Aliens

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

Cameron's follow-up to Ridley Scott's original landed as a rare sequel critics felt could stand alongside — and for some surpassed — its predecessor, shifting register from slow-burn horror to relentless action spectacle without losing its grip. Sigourney Weaver's performance was the one thing almost everyone agreed on; the debate was whether the film's sheer, exhausting intensity was a feature or a flaw.