Alien Movie

Alien
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Run Time: 117 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1979
Directors: Ridley Scott
Genre/Type: Science Fiction
Creature Film
Sci-Fi Horror
Producers: Gordon Carroll
David Giler
Walter Hill
Plot Synopsis by Lucia Bozzola
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Tom Skerritt Dallas Aug 25, 1933 in Detroit, MI
Sigourney Weaver Ellen Ripley Oct 8, 1949 in New York City, NY
Veronica Cartwright Lambert Apr 20, 1949 in Bristol, England, UK
Yaphet Kotto Parker Nov 15, 1937 in New York City, NY
Harry Dean Stanton Brett Jul 14, 1926 in West Irvine, KY
John Hurt Kane Jan 22, 1940 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
Ian Holm Ash Sep 12, 1931 in Goodmayes, Ilford, England
Helen Horton Mother
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Review by Lucia Bozzola
Combining science fiction with horror, Swiss artist H.R. Giger's alien design and Carlo Rambaldi's visual effects creepily meld technology with corporeality, creating a claustrophobic environment that is coldly mechanical yet horribly anthropomorphized, like the metallic monster itself. Director Ridley Scott keeps the alien out of full view, hiding it in the dark or camouflaging it in the workings of the . Signs of '70s cultural upheaval permeate Alien's future world, from the relationship between corporate capitalism and rapacious monstrosity to the heterogeneous crew and Ripley's forceful horror heroine. The intense frights and gross-outs, however, are credited with making Alien one of the biggest hits of 1979 (it premiered on the two-year anniversary of Star Wars); Giger, Rambaldi, et al. won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Alien went on to spawn three genre-bending sequels (and reconditioned Ripleys): exceptional '80s actioner Aliens (1986), dark prison drama Alien 3 (1992), and exotically grotesque Alien Resurrection (1997). With its atmospheric isolation, implacable monster, and whiff of social conscience, Alien stands as one of the more thoughtful yet utterly terrifying horror films of the 1970s.
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