Alien 3 (1992)

Alien 3 (1992) is an American science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher and written by David Giler, Walter Hill, and Larry Ferguson, from a story by Vincent Ward. The movie encountered various challenges during production, such as filming without a script and the involvement of different screenwriters and directors. Fincher, who was making his feature directorial debut, stepped in to direct after Ward’s planned version was canceled before filming began. Continuing from the events of Aliens, an egg hatches on board the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, resulting in the release of a facehugger. A fire erupts and the ship’s computer launches an escape pod carrying Ellen Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop; all four are put into cryonic stasis. Upon landing on Fiorina ‘Fury’ 161 – a foundry turned maximum-security correctional facility housing male inmates with a predisposition for antisocial behavior – the pod is recovered along with its passengers.

As tension rises among the inmates, a facehugger makes its way towards inmate Thomas Murphy’s dog, Spike. Awakened by Clemens, the prison’s chief medical officer, Ripley learns that she is the sole survivor. According to the prison warden, Harold Andrews, her presence may cause disruption. Despite objections from warden Andrews and his assistant Aaron, Ripley insists on an autopsy for Newt and requests that her and Hicks’s bodies be cremated out of fear that Newt may be carrying an Alien embryo. The autopsy is carried out and reveals no signs of an embryo. The funeral takes place with spiritual leader Dillon delivering a speech before the deceased are cremated in the furnace. Meanwhile, in another area of the prison, a quadrupedal alien bursts from Spike.