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  2. Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror epic Alien gave audiences something they'd never quite seen before. The film benefited from the release of Star Wars two years earlier. After the George Lucas fantasy became the biggest movie ever, science-fiction came back into vogue, and 20th Century Fox went looking for more pictures in the genre to greenlight.

  3. May 12, 2022 · The 1979 Alien trailer has influenced countless horror trailers — because it’s a microcosm of horror itself from Vox. Logline: The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission. Forget the logline. Alien has one of the best taglines in the history of movies:

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    Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean ...

  5. Apr 17, 2020 · For the xenomorph, their reptilian appearance conveys the notion of an extremely cold, calculated predatory instinctual incarnation, with no use for emotion. As Ash explains, they are a pure, beautiful silicon based lifeform (like himself, or so he believes) and is thus superior to humanity.

  6. Aug 23, 2024 · Unpacking the Gothic monstrousness of sci-fi horror Alien, and how this narrative repeatedly reveals its twists in plain sight. There’s a terse, pivotal scene in Alien where the surviving crew of the Nostromo discuss their odds of survival.

  7. Jan 7, 2018 · Alien was conceived as a gothic horror film set in space and the design evokes a gothic atmosphere. The film is set aboard the Nostromo, a commercial towing vehicle. The ship is essentially a giant oil-refinery, but Scott wanted it to look like a gothic cathedral floating in space.

  8. Oct 26, 2003 · Alien. A discovery on an alien planet in "Alien." At its most fundamental level, “Alien” is a movie about things that can jump out of the dark and kill you. It shares a kinship with the shark in “ Jaws,” Michael Myers in “ Halloween,” and assorted spiders, snakes, tarantulas and stalkers. Its most obvious influence is Howard Hawks ...