Herb has bought the drive-in movie theatre on the edge of town ... Just the stuff of ordinary life except for one thing: aliens have landed on the moon. They are watching earth and earthlings.

57 years after Ellen Ripley had a close encounter with the reptilian alien creature from the first movie, she is called ... taken over a space colony on the moon LV-426. When the colonial marines ...

But what should really be remembered about “Alien” is what a slow burn of a great movie it is ... They pick up a distress signal from a moon and land on the small planet.