This gallery examines the pivotal ceiling ambush scene in James Cameron’s 1986 film *Aliens*. It traces the sequence from the aftermath of a facehugger attack through the power outage, motion tracker ...

Do you remember when they said that in space, no one could hear you scream? The tagline for the cult classic Alien movie has, in a way, become a tagline for the whole subgenre of science-fiction, at ...

Science fiction has always been fascinated with monsters. Sometimes they serve as symbols for deeper themes; other times they're simply badass and scary. The best of these creatures tap into something ...

Horror icons linger because their rules make sense inside the nightmare. Some stalk familiar neighborhoods, others ride along with cursed objects, and a few move through dreams or stories that people ...