to stealing. He finds himself at the mercy of fate when he encounters a cop with an agenda of his own.

A blade runner is confronted with an unexpected connection between herself and a rogue replicant she was tasked to retire in Remember Me. Onto 2023, we hear Peter Weyland give a speech about his aspirations and plans for technological development that will pave the way for the future Alien movie universe in The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023. One replicant uses all of her seductive charm to make a deadly negotiation for her life to continue with her family in Blade Runner Blues. And finally in Blade Runner 2032, 10 years after the blackout, a rogue replicant finds himself in a live or die situation.

AVP Chapter 9

FeaturesTime Period

Predator vs. Colonial Marines

Soldier
1996 – 2036  

Predator vs. Colonial Marines: A band of Marines enter a warehouse to capture a Predator alive for Mr Weyland in this cool 360° VR theme video in which the viewer can pan the camera around to keep track of the action.

Soldier: From his birth in 1996 until he is 40 years old, Sergeant Todd has lived only to be a stone cold, indomitable fighting machine until his unit is replaced by a new breed of super-soldiers and Todd is thrown on the trash pile. On the Arcadia 234 waste disposal planet, Todd must learn to live amongst a small community of hidden humans and bring to the surface his own humanity. Todd ends up having to face-off against the super-soldiers who come to annihilate his community.

David Peoples wrote Soldier and Blade Runner and regards them as part of the same universe. Todd fought in some of the same wars as Roy in Blade Runner and we may regard Todd’s unit as Colonial Marines.

AVP Chapter 10

FeaturesTime Period
2036: Nexus Dawn

2048: Nowhere to Run

Blade Runner 2049
2036 – 2049  

In 2036: Nexus Dawn, Niander Wallace exposes his psychopathic lust for power whilst making his case for the law prohibiting replicants to be repealed. Tortured soul Sapper Morton destroys a band of thugs about to attack his friend but exposes that he’s a replicant in the process. Fleeing the scene, he drops his written home address for an informant to report to the police in 2048: Nowhere to Run. 

30 years on from Blade Runner and older replicant models continue to be hunted, often by newer-model replicants. Officer K is one such Blade Runner. The underlying theme throughout the franchise is whether the value of human life is truly greater than that of a replicant’s – human in almost every way but treated as little more than slaves by their callous masters. After ‘retiring’ a ‘skinjob,’ K unearths the remains of the replicant Rachael who had conceived a child with Deckard. If replicants can procreate, it may be proof that they are as worthy of life and liberty as humans. The grown up progeny is now being sought by K, Wallace and others, but is K, himself, that grown up child?

AVP Chapter 11

FeaturesTime Period
Happy Birthday, David

Weyland Industries Testimonial

Project Prometheus: Mission
 
Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw

Prometheus Transmission 

Prometheus 
2089 – 2093  

On towards the 21st Century’s dusk and we’re into deep space exploration with Weyland Corp. They’ve sent an intrepid band of scientists, accompanied by an apparently sympathetic synthetic named ‘David,’ to explore moon LV-223 where they hope to uncover the origins to all life. What they don’t know is they are heading into a fiendish trap to spell their doom.

A series of short Weyland promo productions (listed above) gives us background info on the coming mission: We are introduced to David; we hear from a Weyland employee espousing the company’s values and merits; we get a rundown of Project Prometheus’s training centre; Dr Shaw sends a video to Weyland, pleading her case to go on the mission; the crewmembers of Prometheus make short presentations to Weyland Corp.

Onto Prometheus itself, many revelations come out of this film. Long ago, a race of humanoids called Engineers seeded life on an unknown planet. Onto the year 2089 and scientist-couple Shaw and Holloway discover a star map in a cave, directing them to the moon LV-223, setting in motion a Weyland Corp. mission to explore the moon four years later. When the expedition finally sets foot on the LV-223, they discover a barren terra-forma with an artificial structure nearby. The situation for them quickly escalates as the expedition’s naive members become infected by some black goo that seeds their torsos with protomorph lifeforms, all along with David’s creepy connivance. The ailing Peter Weyland has also come along for the ride, but why? Prometheus offers more questions than answers in this controversial prequel to the Alien franchise.

