If Álvarez’s goal was to bring a nostalgic touch to his movie, he definitely nailed it, and with great skill, by adding the chestburster scene ... of the movie. Alien: Romulus is available ...

Then again, maybe there’s an extra layer of dark subtext to those misbegotten scenes and that horrendous digital puppet. Romulus, like almost all of the Alien movies, is really about the horror ...