Alien (1979)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed. Title

: Alien

Release Date

: May 25, 1979

Runtime

: 117 minutes

MPAA Rating

:R

Genres

: Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

Production Co.

: Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Brandywine Productions

Production Countries

: United States of America, United Kingdom

Director

: Ridley Scott

Writers

: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

Casts

: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm,

Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell Plot Keywords

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android, self-destruction, countdown, space marine, space suit, beheading, dying and death, biology, alien, female protagonist, cowardliness, parasite, h. r. giger           

Alien 1 - [US] Alien I - [US] Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro - [BR] 異形 - [TW] Obcy: 8. pasażer Nostromo - [PL] Alien - O 8.º Passageiro - [PT] Alien (Director's Cut) - [US] Alien, le huitième passager - [FR] Alien, le 8ème passager - [FR] Alien El Octavo Pasajero - [SV] Άλιεν: Ο Επιβάτης Του Διαστήματος - [GR]

Alien Reviews 

The mother of all movies by Patuquitos on 31 January 2005

568 out of 697 people found the following review useful: Back in early 20th century, Lumière brothers didn't have a clue of what they were playing with. I'm freaking sure that if somebody could have magically told them that thanks to their work, a movie like 'Alien' would have been made in the future, they both would have died of a sudden, shocked by the consequences of their labor, like an honest scientist would if he was shown an evil use of his research. In that sense, but in the best way imaginable, 'Alien' is the atomic bomb. In my opinion, 'Alien' is the only perfect movie in the history of cinema. Of course, this could be debatable, but of all the films I've watched since I was born, this is the only one in which I haven't been able to find the slightest flaw. It gets a golden ten out of ten. Bright, solid and massive.