AVP Chapter 12

FeaturesTime Period

Alien: Covenant – Phobos

Alien: Covenant – Prologue: Last Supper

Alien: Covenant – Meet Walter

Alien: Covenant – Crew Messages 1 2 3 4 5

Alien: Covenant – Prologue: The Crossing

Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant – David’s Lab: Last Signs of Life

Alien: Covenant – Advent
C.2104 

11 years on and a colony of thousands of humans aboard the Covenant spaceship sets off towards Origae-6 to make new lives for themselves. A bunch of short featurettes prologue the main movie: Covenant crewmembers get a psychological assessment from their employer, Weyland-Yutani – now merged; Colonists enjoy a convivial last supper before they enter cryostasis for the long journey ahead; we get an intro video of another synthetic named ‘Walter’ – more benign than David? Let’s hope so; colonists leave some short messages to the people they’re leaving behind; we see what happened to Dr Shaw and David after they escaped from LV-223.

Onto the main feature, Alien: Covenant. A disastrous power surge terminates the colonists’ stasis and, in light of new circumstances, they set course for a new planet. Again, their demise awaits them; only the meek can inherit worlds in this universe. The world they land on is verdant yet lifeless, apparently, yet the parasitic alien life that decimates the crew now comes in spore form. On the cusp of catastrophe, David appears as their saviour. It is only as he leads the human visitors into the dark depths of an ancient city the race of Engineers once populated that David’s fiendish schemes truly come to light. David is obsessed with creating life, just like Weyland created him, by using human hosts to breed his own Protomorph subspecies. This, despite Walter doing all he can to protect his human charges.

We find out a lot about David’s diligent research and experiments in creating his own subspecies, sacrificing any trusting humans he can in order to gain scientific knowledge of the origins of life that Peter Weyland began. This is fleshed out in David’s Lab: Last Signs of Life and Advent

AVP Chapter 13

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Alien: Earth, Episodes 1-2
2120

In Alien: Earth, it is now the ‘Corporate Age’ when our planet and the colonised extent of the Milky Way is divided up between five mega corps. One of those corps., Prodigy, creates six hybrids – synthetics with the consciousnesses of terminally ill children uploaded into them named ‘Wendy’, ‘Smee’, ‘Slightly’, ‘Curly’, ‘Tootles’ and ‘Nibs’. A rival corps., Weyland-Yutani, has a sabotaged research vessel – whose crew have been slain by a menagerie of deadly aliens onboard – barrelling towards Earth where it crash lands into a tower block of the Prodigy-owned city named New Siam. The only Weyland-Yutani survivor to emerge from the wreckage is the ship’s security officer – a cyborg named Morrow – who does all he can to secure the aliens for his employer. Prodigy security teams must secure the crash site and its highly valuable alien specimens, but one of the aliens – a xenomorph – is already wreaking havoc. Wendy realises her brother has joined one of the security teams and, scared for his safety, volunteers the team of hybrids to go in and help secure the crash site.

AVP Chapter 14

FeaturesTime Period

Alien: Earth, Episodes 3-4
2120

After much pandemonium in which Morrow escapes the crash site cordon, the site is secured and Prodigy moves the aliens to the corp.’s Neverland research island for further study, much to the glee of Prodigy’s founder, Boy Kavalier – the world’s youngest ever trillionaire. Morrow now makes it his quest to steal back the alien specimens and does so by contacting Smee and grooms him into trying to steal a xenomorph from Neverland’s secure research site, even threatening to kill his parents if he doesn’t do as Morrow wishes. Nibs, meanwhile suffers a severe mental episode after the trauma of what she witnessed at the crash site and is placed under house arrest. Boy Kavalier, meanwhile is keen to experiment with his new pets and infects a sheep with the ‘octupus-creature’ which turns out to be a highly intelligent species. Wendy learns she can communicate with the xenomorph, a skill she’ll soon use to her advantage over her supposed guardians at Prodigy.

