When you think of science fiction , you think of . Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic single-handedly revitalised its genre after decades of B movie rubbish, while the design of its jet-black antagonist has permeated pop culture for more than four decades. To celebrate the legacy of sci-fi’s freakiest creation, ’s ranked all nine films so far from worst to best, from the game-changing original to Scott's own, controversial prequels over three decades later and the most recent entry into the franchise, .
You can watch the first eight movies online via . “A series of moving pictures, usually shown in a cinema or on television and often telling a story.” According to the dictionary definition, isn’t even a film.
Its lighting is so uniformly black that it’s impossible to distinguish any moving image, and, even if anyone could, the action is shot so tightly and with such jarring cuts that it’d still disorientate. Then there’s the story. What story? The “Predalien” from the first breaks out into civilisation, a Predator comes to prevent it from murdering the local populace of horny teenagers and then both get nuked.
The end. What a waste of time in every conceivable sense. The fourth entry in the original series was greenlit to both capitalise on and remedy the errors of .
The franchise’s ostensibly “final” film made money ($160 million against a $60 million budget), but left many a fan apoplectic at its ending. lives up to its title by literally reviving prota.