'Alien: Romulus' review: Fan Service Summer continues

A confession: Long before Alien: Romulus, I've not been much for Fede Álvarez's brand of horror. His reboot of Evil Dead was so grisly that I saw a colleague who deeply loves a good scary movie flee the theater in revulsion. His Texas Chainsaw Massacre was likewise dripping with buckets of blood and viscera, as was his 2016 original thriller Don't Breathe. It's not the gore alone that put me off, but more how it heightened a bleakness so intense it might well steal your breath. It seems h