Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...

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Few movies have left such a mark on the sci-fi landscape as Alien and its sequels — and who knows what might have happened had these deleted scenes never hit the cutting room floor?