Best Alien Kills In Movies

Part machine, part organic alien lifeform, 100% about sucking human brains out of their skulls.

On the run from an alien craft, the Skyline posse loses one of their own, a particularly slow lady who fails to outrun a couple gangly tentacles. It's all that pleather -- doesn't have the same flexibility as real leather.

The space furballs with attitude stick it to Hallmark holidays and American faith by attacking Christianity's most important symbol: the Easter Bunny. Jumping through his bum flap, the Critters rip at the dude from inside the suit, eventually causing him to jump through a church's stained glass window. Metaphor!

By the time X-Files: Fight the Future hit theaters the only aliens in the picture were the non-fans completely alienated by the overarching mythology. Black oil? Yeah...I remember that from the show...it was...bad?

Yes, it was bad, and unfortunately for a twelve-year-old kid who stumbled into a 10,000 year old cave, the extrateresstrial goo went bad all over his face.

Amazingly, not a single prawn kills a human during District 9 (at least on screen). But when the mutated Wikus mans one of the mech exoskeletons, he is nothing less than alien. Armed with body erupting guns and armor that could withstand a tank blast, Wikus goes on an all out killing spree to protect his friend Chris Johnson, including using a poor little piggy as a bullet against an irksome MNU gunman.

The last shot of Cloverfield is all the evidence I needed to close-mindedly conclude that the monster who attacks New York and infests the city with its explosive symbiotes is from outer space. Because being a sea creature disturbed from its fathomless, underwater resting place is simply not as cool. Fact.

Now that we have all that cleared up, we can enjoy the extraterrestrial mayhem caused by those little buggers on the beautiful Beth. One bite from a subway creature and within hours, she inflates and blows. OK, that may have just been an NYC rat.

Carl Weathers in Predator is one of several definitions of machismo. When you're acting like a total badass and '80s-era Schwarzenegger is in the room, you're obviously doing something right.

That said, never before has there been such a blood-curdling reaction to an injury sustained while fighting aliens as Weathers' yelp unleashed after his left arm is blown off by a Predator. One minute he's howling like a werewolf at the moon. The next, he's perfectly calm. More impressive than the Predator's actual kill.

When Jabba sends cocky Jedi Luke Skywalker falling to his doom into the Rancor pit, it's a faithful guard who gets the worst end of the monster's wrath. Two steps outside the door and the Rancor is chomping in to the Gamorrean. Every arena fight goes better with a first course of bacon.

Michael Ironside gave them fair warning, but a few soldiers in one of Starship Troopers' big bug battle didn't get the memo. A fleet of flying insects made their way past the machine guns enough to slice through the skulls off the unlucky batallion. Don't worry, they weren't getting ahead in life anyway. HAR!

Here's a clear sign the human you're operating on is not in fact your friend, but an alien lifeform replicating him: a sharp set of teeth coming out of his abdomen. Dead giveaway, and dead friend.