Fans' excitement for Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant has been in overdrive since the overwhelming reaction to the film's first footage was first reported.

A crop of new images have been released for the Prometheus sequel and they seem to make good on the chatter.

Sparse in detail, each abstract image - released via the film's Twitter account - conveys enough creepiness to hammer home that Alien: Covenant is very much an entry for the adults.

One image shows Michael Fassbender's android David - or could it be Walter, the other robot he's playing? - dressed all in white playing a piano, while another shows the walls of colony ship Covenant spattered with blood.

You can see all five of the stills below.

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