Alien overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 3
...ranks in these movie lists:
- Sigourney Weaver's Best Movies (#1)
- Most Horrifying Outer Space Movies (#1)
- Favorite Movies 1970s (#13)
- Greatest SciFi Movies (#3)
- Movies That Should Be Remade in 3D (#9)
- Worst SciFi Candidates for a Remake (#1)
- Greatest Sex Scenes... in Space! (#1)
- Top Ten Parasite Movies (#1)
- SciFi Movie Explosions (#9)
- Horror Flicks for Ghoulish Chicks (#7)
Synopsis:
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt).
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Movie Details:
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Studio: Brandywine, 20th Century Fox
- Year: 1979
- Run Time: 117 minutes
- Country: UK, USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Science Fiction
- Filmed in: Color
