For many tuning in to Alien: Earth when it premiered last month, the main draw was another opportunity to see the terrifying oblong-headed creature that we’ve been watching terrorize spaceships and defeat Predators since it was introduced in the original 1979 film. But as the show winds to a close, there is another alien threatening to steal the show right out from under its nose. Do Xenomorphs even have noses? Well, then it’s being stolen right out from under its retracting proboscis, which is actually just another drooling head that lives in its mouth.
Yes, I’m talking about the Eyeball, the seventh-grade horror fan’s notebook doodle come to CGI life, which is being held on Boy Kavalier’s island with the rest of Weyland-Yutani’s intergalactic spoils. While there are many new creat