Even in an age of special effects that are this close to hopping over the uncanny valley, practical effects still managed to trump whatever a computer can generate. It’s not hard to see why: It’s cheaper, far more ingenious and while it still does look fake, it looks less fake than anything you’d see rendered out of a special effects studio. That's the route that team for Alien: Covenant when it came time to make the blood flow.

Ridley Scott quashes the idea that District 9 creator Neil Blomkamp will helm an Alien 5. Apparently because Fox studies doesn't want it.

Wondering whatever happened to David and Shaw after they hijacked an alien ship and decided to head out on a galactic roadtrip to the homeworld of the Engineers at the end of Prometheus? We finally know the answer now.

These new pictures from the upcoming Alien: Covenant ask more questions than they answer. Questions that we might not like the answers to.

We all want to see our feared Xenomorphs on the big screen in the new Alien: Covenant film, but we are likely also getting a whole lot of engineers as well.

Get introduced to a new character from the Alien: covenant film as we also discover some other potential plot spoilers behind the movie.

It seems fans are not the only ones excited for the new Alien film, as even the director, Ridley Scott, is keen to get going on making another one.

The beast is indeed back in Alien: Covenant, only this time evolution has taken a few steps further to the look and feel of the original nightmare fuel creature as the latest strain of hostile perfection goes from Neomorph through to the final Xenomorph design.