AVP Chapter 15

FeaturesTime Period

Alien: Earth, Episodes 5-6
2120

We go back to what happened to the Weyland-Yutani research vessel, USCSS Maginot. Everything was going fine until Boy Kavalier recruited a crew member to sabotage the ship so that it would deliberately crash into New  Siam city, though not before the entire crew, except Morrow, were slaughtered by the released aliens which were released by the saboteur to cause havoc.

Back on Neverland island, things begin to unravel; Wendy’s brother, Joe, attempts to escape the island with Wendy. And Slightly, under great duress, manages to infect one of the scientists with a facehugger as Tootles is killed by another of the deadly aliens in the lab.

AVP Chapter 16

FeaturesTime Period

Alien: Earth, Episodes 7-8
2120

All hell is breaking loose on the island as the season closes out; Wendy takes full control of a xenomorph which she uses to kill anyone who gets in the way of her attempt to get off the island with her brother and Nibs. Slightly, joined by his faithful friend Smee, lose the 2nd xenomorth that emerges from the dead scientist while Morrow leads an invasion with a Weyland-Yutani tactical operations unit to retrieve the specimens and kill Boy Kavalier, but is foiled in his attempt by Prodigy’s top synthetic and chief scientist named Kirsh. Wendy eventually turns on her human charges and uses her xenomorph pet and advanced capabilities to basically take over the island and hold captive the Boy Kavalier and his top lieutenants before a massive Weyland-Yutani invasion force is seen approaching the island.

AVP Chapter 17

FeaturesTime Period
Alien

Alien: Night Shift
C.2122 

It’s now 2122 in the film Alien, the oldest but arguably best movie of the whole series. Ellen Ripley, crewmember of the Weyland spaceship Nostromo and her fellow crew-members have just been awakened to investigate a strange signal from the nearby moon LV-426… The eggs of the Alien xenomorph species lie in wait for some hosts. ‘Curiosity kills the cat’ (though not literally) in this suspenseful sci-fi horror classic. We learn a lot about the callousness of the Weyland-Yutani Corp in their determination to harness the xenomorph for their own ends; they will be relentless in their efforts to capture a xenomorph and synthetics serve their creators well. Ripley ‘pulls out all the stops’ (quite literally) to escape the stricken space-tug.

Sometime after the events of Alien, a space trucker and co-worker are reluctantly allowed inside a colony supply depot before the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker to take matters into her own hands. The fable of Ellen Ripley and Nostromo is spreading, in Night Shift.

AVP Chapter 18

FeatureTime Period
Alien: Specimen

Alien: Romulus

Alien: Lost Transmission
C.2142

A botanist and her four-legged friend do their best to contain an eight-legged creature that turns up in a colony greenhouse in Specimen.

Twenty years after Ripley escaped from the xenomorph-infested Nostromo ship in Alien, Weyland-Yutani recover a cocooned alien from the ship’s wreckage and take it to the Renaissance research station and, there, a xenomorph infestation kills everyone. Ignorant of this, a young group of downtrodden colonists on LV-410 discover that the ruined, drifting research station has entered their planet’s orbit, and set out to recover its cryochambers they can use to escape LV-410 for a new life somewhere with at least some sunlight. The gang of six, including orphaned miner Rain and her brotherly android Andy, manage to recover the cryochambers before they awaken swarms of onboard facehuggers. Pandemonium erupts as they struggle to escape Renaissance with their lives. All this in Alien: Romulus.

A month after the events on Romulus, in Alien: Lost Transmission, Colin and Naomi get trapped in a small maintenance room aboard a secret Weyland-Yutani vessel as a xenomorph tears through the rest of the crew. Can they reach the escape pod before the alien reaches them?

AVP Chapter 19

FeaturesTime Period
Alien Absolution

Alien: Birth

Aliens
 
2160 – 2179 

In 2160 in Absolution, a mining colony manager intercepts a cargo-container being smuggled in and takes it for himself. Little does he know it has xeno eggs on board and when it’s true recipient finds out about the alien outbreak it caused, she has no sympathy for his predicament. 19 years later on LV-426 at Hadley’s Hope, a xeno infestation is in its baby steps and the short film Birth gives us stunning detail of the gestation of a chest-burster in one of Hadley’s colonists.

