"Yes, I'm talking about the Eyeball, the seventh-grade horror fan's notebook doodle come to CGI life, which is being held on Boy Kavalier's island with the rest of Weyland-Yutani's intergalactic spoils. While there are many new creatures that crashed to Earth aboard the specimen-filled Maginot, a ship on a biological-research mission, there is only one with the kind of shit-talking (and shit-taking) main-character energy to ensure it will be haunting our nightmares even longer than the original Xenomorph."
"Part of what makes it so scary is its method of survival. Outside a host, it looks like an eyeball with a dozen irises nested above a baby octopus's worth of super-elastic tentacles it can use to crawl, stick to surfaces, walk upside down, and catapult itself long distances. (Science officer Chibuzo calls it "she" at one point, but we're going with "it" because the Eyeball is above such puny Earth constructs as gender.)"
The Eyeball is a newly introduced creature on Earth, held among Weyland-Yutani's intergalactic spoils on Boy Kavalier's island. The Eyeball appears as a single eyeball with multiple irises above numerous super-elastic tentacles that allow crawling, sticking, inverted movement, and long-distance catapulting. The creature survives by skittering to a host's head, scratching the face, prying out the host eye, and planting itself in the skull. Its tentacles connect to the optic nerve and take over brain and body control, and the host body does not even need to be alive. The Eyeball displays dominant, main-character menace beyond other crashed specimens.
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