In Beams, Mitchell Crawford blends experimental animation with stories of alien encounters. The narrators are never seen, and the images don’t always reflect their words, but somehow that makes these ...

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and he has created some truly chilling alien encounters.

Upcoming first-person adventure Alien: Isolation has seen much praise because of its tight focus; a single Xenomorph that stalks you on a seemingly-abandoned ship, fought off not with weapons but a ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...