If you're someone who enjoys watching gore and horror, the Alien series is something that was literally hand-crafted for you. This franchise has been going for quite some time and has given us eight films in total with one more on the way. Some of these movies were phenomenal but some were not so good. Now that Alien Romulus is coming, it's time to start watching Alien movies to familiarize yourself with the franchise. Here's how to view the Alien movies in order in both release date and chronological order.

Alien vs. Released in 2004, Predator takes place in the same year and takes us to a crew led by Charles Bishop Weyland trying to investigate a heat signature they found buried in the ice beneath Bouvetøya, an island off the coast of Antarctica. But their expedition ends horribly when they unleash the constant battle between the Xenomorphs and three Hunter Predators.

But this movie ruins the timeline and origins of the Xenomorphs set by the Aliens movies as a flashback also shows us that the Aliens and Predators have been at war with each other for a huge amount of time, basically since before the dawn of human civilization.

Although released in 2007, Alien vs Predator: Requiem is set in 2004 and picks up right where the first Alien vs Predator film left off. There are two versions of the film where the extended one is slightly better than the original cut.