Alien: Covenant, film review: Return of an interstellar terror
Ridley Scott’s latest addition to the sci-fi horror franchise looks dazzling but are his iconic space monsters as scary this time around?
Friday 12 May 2017
In the confined space of the Odeon Leicester Square, everyone can hear you scream. But only if you scream.
At the world premiere of Alien: Covenant, no one screamed. No one so much as gasped. And no one was at risk of yielding sphincter control.
One wouldn’t ordinarily mention that latter point on obvious gross-out grounds but, if you’ll allow me the playground defence, Ridley Scott started it. The 79-year-old director stated his intent as being “to scare the s*** out of people”.