The following contains spoilers for "Alien: Earth" season 1, episode 5, "In Space, No One..."

The Xenomorph is a perfect organism. An apex predator, the icon of the "Alien" franchise is naturally the single best movie monster of all time , as we've argued here before at /Film. The creature's psychosexual design by H.R. Giger and the way it kills its prey, combined with its horrific life-cycle, makes the Xenomorph scary beyond words. And though we've seen several variants of the Xenomorph in the "Aliens" films by now, including hordes of them moving together in "Aliens" and the "Alien vs. Predator" films, the property has yet to recapture the fear factor of a single original-recipe Xenomorph terrorizing a human crew in an enclosed space in Ridley Scott's original "Alien."

Indeed,

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