Summary
- Alien: Romulus returns to the franchise’s chilling horror roots with disturbing sequences.
- Director Fede Álvarez presents new xenomorph creations in a gory body horror style.
- Characters face gruesome deaths and terrifying encounters with xenomorphs.
Extraterrestrial: Romulus take the Foreign franchise returns to its creepy horror roots, and has some truly disgusting and disturbing sequences that put it back into that genre territory. Set during the time jump between Foreign and Extraterrestrials, Extraterrestrial: Romulus In this film, a group of young space miners inspect an abandoned space station in hopes of finding some key equipment that will help them escape to a brighter future (literally). But once they climb aboard the station, they are horrified to discover that they have much more to fear than the lack of sunlight.
Director Fede Álvarez does not limit himself to taking the Foreign The series returns to its horror roots; specifically, it takes it back to its body horror roots. It took the iconic chest-burster scene from Ridley Scott’s original film. Foreign and somehow managed to make it even bloodier. It introduces a new addition to the Xenomorph family, one of the franchise’s creepiest creations to date. Extraterrestrial: Romulus It has many moments that are just as disgusting as the facehugger from the first film.
10 The crew pulls the Facehugger out of Navarro’s throat
After Navarro is attacked by a facehugger that quickly latches onto her head, Bjorn attempts to electrocute it, like he did with the facehugger that attacked Tyler. But Andy warns him that electrocuting the facehugger will kill Navarro, because its tail is wrapped around her neck and will tighten and strangle her. Instead, they decide to freeze the facehugger, loosening its grip and allowing them to pull it off Navarro’s face (the tragic irony is that the chestburster has already been planted, so any rescue attempts are futile).
The facehugger tentacle is removed from Navarro, but they have to pull it completely out of his throat. The extended shot of the facehugger tentacle being ripped out of Navarro’s throat may be too much for squeamish viewers, as it elicits quite a visceral reaction.
9 Kay injects herself with xenomorphic DNA
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The most important MacGuffin of Extraterrestrial: Romulus is the black goo that Rook wants Andy to bring back to the colony. It’s a pure form of Xenomorph DNA that the Romulus crew managed to extract from the creature before they were wiped out. When Kay appears to be dying, Tyler tries to inject her with the goo in a last-ditch attempt to save her, but Rain convinces him to wait.
Later, when Kay is in unbearable pain and is willing to do whatever it takes to stop it, she decides to inject herself with the xenomorph DNA. The black lines that begin to run through her veins are an immediate sign that this was a bad idea. The horrific consequences of Kay injecting xenomorph DNA into her pregnant body will be revealed in the film’s astonishing climax.
8. Tyler is killed by xenomorphs
No one is safe in a Foreign Movie. Just as Tyler is beginning to rekindle his romance with Rain and it seems like they might have a bright future together, he is killed by the Xenomorphs. As they infiltrate the aliens’ nest and attempt to sneak to the other side, Tyler is grabbed by a Xenomorph’s tail and taken to the hive, where several other Xenomorphs are waiting to feast on him.
Alvarez does a great job of building suspense in this scene, because the xenomorphs don’t attack right away. They survey their prey for a few seconds before finally pouncing. And when they do, it’s appropriately bloody. Similar to Parker’s death in the original film, a xenomorph punctures Tyler’s eye with its mini mouth. Tyler’s bloody death emphasizes just how dangerous the xenomorphs are.
7 A xenomorph stalks Kay
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Xenomorphs have always been terrifying creatures, but Extraterrestrial: Romulus It manages to make them even scarier by making them intelligent. The xenomorphs in this movie use cunning tactics to stalk their prey. They don’t just attack without thinking when a frightened human is in front of them; they strategize. This is demonstrated when Kay is trapped in a room with a xenomorph. As Kay desperately begs Andy to open the door and let her out, the xenomorph stalking her simply sits behind her and waits patiently.
Andy refuses to open the door, because that’s what the creature is waiting for them to do. Instead of killing Kay now, the xenomorph is waiting for his friends to open the door so it can gang up on them. Usually, there’s safety in numbers, but not when there’s a bloodthirsty xenomorph nearby.
