'Alien: Covenant' promises new scares, says film-maker Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott and his team had to decide whether to bring the Alien back or invent something else for this latest instalment, writes Susan Griffin

IN Alien’s terrifying Xenomorph, Ridley Scott believes he introduced “maybe the definitive monster in film history”.

“I can say that because I just spotted it but I didn’t [create it]. That was [surrealist] HR Giger,” says the 79-year-old film-maker, the man responsible for inducing nightmares with his depiction of chest-bursting aliens, but who doesn’t scare easily himself.