It was in 1979 this classic came along, mixing science fiction with horror in a way that no one had ever seen before. Director Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, G.I Jane) managed to create an extremely claustrophobic atmosphere, and though I unfortunately never have had the chance to see it on the big screen, i can imagine that it must have been a overwhelming feeling. A truly great movie!
Story, from www.alien.com
In deep space, the crew of the commercial
starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey
back home to earth and rerouted to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel on the
planet LV-426.
While attempting to land on the barren planet, the vessel has engine trouble and must
remain on the surface for repairs. While the engineers service the engines and Lt. Ripley
tries to decipher the transmission, three crew members -- Captain Dallas, Executive
Officer Kane, and Navigation Officer Lambert -- set out to investigate the derelict ship.
Too late, Ripley discovers that the transmission is a warning, not an SOS.
While searching the ship, Kane encounters a cargo hold filled with eggs. When he moves
closer to investigate, an egg opens and a parasitic organism attaches itself to his face
and he falls into a coma. The others take Kane back to the ship where they discover they
cannot remove the parasite without killing him.
Several hours later, the parasite dies and Kane wakes up, seeming fine. What the crew
doesn't realize is that the alien has reproduced inside of Kane's body and once mature,
bursts out of his chest, killing him.
As the crew attempts to hunt down the alien, it hunts and kills them, one by one. And in
trying to figure out how to destroy the alien, the crew discovers the Company's plans to
bring back the alien for their Bio-Weapons Division -- no matter what the cost. Ash, the
Science Officer, will stop at nothing to achieve his goal, even attempting to kill his
fellow crewmates.
The last surviving crew member, Lt. Ripley, attempts to destroy the alien by setting the
self-destruct on the Nostromo and escaping in a shuttle. But without her knowledge, the
alien has stowed away aboard the shuttle. In the final battle, Ripley blows the alien out
of the airlock.
Cast:
Ellen Ripley: Sigourney Weaver
Dallas: Tom Skeritt
Ash: Ian Holm
Brett Harry Dean Stanton
Kane: John Hurt
Parker: Yaphet Kotto
Lambert: Veronica Cartwright
Alien design by H.R. Giger
Some pics:
nice pic, looks like a movieposter
The alien trying not to be sucked into space
Facehugger attacking Kane ( John Hurt )
