The monstrous moment takes place at the halfway point of Alien, signaling the film’s shift from suspenseful sci-fi thriller into full nightmare mode. Earlier in the story, the seven-person crew of the ...

Ripley manages to contain the threat while discovering that she was incubating a Queen Chestburster for the whole movie, causing her to sacrifice herself at the last moment in a moment of intense ...

Their plan is to grow a clone of Ripley (which in the movie is called Ripley 8, after seven failed attempts) and remove the Queen Chestburster from her sternum to grow and study it. They do manage to ...