“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

The xenomorphs are the iconic mascots of the Alien franchise, with good reason. The creature designs by H.R. Giger are legendary in their ability to unnerve us: the elongated eyeless head, the black ...

Thursday’s trailer includes several haunting shots of violence and destruction on the crashed spaceship, including evidence that the humans on board were attacked by facehuggers. That’s about what ...