Alien

Movie • 1979

8.5

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    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.

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Roger Ebert

"Alien" builds tension through anticipation, dialectically engaging with its audience through a mix of horror and deep-space suspense.

rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-alien-1979

The Guardian

After 40 years, this sci-fi horror masterpiece still feels lethally contemporary.

theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/01/alien-review-ridley-scott-lethally-contemporary-masterpiece

The Guardian

No film I have seen in the last year or so, excluding perhaps The Deer Hunter, emanates so strong a whiff of palpable, nerve-straining shock.

theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/13/derek-malcolm-alien-review

The Film Magazine

Alien’s pairing of genuine, spine-tingling horror and thematic resonance put Ridley Scott on the map.

thefilmagazine.com/alien-1979-review-ridley-scott-movie/

Rotten Tomatoes

I don't think I've seen a horror movie do so much with so little. Showing very little of the alien allows the audience to make up an image of what it looks like in their own mind, this adds more tension and suspense.

rottentomatoes.com/m/alien

Sounds of Cinema

Alien is one of a handful of sci-fi and horror movies that has defined those genres.

soundsofcinema.com/review-archive/review-alien-1979/

Common Sense Media

Alien was a state-of-the-art shocker, even though it basically has a second-hand monster plot and characters that behave like cliched horror-movie victims.

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IMDb

'Alien' is a horror classic and an absolutely unforgettable movie that I can't recommend highly enough.

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