No horror movie this year is more feverishly anticipated than Alien: Romulus. Taking equal inspiration from Ridley Scott’s seminal, slow-burn chiller and James Cameron’s masterfully muscular sequel, Romulus is synthesising Alien and Aliens into one perfect cinematic organism, while adding fresh ideas and fresh blood all of its own.
Set predominantly aboard the abandoned Weyland-Yutani research station the Renaissance, and some two decades after the destruction of the Nostromo in Alien, Romulus sees a young crew of scavengers in search of a way out and a brighter future, only to find the perfect killing machine instead. Civil War’s Cailee Spaeny heads up the cast as Rain Carradine, alongside her synthetic ‘brother’ Andy, played by Rye Lane star David Jonsson.
