The competition for the year’s most memorable popcorn bucket continues to heat up, with Alien: Romulus now teasing its own addition to the race. Waves were made earlier this year when the sandworm-themed popcorn bucket for Dune: Part Two became a viral sensation thanks to its unintended sexual connotations. Not to be outdone, however, Ryan Reynolds promised to raise the bar with Deadpool and Wolverine‘s own popcorn bucket, and the finished product shaped as Wolverine’s face did not disappoint.

Now, AMC Theaters have teased their new Alien: Romulus popcorn bucket via Instagram. Check out their post below:

Steering away from the more overtly adult themes of this year’s more shocking bucket designs, the Alien: Romulus merch features a life-sized Facehugger wrapped around a more traditional popcorn bucket. While not as amusing as Dune: Part Two’s or Deadpool and Wolverine’s contributions, the eye-catching design would no doubt appeal to fans of the franchise and its frightening creatures.

Alien: Romulus’ Popcorn Bucket Highlights Its Return To The Franchise’s Original Creatures

The Later Alien Sequels All Tried To Put Their Own Spin On The Classic Creature Designs.

Few movie creatures are as memorable or as frightening as the Alien franchise’s Facehuggers and Xenomorphs. Initially designed by renowned Swiss artist H.R. Giger for Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien, Giger’s other-worldly creatures played directly into some of humankind’s most deep-seated phobias. Yet as fearsome as a fully grown Xenomorph may be, with its eyeless face and inner pharyngeal jaw, the creature’s parasitoid form is perhaps the franchise’s most unsettling.

Resembling a pair of skeletal hands fused together with a prehensile tail, the Facehugger’s arachnid-like appearance has been the stuff of nightmares for generations of moviegoers. Moreover, trailers for this year’s Alien: Romulus have not been shy about teasing the creatures’ highly anticipated return, with some scenes promising a swarm of Facehuggers moving at frightening speed throughout the space station that serves as the movie’s claustrophobic setting. This kind of celebration of Giger’s original designs will likely come as some relief for fans, given the Alien franchise’s later sequels were all intent on delivering their own Xenomorph variations.

Between Alien 3’s dog Alien, or the human/Xenomorph hybrid in Alien: Resurrection, the Alien franchise began to increasingly steer away from the classic creature design of the first movie in favor of putting their own spin on cinema’s most iconic extraterrestrial monsters. Alien: Romulus, however, seems set to bring viewers back to Giger’s original designs, a move which is also being celebrated in the movie’s own popcorn bucket.

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