Ready For An "Alien" Marathon? Here's Your Ultimate Guide To Watching All 9 Movies In Order

We've been fortunate to experience more than 40 years of Xenomorphs, Chestbursters, and Facehuggers, and the Alien franchise continues to thrive.

The latest film in the franchise, Alien: Romulus , is out, and the aliens are back and better than ever!

Believe it or not, there are only nine films in this widely regarded sci-fi horror series. Audiences still resonate with it because of the strong characters, intriguing premises, monstrous aliens, frightening kill sequences, and epic storytelling.

For ease, I've put the movies in chronological order and included some interesting facts about the franchise:

1. AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

Alien Franchise Fact: The character of Ripley was originally written to be a male character.

2. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)

Alien Franchise Fact: The Alien prop head the actor wore was five pounds !

3. Prometheus (2012)

Alien Franchise Fact: Ridley Scott was the fifth choice to be Alien 's director.

4. Alien: Covenant (2017)

Alien Franchise Fact: Star Wars was a heavy influence on Prometheus.

5. Alien (1979)

Alien Franchise Fact: The Alien chest-burster scene was shot with multiple cameras because Ridley Scott could only perform the full effect once since it was very "bloody," and they couldn't keep cleaning it up.

6. Alien: Romulus (2024)

Alien Franchise Fact: The screenplay for Alien was originally called Dark Star .

7. Aliens (1986)

Alien Franchise Fact: Ridley Scott wanted to take the audience to the edge of stress, similar to The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

8. Alien 3 (1992)

Alien Franchise Fact: Conor O’Sullivan , the creature design supervisor on the film, and Ridley Scott built different Xenomorph versions to use on set, ranging from six and a half to nine feet tall.

9. Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Have you watched all the Alien movies? Let me know in the comments!