From The Thing to Blade Runner, Aliens to Tron, these ’80s sci-fi classics prove practical effects can still outshine modern ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

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The 24-year-old actor — who plays one of the show's two adult Xenomorphs — had to film a fight scene with the CGI-generated creature, but he wasn't left completely in the dark. The Alien: Earth ...

And, far more often than not, fans have taken to those big swings. It very easily could have gone a different way with the introduction of the aforementioned cybernetic humans and the substantial ...

CGI can build entire planets now, but bigger does not always mean better. Some older movies still look incredible because their effects had texture and real-world messiness baked in. Models, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...