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| Alien |
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  (9/10)
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Runtime: 117 |
| Public Rating: 9.15 (27 votes) |
Director: Ridley Scott |
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| Genre: Science Fiction/Horror |
Year: 1979 |
| Writer(s): Dan O'Bannon (story), Ronald Shusett |
| Reviewed by: Greg C. |
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In space, no one can hear you scream. That's the truth. Quite possibly one of the scariest movies around, Alien is a real nail-biter.
On the space oil transpot Nostromas, Warrent Officer Ellen Ripley and her crew come across an abandond spaceship, with something not-so-nice inside. A member of the crew comes across a room full of strange, egg-like capsules. As he gets closer to one to invesigate, the egg begins to hatch, and BOOM! we get our first glimpse of the terrifying face-huggers. The crew retrive him and take him back to the ship, where, 48 hours later, the face hugger falls off and dies. The man wakes up feeling fine. And hungry.
Its what happens over the crew's dinner that sets the stage for what's to come for the rest the movie. An alien breaks out of the infected man's stomach- a truly horrifying scene- and goes into hiding. Meanwhile, Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver in her first major role), and her crew try to hunt it down and either capture the thing or destroy it.
What they don't know is that the alien is growing up. Quickly.
Alien set a new standard for horror/sci-fi, and it is a formula that has been copied, to varying success, ever since, in movies like "The Thing" and even "Star Trek: First Contact". Here Ridley Scott gives the most frightning film in this series because he rarely shows the alien. Much like Spielberg's Jaws, the real reason is because the technology avalible at that time could not produce a realistic enough alien, so they showed it sparingly. And also like Jaws, it only makes the tension better. Followed by three sequels, all of which are unique in their own way.
Rated R for language and graphic violence.
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