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wakes the crew including devoutly religious first mate Christopher Oram (Billy Crudup) and his biologist wife Karine (Carmen Ejogo), chief pilot Tennessee (Danny McBride), head of security Lope (Demian Bichir) and the captain’s plucky wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterston).

They stumble upon a distress signal containing a snippet of John Denver’s classic Take Me Home, Country Roads, broadcast from a nearby planet that sensors reveal would make an idyllic new home.

“It’s too good to be true,” warns Daniels as a landing party prepares to investigate.

Alien: Covenant joins the dots to the original film with strong Ripley-light: Katherine Waterston as Daniels Acid trip: The iconic monster is back in Ridley Scott’s latest Alien movie Danny McBride as Tennessee echoes of Sigourney Weaver’s exploits as Ripley, meekly mimicked here by Waterston.

Jump-out-of-your-seat scares have been eradicated from the picture’s DNA and the script’s sleight of hand is clumsy.

In the year 2104, characters are evidently none the wiser about the tattered rules of surviving a horror film – don’t have sex, don’t wander off alone, don’t assume the killer is dead – and sign their death warrants with hilarious predictability.

Before Scott nestles in the director’s chair for another instalment, he should take heed of Daniels’ doom-laden words: “It’s a monumental risk not worth taking.” GOLDIE HAWN and Amy Schumer play mother and daughter, whose dream getaway turns into a nightmare, in the comedy SNATCHED ... and an heir apparent (Charlie Hunnam) battles his uncle (Jude Law, above) for the crown in Guy Ritchie’s KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD .