SECTION SHELF
Creature Feature
48 tapes on this shelf, staff picks up front
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, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
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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