6 Rain and Tyler rescue Kay from the Xenomorph nest
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After Kay is taken by the xenomorph that has been stalking her, it appears that she is dead. But when Andy takes Rain and Tyler to the Lion’s Den (the xenomorph hive aboard Romulus Station), they are delighted to discover that Kay is still alive. She has been assimilated into the nest with a group of other xenomorph victims. She is in pretty bad shape, but she is not dead yet. This scene is reminiscent of the sequence from Extraterrestrials in which Ripley saved Newt from a similar nesting situation.
When Rain and Tyler get Kay out of the nest, it’s not necessarily scary, but it is gross. They have to dig through a bunch of disgusting dirt and grime to free Kay from the hive. There’s more drool in this scene than at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.
5 There is something in the water
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Although Extraterrestrial Resurrection It is widely regarded as one of the worst Foreign As for the movies, it does have a spectacular underwater sequence. As the crew has to swim from one flooded part of the ship to another, the xenomorphs swim after them with the grace of an Olympic athlete. This terrifying underwater sequence, which combines the intergalactic terror of the Foreign franchise with the aquatic terror of the Jaws franchise, receives a creepy homage in Extraterrestrial: Romulus.
When Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy find extra cryogenic fuel in a flooded room, they become trapped there. And then they accidentally awaken a swarm of facehuggers eager to implant baby xenomorphs into them. The ankle-deep water renders the creatures virtually invisible as they sneak up on their prey and attempt to pounce. The room’s blood-red lighting makes this sequence even creepier.
4 Kay gives birth to “The Offspring”
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Extraterrestrial: Romulus It has plenty of the familiar xenomorphs, but it also introduces a terrifying new creature to the franchise’s rogues gallery: “The Offspring.” After Kay injects herself with xenomorph DNA, it transforms her unborn baby into an unholy hybrid of human and xenomorph. Just as Rain is placing Kay into the cryosleep chamber for a nice, relaxing ride home, Kay’s vitals begin to increase as The Offspring begins to crawl out of it.
The chest bursts were bad enough, but the birth of the offspring is a gory mix of chest bursts and normal human childbirth. A gush of blood spurts between Kay’s legs and a slimy egg sac slides out of her. This is a truly gruesome moment of body horror that is sure to make any faint-hearted viewer tense up and recoil in disgust.
3 Bjorn is burned alive by acidic blood
He Foreign The sequels have mostly ignored the fact that Xenomorphs have acidic blood. In the first film, one drop of that blood could doom the entire crew by dripping through the hull. But the sequels have limited the action of the acidic blood to a couple of burns. Extraterrestrial: Romulus brings back the full-time threat of acidic blood as it prevents Rain from shooting the xenomorphs on the lowest floor of the station, presenting another obstacle in the path of survival.
Bjorn falls victim to the acidic blood when some of it splashes on him and he is quickly burned alive. Anything he does to try and stop it only makes the acid burn his skin faster. It’s a terribly drawn-out scene that doesn’t stop for what seems like an eternity.
2 The offspring devours Kay
One of the coolest ideas in Extraterrestrial: Romulus The Xenomorphs become even more ruthless after merging with human DNA. The Xenomorphs on their own are the perfect killing machines, but humanity’s corruptible free will made them even more monstrous. When the offspring raises its terrifying head, it instantly slashes Andy’s throat with its claws before aiming for its own mother.
The Offspring approaches Kay and seems to recognize its familial connection to her as it inspects her face from an inch away. Kay, petrified, tries to push the Offspring away, but it continues to study her before finally devouring her. This scene is as disturbing as the controversial tentacle kiss from the HBO series. The last of us;takes an intimate act and gives it a horrifying twist.
1 Navarro’s chest-buster
The chest buster is a staple of the Foreign franchise, but it’s been hard to give the sequels the same shock value, because audiences already know what’s coming. The original chestburster was so iconic because audiences were as shocked as Kane when a baby xenomorph burst through his chest. None of the subsequent chestbursters have had the same impact. But Extraterrestrial: Romulus‘ chestburster is coming, because Alvarez increased the blood.
Alvarez managed to do Extraterrestrial: Romulus‘ chestburster is even more gruesome than Scott’s. He keeps the fear going longer, because the facehugger’s latest victim, Navarro, has an X-ray gun that allows her to see inside his chest. She sees the xenomorph trying to fight its way out long before it actually hatches. Isabela Merced sells Kay’s terror as she frantically tries to help her friend, making the sequence feel even more real.