We’re still shook at the complete madness director Fede Alvarez unleashes at the end of Alien: Romulus. Just when you think it’s going to be your basic humans versus aliens movie, he takes things up a notch with a finale that might not work for everyone, but is unforgettable nevertheless. Let’s dig into what happens, what it might mean, how we got there, and all that spoilery stuff.

Let’s Talk About the Ending of Alien: Romulus

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Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus is now in theaters, and we're breaking down some of the movie's biggest moments and surprises - including what might be one of the most gruesome, intense, and flat out insane endings of the entire franchise. Major spoilers follow. After losing half of the Corbelan's crew...

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How and where does 'Alien Romulus fit in with the larger Alien movie franchise? Here's everything you need to know!

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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment. Alien: Romulus marks a turning point in the Alien series. It’s not where the series begins to tumble irrevocably downhill, because it’s already settled into a rollercoaster with plenty of peaks, hairpin turns, and, thus far, just one steep drop. (We’ll get to that later.) It’s not where it becomes either a multi-filmmaker or single-filmmaker franchise, because it’s been both of those already, in some cases multiple times. It’s not even a pivot point in the series’ fictional timeline, because it’s positioned comfortably, perhaps over-safely, in the zone somewhere between Ellen Ripley going into cryo-sleep at the end of Alien and waking up at the beginning of Aliens. But speaking of Ripley: Romulus is the point where, technically speaking, there are more Alien movies without Ellen Ripley than with her. It marks Alien’s surrender into true franchise-dom.

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With "Alien: Romulus" calling back to movies like the original "Alien" and "Aliens," there are plenty of details you might miss watching it for the first time.

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Alien: Romulus raised the stakes by reintroducing the Xenomorphs in a thrilling horror plot that pays tribute to the franchise's greatest hits. Directed by Fede Alvarez (Don't Breathe), it follows six young space colonizers who encounter the Xenomorphs while trying to steal highly regulated equipment aboard an abandoned space station drifting in space.

Alien Romulus: Ending Explained & Biggest Spoilers from Plot

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Alien: Romulus is Ready Player One for the Alien universe

Fede Álvarez may have been the perfect director to refresh the Alien film franchise. His movie Alien: Romulus is incredibly well shot, with the camera slinking...

Alien: Romulus is Ready Player One for the Alien universe

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