Quite a bit of movie magic made "Alien" the sci-fi horror classic it is -- but one of its biggest challenges was solved with a simple low-tech tactic.

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"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth. The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies. Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes ...

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Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...