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Jul 22, 2016 · 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.
- Mike Mcgranaghan
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.
Aug 23, 2024 · Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, is a science fiction horror film that follows the crew of the commercial spacecraft Nostromo. Upon investigating a distress signal on a distant moon, they discover a deadly extraterrestrial lifeform.
- Grant Hermanns
May 25, 2024 · Why is Ridley Scott's famous sci-fi horror a perfect movie? It's not the killer alien it reveals, but everything it carefully conceals from the audience.
- Ryan Britt
After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. In the distant future, the commercial spaceship "Nostromo" crew is on its way home when the crew picks up a distress call from a distant moon.
Oct 26, 2003 · One of the reasons she works so well in the role is that she comes across as smart; the 1979 “Alien” is a much more cerebral movie than its sequels, with the characters (and the audience) genuinely engaged in curiosity about this weirdest of lifeforms.
After the staff of the merchant's vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew members attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
