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Alien (1979)

7.8 Listal rating
8.5 IMDB rating

3 Videos

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6 Reviews

54 Lists

669 Ratings

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Description

When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers ... (more)


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Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt

Dallas
John Hurt

John Hurt

Kane
Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto

Parker
Helen Horton

Helen Horton

Mother (voice)


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Dan O'Bannon

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Alien trailer

Alien trailer

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Ratings of Alien






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The Original Alien.

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago at Nov 20 16:32
Ash: Ripley, for God's sake, this is the first time that we've encountered a species like this. It has to go back. All sorts of tests have to be made.
Ripley: Ash, are you kidding? This thing bled acid. Who knows what it's gonna do when it's dead?
Ash: I think it's safe to assume it isn't a zombie.

A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant plane...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Alien

Posted : 4 months, 3 weeks ago at Aug 11 19:25
I really do miss the 70s horror films, because they weren’t content to “scare” you with loads of blood and gore but by taking the time to build the suspense and creep you out. Sure, everyone knows and loves the chest-burster scene, but, for me, the best and scariest scene remains the one where Dallas goes looking for the xenomorph and it pops out of nowhere in an air duct and grabs him. It...Read more

Quite Scary.

Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago at Jul 16 17:36
"Alien" is a rather scary film. It has it's own kind of fear to it. A fear that can only be found while watching this specific film. You don't see this kind of a movie anywhere anymore. Th reason I find it scary, is because you don't actually see the alien until almost the end of the film. The build up of how scary you think the alien will be, is almost as frightening as seeing it. I was...Read more

Rating : 8/10

One of the Best Monster Movies

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Apr 10 8:28
This is a testiment to the monster/sci-fi movie genre. This is not only suspensful, but it started a sage that is still loved by so many today. I can watch this movie 10 times in a day and still love it by the last showing. This is just one of the great sci-fi classics.

Rating : 10/10

it's what you don't see...

Posted : 1 year, 12 months ago at Jan 8 11:04
This is still a scary movie, almost 28 years later. Ridley Scott did an amazing job of building up what you didn't see into something horrible, and when you *do* see it, it scares the audience...

HR Giger's art makes this even more twisted and alien, and when all of the pieces are tied together, it makes for a helluva movie.

Rating : 9/10

Horrifying

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago at Nov 23 16:19
Straight from the twisted mind of artist HR Giger, the science fiction horror bloomed into one of the biggest cult films of all time. Sigourney Weaver steps into space to deliver one of the most horrifying performances in the genre as the Aliens delivered themselves into the nightmares of people everywhere.

Rating : 9/10