The nightmarish xenomorph, with its piston-like inner jaw and blood that could melt your face off, might be the “perfect organism” as succinctly described in the original Alien movie, but that hasn’t stopped subsequent franchise installments from attempting to one-up it on the horror scale.

We’ve gotten the acid-spitting “dragon” (alien that spawns out of a dog), the “predalien” (alien that spawns out of a well, predator), and last year’s Alien: Romulus even gave us the creepy “offspring”, the towering, lanky humanoid result of a foetus exposed to an alien pathogen.

While the xenomorph reappears in Alien: Earth, the sci-fi horror series goes much smaller in terms of creature design for the rest of its menagerie. And that’s precisely what makes them so unnerving.

Rather than the vast,

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