"Alien: Romulus" is currently terrifying moviegoers nationwide, but one scene in particular was too scary for even the cast to sit through it. Now that the movie's finally out in theaters, we've got some clues as to which scene it was.
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00:00Alien Romulus is currently terrifying moviegoers nationwide, but one scene in particular was
00:05too scary for even the cast to sit through it.
00:08Now that the movie's finally out in theaters, we've got some clues as to which scene it
00:12was.
00:13Back in February 2024, before fans had even gotten a teaser trailer peek at director Fede
00:17Alvarez's new take on the Alien franchise, star Isabella Merced offered some tantalizing
00:22clues about what Alien Romulus might show viewers.
00:25While promoting Madame Web in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Merced emphasized
00:29that a scene in the new Alien film was so gruesome the entire cast struggled to get
00:34through watching it.
00:35She said,
00:36"'There's a scene that I'm in, and they all had to turn away.
00:38Not one person stayed looking at that iPad because it was so disgusting.
00:41I was so excited.'"
00:43And while Merced didn't specify which scene in particular won the Grossest Scene Award
00:48from the cast, her excitement at being featured in it gives us some leads.
00:51There are two scenes in Alien Romulus that Merced appears in and are nasty enough to
00:55be the moment she alluded to.
00:57The first scene takes place fairly early on in the film, as Merced's character Kay,
01:01Bjorn, and Navarro attempt to escape from the Romulus and Remus spacecraft.
01:05Unfortunately, Navarro's already been attacked by a facehugger, and unbeknownst to the crew
01:10of the Korbelin, she's been implanted by a baby xenomorph.
01:13In a horrifying sequence, Navarro uses a handheld X-ray to actually see the baby alien start
01:19to burst its way through her body just before it actually does.
01:22Merced's Kay is forced to watch as the pilot's body splits open, and the familiar baby alien
01:27bursts out just like in the original film.
01:30But while that scene certainly has the grossed-out potential to have put off the cast, its similarity
01:34to one of the most iconic scenes in the Alien franchise makes us think that it's actually
01:38a later scene that really horrified everyone involved with this sequel.
01:42After getting terribly wounded earlier in the film by a full-grown xenomorph, Kay manages
01:46to crawl her way back to the Korbelin in the hopes of activating a cryopod to keep her
01:51and her unborn baby in stasis long enough to seek medical attention.
01:55Unfortunately, Kay makes a disastrous decision to inject herself with a vial of experimental
01:59goo meant to turn humans into the ultimate lifeform in a last-ditch effort to keep herself
02:04alive.
02:05And while the goo, last seen in Prometheus and Alien Covenant, does keep Kay alive and
02:09well long enough for the surviving crew members to join her on the Korbelin, it has a disturbing
02:13effect on her pregnancy.
02:15After getting put in a cryopod by Rain and Andy, Kay starts to give birth.
02:19But instead of a healthy human baby, what comes out looks more like a cross between
02:23the classic xenomorph and the Engineers seen in Scott's prequel series.
02:27The creature, called the Offspring in the credits of the film, quickly incapacitates
02:31Andy and corners Kay in order to suck all the strange goo oozing out of her body.
02:35By the time Rain stumbles onto the scene, Kay is dead, and she's left alone to deal
02:39with one of the scariest alien hybrids we've seen in the entire franchise.
02:44Speaking to Variety about the creature, Alvarez mentioned that his goal was to pay homage
02:48to past installments while still injecting something new into the franchise.
02:52He said,
02:53"[The new issue is the root of the whole thing that was introduced in Prometheus.
02:56It's the root of all life.
02:57But also, particularly, the xenomorphs come out of that thing, which means it has to be
03:01inside them.
03:02It's probably a new species, because that mix never happened before."
03:06Whether it's a new creature or not, it's certainly a new spin on the classic alien design, and
03:15one that's been disturbing viewers since the film's premiere.
03:17And while Merced hasn't circled back since the film's premiere to confirm that this is
03:21the scene in question, that's where we're putting our money.
03:24You can see if you've got a stronger stomach than the Alien Romulus cast for yourself by
03:28checking out the film in theaters now.