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Alien (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott
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Overview
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.
Rated R | Length 117 minutes
Actors
Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Veronica Cartwright | Harry Dean Stanton | John Hurt | Ian Holm | Yaphet Kotto | Bolaji Badejo | Helen Horton
Viewing History (seen 7 times)
Viewing Notes
Finally got to see this in a theater as part of AMC’s classic screening series and it did not disappoint! It was great to watch it with a mixed crowd of people who had and had not seen it before. Seeing people jump in their seats was worth the price of admission all on its own!
As was the case with The Godfather, I noticed a lot of smaller details that I never picked up on the many times I’ve watched this on DVD and Blu-ray.
11 years ago
I think most of my audience had seen the film but still a few people jumped or gasped during those moments. Great to see on the big screen finally! If there was an opportunity to see a print of this I’d go again.
11 years ago
I’d love to see a 35mm print of this, but until then the digital will have to do. I just felt like a kid again being able to see this in a theater! Was too young when it originally came out (at least according to my parents, who never took us to see movies in the theater anyway).