Romulus looks tense, bloody and awesome

The final couple of Alien films have been good for essentially the most half nevertheless it looks like they’ve been lacking the uncooked, skin-shredding rigidity of the primary few movies. The newest trailer for Alien: Romulus seems to be just like the sequence is headed again to its darkish, claustrophobic roots.

Alien: Romulus options a complete new crew of doomed space-trekking souls who encounter the lethal Xenomorph on a derelict spacecraft. This time, it’s a crew of area colonizers who’re scavenging for assets from deserted ships and stations.

This Alien movie was co-written and directed by Fede Alvarez, the filmmaker behind cult horror flicks comparable to the 2 Don’t Breathe films and the Evil Lifeless remake. So, sure, Alien: Romulus is gonna be very tense and really, very bloody. The place the unique Alien merely strapped a parasitoid xenomorph to a crew member’s face, the trailer for Romulus is prepared to indicate a facehugger penetrating some poor man’s head. Yikes.

Alien: Romulus hits theaters on Friday, Aug. 16.