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Alien Details

1979 Certificate 18
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, which lands on a moribund planet .. Read more

Starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton
Director Ridley Scott
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, which lands on a moribund planet in response to a faint SOS. Inside a crashed ship, the crew members come upon strange pods, one of which spews forth a repellently fleshy insectile creature that locks on to the face of the unlucky Kane (John Hurt). Despite Ripley's advice, science officer Ash (Ian Holm) allows Kane to return to the ship, where the creature finally releases its grip. Soon, however, in one of the film's most infamous scenes, one of its offspring explodes horribly from Kane's stomach and scurries away. Dallas (Tom Skerritt), the vessel's captain, leads the others in a search for the rapidly growing, acid-dripping alien before it can cut them down--one by one.
A triumph of art direction, set design, and special effects, ALIEN gains much of its impact from the contrast between the bleak, antiseptic beauty of the space vessel's interior and the primordial horror of the alien, a brilliantly original fusion of insect, man, and machine designed by Swiss surrealist painter H.R. Giger. The top-notch cast also includes Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, and Harry Dean Stanton.

Starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright
Director Ridley Scott
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 56 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 56 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Collections 100 must-see movies
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Icelandic, Thai, Finnish, Danish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Greek, Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Czech, Norweigan, Portuguese, Hungarian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Polish
Released Production year: 1979

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DVD: 15 May 2000
Blu-ray: Unavailable for rental
Blu-ray: 30 Jan 2012

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