“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

For years, I firmly believed that there were no bad "Alien" movies (I am, of course, excluding the dreadful "Alien vs. Predator" films, which simply don't count). Ridley Scott's original "Alien" is a ...