
Alien: Covenant (Feminist Film Reviews)
Jul 10, 2017 · 4 min read
Every complaint that horror films reduce female characters to slutty victim zeroes and final girls is tempered by one striking cinematic offering: Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). After four films (almost five), Ripley’s role as the quintessential human female badass is solidified. She is not supernatural or genetically modified (well, until Resurrection), she is not tokenized, she is not a stock hero who happens to be…


