Alien
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- Tom Cooper4d agoBest Alien sci-fi film ever.
- Nathan DaviesOctober 7, 2026All time best sci-fi horror movie
- TheMovieWallSeptember 24, 2026Amazing. Wonderful. Sci-fi royalty. I'm am always in awe over what they were able to accomplish effects wise in 1979. Incredible how well this film holds up to this day. I bow down.
- Desmond DaleJanuary 24, 2025Just the perfect horror and possibly my favorite Sci-Fi film ever. The pacing is masterful. Ridley stretches out each kill to its furthest point of tension. The biomechanical designs by Geiger are impossibly detailed and intricate. And it's just a film that has a slightly slow start but never steps crescendoing until it's very last minute.
- Nathan MagretaSeptember 10, 2026Scary, creative, and unforgetable are three words to describe this classic by Ridley Scott.
- The Gutter MonkeyFebruary 23, 2025We get Sigourney Weaver running around with a flameflower in the world's tiniest pair of panties. Need I say more?
- Eric BakkeNovember 5, 2024It’s a relentless, claustrophobic horror that mixes science fiction with pure terror. Once it gets cooking, almost every frame is soaked in tension.
- Tom BennettSeptember 5, 2026Alien! This movie started an entire franchise and so many spinoffs they are impossible to count anymore and that’s largely due to the design inspired by HR Geiger and his incredible artwork. This Ridley Scott directed feature starring a very young Sigourney Weaver is still a classic in my books. Set in the distant future when space travel is common, the atmosphere is so realistic and gritty, it feels like this could practically be a documentary about a mining crew on a trip that’s gone very wrong. Even though Alien was released in 1979, if you can believe it, it still holds up in modern day viewing. The technology is not overly dated. The sets are still quite believable and even the alien holds up to a certain degree. At the very least you have to admire Ridley Scott‘s use of practical effects. Not a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination and compared to modern day horror I think some viewers will find it slow and not very scary. If you like any of the spinoff‘s or or the franchise itself then obviously this is required viewing. If you’re just curious about the alien franchise overall it’s a really good place to start. I’m just a fan of sci-fi so I would give this really excellent but not perfect movie a big thumbs up and recommendation to watch.
- anaj434September 2, 2026An OG classic, I always enjoy the Aliens, Predators & Prometheus stories.
- Neil JohnsonAugust 27, 20262nd best Alien movie
- Roger RubAugust 25, 2026perfect
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Alien was released on May 25, 1979.
Alien was directed by Ridley Scott.
Alien has a runtime of 1h 57m.
Alien was produced by Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll, David Giler.
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.
The key characters in Alien are Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Lambert (Veronica Cartwright).
Alien is rated R.
Alien is a Science Fiction, Horror film.
Alien has an audience rating of 9.4 out of 10.
Alien had a budget of $11M.
Alien has made $104.9M at the box office.