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Alien

1979 · 117 MIN · HORROR / SCIENCE FICTION

STAFF RATING:★★★★★5.0 / 5

TMDB:8.2 (16,380 votes)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

DIRECTED BY:Ridley Scott

WRITTEN BY:Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

STARRING:Tom Skerritt, Tom Skerritt, Tom Skerritt, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver

STUDIO:Brandywine Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

shelf notes: alien · android · beheading · biology · cosmos · countdown · cowardice · dystopia · female protagonist · parasite · space · space marine · space opera · space suit

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