Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1979
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 117
Rating: 5.9 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Ridley Scott
Sound: 70 mm 6-Track, Dolby
Taglines:
- In space no one can hear you scream.
- The Scariest Movie Ever Made. Experience it only on the big screen (USA 2003 re-release)
- Sometimes the scariest things come from within
- Its Alien, the 8th passenger.
- The scariest movie ever made… just got scarier. (UK 2003 re-release)
- A word of warning…
- In space no one can hear you scream… This Halloween in theatres, everyone will hear you scream (Re-Release)
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Writing by: Dan OBannon – (story) and
Ronald Shusett – (story)
Dan OBannon – (screenplay)
Produced by: Gordon Carroll – producer
David Giler – producer
Walter Hill – producer
Ivor Powell – associate producer
Ronald Shusett – executive producer
Cast: Tom Skerritt – Dallas
Sigourney Weaver – Ripley
Veronica Cartwright – Lambert
Harry Dean Stanton – Brett
John Hurt – Kane
Ian Holm – Ash
Yaphet Kotto – Parker
Bolaji Badejo – Alien
Helen Horton – Mother (voice)
Eddie Powell – Alien (uncredited)
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.
Plot: When a mining ship lands on a planet to investigate upon a suspected SOS, the entire crew are unaware of the terror which they would unleash upon their ship. When a alien life-form attachs itself to the face of a crew member, the rest of the team act fast to try and separate the two organisms. Unbeknownst to everyone, this is the start of the terror which would affect every member of the seven person crew.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The colors in the opening Columbia Pictures logo quickly fade, leaving only blues and grays.
Goofs: We know about 42 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the opening scene, we see the reflection of a computer screen on the helmet with a cup on the right. When we see the helmet again, it is showing a different screen, so the cup is not present.
Trivia: There are 119 entries in the trivia list – like these:- Originally to be directed by Walter Hill, but he pulled out and gave the job to Ridley Scott.
- Veronica Cartwright was originally to play Ripley, but producers opted for Sigourney Weaver.
- An early draft of the script had a male Ripley.
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