Ripley stayed in stasis for 57 years before rescue by her employer but, whilst out for the count, moon LV-426 has become a terraforming colony named Hadley’s Hope. Ripley shakes off her grogginess from decades of hypersleep but the nightmares of her ordeal aboard Nostromo are harder to shake off. What is worse, Weyland-Yutani are sceptical about her story but everything changes once they lose contact with the terraforming colony on LV-426. Now, in Aliens, Ripley must face the xenomorph species again. She agrees to head back with a unit of rowdy colonial marines, complete with their own ‘android’ human. The presence of this synthetic seems to Ripley an ominous sign, but given the audience’s expectations, we should expect the unexpected. It’s ever more clear the real villain is Weyland-Yutani. On LV-426, the band of hubristic marines gets slaughtered and Ripley has to face off with the alien-queen in order to save the life of ‘Newt’ – the colony’s only survivor. We see in Aliens that xenomorphs are not so primal; they have tactical intelligence and the alien-queen, in her care for her brood, seems almost sentient.

AVP Chapter 20

FeaturesTime Period
Alien 3 

Alien: Harvest

Alien: Ore 
C.2179 

In Alien 3 shortly after the events of Aliens, Ripley survives crashing onto planet Fiorina in an escape pod, except Fiorina hosts a foundry and maximum-security correctional facility called ‘Fury’ 161’ which is inhabited by violent, max-security male inmates who haven’t seen a woman for years. Another teeny-weeny problem is that a facehugger came along for the ride and gestates a chestburster in a bovine (or dog, depending on the film version you watch). This creates a new kind of xeno – a ‘Runner’; smaller but much faster than other xenomorphs and just as deadly. The question is, can the twitchy inhabitants of Fiorina 161 survive long enough for the rescue party to reach them? Does Weyland-Yutani even want to rescue them or just capture a xenomorph specimen, better still an Alien-queen gestating in one of the main characters? “You’ve been in my life so long, I can’t remember anything else.” growls Ripley, as she confronts the xenomorph that ominously has no interest in harming our jaded heroine.

Away from Fiorina 161 in Harvest, terrified survivors of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach their emergency evacuation shuttle but a creature in the shadows stalks them. The greatest threat, however, might be in plain sight. Meanwhile in Ore, a hard-working miner of a mining colony longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren. When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances the lady is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and fighting a xenomorph so her family can live. 

AVP Chapter 21

FeaturesTime Period
Alien: Containment

Alien: Alone

Alien Resurrection
C.2381 

Transfer ship ‘Borrowdale,’ with over 20,000 souls in stasis, gets destructed by its desperate crewmembers after an xeno rampage; just four survivors escape. In the escape pod, as they piece together the details around the outbreak, they’re unsure whether all of them are uninfected themselves. All this, in Containment.

In Alone, an abandoned synthetic tries to keep her ship and herself alive. She comes across a facehugger and in the absence of human charges, it is her only companion. If and when humans ever come back for her, it’s hard to say where her loyalties will stand.

To give audiences something new in the Alien franchise, Alien Resurrection was offered up as the most outlandish and final film of the series. It’s now over 200 years after the events of Alien 3. Weyland-Yutani went under decades ago (bought out by Walmart) but the quest for scientific mastery over the xenomorph species has only advanced. Scientists aboard a US military medical research vessel create a clone of Ripley but with xenomorph DNA also so that it can birth an alien-queen that will be able to reproduce with a uterus rather than by laying eggs to eventually birth a half-human-half-xenomorph creature. Because that will be good, for some reason. The demented scientists also have xenomorphs locked up, thinking they can contain them. Of course this is not the case. The aliens escape to cause pandemonium. The film plays out with Ripley and some mercenaries trying to escape the stricken craft before it crashes into Earth.

Coming soon…

AVP Chapter 22

FeaturesTime Period

Predator: Badlands
< 2381 

A young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

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