SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for "Elio," now playing in theaters. Disney Pixar's latest animated feature, "Elio" centers on a young orphan boy who is desperate to be abducted by aliens.

You just can’t keep a good Xenomorph down, can you? Last year brought the return of cinema’s scariest extraterrestrial franchise in Alien: Romulus – set between the events of Alien and Aliens. But ...

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 ...