“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

This November, the Predator returns to the big-screen in Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands. Since the release of the original film back in 1987, the alien trophy hunter has become a pop culture ...