Alien R
In space no one can hear you scream.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 11, 2017
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt & Ian Holm | |
Performer: | Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright & Yaphet Kotto | |
Directed by | Ridley Scott | |
Edited by | Terry Rawlings & Peter Weatherly | |
Screenwriting by | Dan O'Bannon | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Cinematography by | Derek Vanlint | |
Story by | Dan O'Bannon | |
Produced by | Gordon Carroll, David Giler & Walter Hill |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Visual Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...Ridley Scott was a force to be reckoned with...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Rating: 5/5 --
A sci-fi thriller of palpable, nerve-tingling tension, with Sigourney Weaver -- playing warrant officer Ellen Ripley -- in stunning form.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 5/5 --
Ridley Scott slowly drains every droplet of hope from his audience as the tension rises in a crescendo, his camera lingering for an age on the crew's desperate faces. Even after multiple watches it remains brutally frightening. (4k restoration)
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Weaver's Ripley revolutionized women's roles by introducing the female action hero...
Premiere
This gorgeous, leisurely horror film expresses a spectacularly British xenophobia, a parenthetical nightmare of invasion envisioned between an awakening (at the start of the film) and a return to sleep (at its close).
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Sight and Sound
...An old-fashioned scary movie set in a highly realistic sci-fi future, made all the more believable by the expert technical craftsmanship....[Weaver] carries it off well...
Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
Seen again a quarter-century later, we marvel at how the filmmaker generates so much tension and sweat with a bare minimum of moving parts.
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Globe and Mail
Product Description:
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.
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.
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