Director: Fede Álvarez
A derelict space station drifting between the stars becomes a trap for a group of young colonists in Alien: Romulus, a film that pulls the franchise's oldest fears back into tight, claustrophobic focus.
What is Alien: Romulus about?
Rain Carradine and a small crew of fellow colonists, desperate to escape a life of endless labor on a mining outpost, sneak aboard a decommissioned station in hopes of stripping it for parts that could buy them a way out. What they find instead is a facility abandoned for reasons far worse than mechanical failure, still holding the remnants of experiments no one was meant to reopen. As systems flicker back to life and old horrors stir in the station's dark corridors, the group's plan for a quick salvage run collapses into a fight for survival with almost nowhere to run. Set between the events of the original two films in the series, the story leans on tight corridors, failing life support, and the creeping dread of discovering exactly what was left behind.
Cast & crew
Cailee Spaeny leads the cast as Rain, giving the character a hardened practicality that slowly cracks under pressure. David Jonsson brings unexpected warmth to Andy, an android caught between loyalty and self-preservation, while Archie Renaux and Isabela Merced round out the young crew whose choices in the station's tightest spaces drive much of the film's tension.
Context & significance
Directed by Fede Álvarez and released in 2024, Alien: Romulus was built as a mid-quel that revisits the series' industrial, working-class grit rather than chasing the scale of later entries. Álvarez, known for lean, practical-effects-driven horror, leans on physical sets and creature work over digital spectacle, which gives the film's confined station setting a tactile, lived-in menace that closely echoes the mood of the earliest films in the franchise.
Where & how to watch
Alien: Romulus streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking horror fans full access to its tense, claustrophobic set pieces. Watching the film requires logging into a free K-Time account, though this page is open to read without one. K-Time is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking viewers wherever they live.