‘Aliens’: Surprising Things You Never Knew About the Blockbuster Film 40 Years Later

Two angry mothers with a horrific amount of unfinished business? No, it’s not your last family Thanksgiving; it’s James Cameron‘s toweringly tense, violent, and shocking sequel to Ridley Scott‘s Alien. In the film that truly set Sigourney Weaver up for action hero stardom, she returns as Ripley, who, waking up after 57 years in stasis, agrees to go back to the planet LV-426 because corporate investors Weyland-Yutani lose contact with the colony of Hadley’s Hope.

Armed with a battalion of Marines, Ripley returns to the planet where the deadly creatures first wiped out her crew. During the mission, she discovers the corporation behind the operation has deceived her all along…