Watch the ALIEN series in order
How to watch the Alien movies the right way.
Those face-hugging, chest-bursting, xenomorphs keep coming back.
Whether you’re new to the “Alien” franchise or getting ready tp watch them all over again, here’s a video to help you keep track of them in the correct order. (Which might be more complicated than you expected.)
Of course, it all kicked off with the brilliant one-two punch of 1979’s creepy terror movie Alien and 1986’s action-packed shoot-em-up thriller Aliens.
The to-the-point-titled movie Alien is an outer space horror story set in the future, where the spaceship crew is attacked by (and, well, most of them killed by) extraterrestrials.
The they-just-pluraled-the-title sequel Aliens follows the sole survivor of the previous movie (apologies if that’s still a spoiler for you) as she and a bunch of armed soldiers deal with the invasion.
As two of the greatest extraterrestrial monster movies, Alien and Aliens also launched a whole brand. Since then, there have been movies, novels, comic books, games, spin-offs, crossovers, and more. (There was even a stage play—wait, what?)
Since the Alien movies now include more sequels, prequels, and even an, um, “midquel,” sometimes the timeline gets a little hard to follow…
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How to watch ALIEN movies in the right order
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