Alien: Ripley’s Story From Beginning to End

The unfortunate habit of most horror franchises is that every sequel shifts focus away from the heroes and onto the villains. Jason Voorhees is barely in Friday the 13th, but by the fourth entry, he’s the protagonist. Alien is a movie about a bunch of space truckers encountering an unstoppable monster. Ellen Ripley becomes the lone survivor, but she’s so much more than the woman who put down the Xenomorph.