Sentences with phrase «alien creatures called»

General Cypher Raige (Smith pere) is the legendary head of the Ranger Corps, a military unit tasked with combating alien creatures called «ursas»: H. R. Giger - y monstrosities that have no eyes but can (literally) smell fear.

The Resistance series is set an alternative version of Earth in the 1950s, where a bunch of alien creatures called the Chimera have invaded.

Not exact matches

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original Alien film and its sequel Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of creatures for the human characters to contend with.

While that franchise has moved on without her — most recently to the upcoming Alien: Covenant — Weaver is bringing her powerful onscreen presence to a different kind of creature feature with A Monster Calls.

The malefactor prompting J's derring - do is a snarling, multi-clawed creature called Boris (Jemaine Clement, pictured right) who needs to be routed before he can alter the course of alien - bashing history.

Now the aliens (ant - like creatures called «Formics») are coming back, and the only apparent way to defeat them, at least according to Colonel Graff (an appropriately gruff Harrison Ford), is to train young minds — more receptive to technological and strategic innovation, apparently — in the art of space combat.

The movie begins with a plot involving some military types attempting to train Aliens to do their bidding, but once the creatures break free, it is once again Ripley and a ragtag crew (this time a bunch of interstellar smugglers, including tough waif Call, played by a game Winona Ryder) trying to exterminate them.

The island's creatures include spiders, water buffalo and what you might call «Alien» - looking secretaries of the interior, who give the mighty but melancholy Kong his daily workout.

It's because the «monsters» called out to fight the alien (the voice of Rainn Wilson: Juno, The Last Mimzy) so wonderfully upend the paranoia inherent in the genre being sent up that the movie becomes a whole new creature.

Originally called Under a Riven Sky, the game was going to be a trilogy based on secret societies, the end of the world, and an enigmatic race of creatures so advanced as to appear to be alien to the player.