“Why is god confused?”: The Scariest Scene in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is Much Deeper than the Fans Give It Credit for Due to an Existential Crisis

Directed by Ridley Scott, 2012’s Prometheus serves as the fifth installment in the Alien franchise and prequel to 1979’s Alien, also directed by Scott. Set in the 21st century, the prequel takes place 31 years before the events of Alien and builds a foreboding origin story to the creation of Xenomorphs.

The filmmaker mentioned that even though Prometheus shares strands of Alien’s DNA and is set in the same universe, it explores its ideas and mythology. The movie was shot using 3D cameras throughout and, upon release, received positive comments from the critics and the audience. The release of Alien: Romulus has motivated fans to watch all the movies in the franchise once again, and they have now pointed out one scary scene from Prometheus.

Fans point out the scariest scene from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

Fede Àlvarez’s Alien: Romulus, starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Isabela Merced, and more, has received positive reviews from critics and the audience. The movie is set between the events of Alien and Aliens and has urged ardent fans to revisit their favorite movies from the Alien franchise. 2012’s Ridley Scott-directed Prometheus is one of those.

Prometheus is a story about human beings going to meet their maker. The maker might not be interested in meeting his creation because he created humans with the intention of wiping us off. The movie opens with a strange and otherworldly hulking white humanoid ingesting a potion of black liquid, which causes him to disintegrate into a frigid blue ocean.

Years later, the audience meets Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, who believes that she has found the root of human life—the engineers. So when the crew arrives on the planet to meet the creator, they find that the Engineer Craft is cold, full of parasites that penetrate a body from the jaws inward, a black goo that can turn a body into a monster, and can turn infertile women pregnant.

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The engineer, who had been asleep, was awakened by the crew and was not very happy to see them. The user (@LanternJS) pointed out this scene as the scariest in the movie. He wrote,

The confused look on his face says, ‘What the f**k are you doing here and why are you talking to me? You shouldn’t be anywhere near here.’ The last expression you expect is, why is God confused? Instantly opens a cosmic can of worms.

However, another user mentioned that according to them it’s not just about someone getting there, which threw Engineer for a loop, but the fact that he’s quickly able to understand that David is an artificial life form that humans made. They added that it is indeed one hell of a thing to wake up to for the creator of humans.

Fede Álvarez talks about the ending of Alien: Romulus and its connection to Prometheus

Alien: Romulus takes place after the prequel Prometheus, its sequel Alien: Covenant, and Alien. The 2024 movie climax had Kay, played by Merced, giving birth to an unholy hybrid of human and alien DNA. The creature branded as offspring resembles the engineer that the audience saw in Prometheus. The birthing scene resembled that in Alien: Resurrection.

In an interview with Variety, the filmmaker shared that he’d been more focused on the mythology of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, but it was his son who thought of the connection between the two. He stated

I was hoping that people would pick up the whole engineering part of it. The black goo is the root of the whole thing that was introduced in Prometheus. It is the root of all life, but also particularly the xenomorphs come out of that thing, which means it has to be inside them. It’s the xenomorphs’ semen. Almost.

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The filmmaker added that it started to make sense to him how the offspring of a human and a xenomorph would look like after they thought about how it affects the DNA, and engineers came out of the same root of life. He lastly added that the resulting life form raises more questions than answers them, as it may be a new species.

Alien: Romulus is playing in cinemas. Prometheus can be streamed on Disney+.