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cosmic-horror
2012 · R · 2h 4m
The search for our beginning could lead to our end.
Scientists travel to meet humanity's creators. What they find doesn't want to be found — and didn't intend to be survived.
Scientists follow a star map painted on cave walls across ancient civilizations to a distant moon — and find evidence that our creators are still there, along with a weapon capable of ending all life on Earth.
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Scientists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover identical star maps across multiple unconnected ancient cultures pointing to a system 35 light-years away. The Weyland Corporation funds the expedition aboard the Prometheus to moon LV-223. They find a massive dome structure containing Engineer DNA matching humans, holographic recordings of giant humanoid beings fleeing in terror, and urns of a black liquid bio-weapon. The liquid is mutagenic: it corrupts biology and behavior on contact. Charlie is infected by David the android — on Weyland's orders — and begins to deteriorate. Elizabeth performs an emergency self-caesarean to remove a squid-like organism growing inside her. The surviving Engineer awakens from stasis and attempts to launch a vessel loaded with the bio-weapon toward Earth. Elizabeth and Janek crash the Prometheus into the Engineer ship to stop it. The creature Elizabeth removed has grown enormous; it attacks the Engineer and impregnates it. A proto-xenomorph bursts from the Engineer's chest. Elizabeth, with only David's severed head for company, escapes in a second Engineer vessel to find the Engineers' home world and demand answers.
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