Immediately following the events of Aliens , a fire aboard the spacecraft Sulaco causes an escape pod to crash-land on , a desolate refinery and "blast furnace" inhabited by a colony of male inmates with a "Double-Y" chromosome mutation.
In 2003, a significantly different version was released. While not a "Director's Cut," it restores over 30 minutes of footage, changes the Alien's host, and is widely considered by critics at Rotten Tomatoes and fans to be a superior, more coherent version of the story. 4. Technical Achievements AlienВі (1992)
The inmates have formed a fundamentalist religious cult, viewing the Alien as a "beast" sent to test or punish them. Immediately following the events of Aliens , a
Ellen Ripley is the sole survivor of the crash, as Newt and Corporal Hicks are killed in the impact. Unknown to Ripley, an Alien facehugger survived the journey. The creature gestates within an animal (a dog in the theatrical cut, an ox in the assembly cut), giving birth to a "Runner" Alien that begins picking off the unarmed prisoners in the labyrinthine facility. Unknown to Ripley, an Alien facehugger survived the journey