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Alien (1979) Movie Review

Alien – Movie Review

Discover the iconic sci-fi horror film Alien and its gripping story of a deadly encounter with an unknown lifeform.

ABC Film Challenge – Favourites – X (Xenomorph)

Director: Ridley Scott

Writer: Dan O’Bannon (Screenplay)

Writer: Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett (Story)

Cast

Plot: After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

Runtime: 1 Hour 57 Minutes 

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Alien starts when a small crew of Ripley (Weaver), Dallas (Skerritt), Kane (Hurt), Lamber (Cartwright), Brett (Stanton), Ash (Holm) and Parker (Kotto) get woken up from their cryosleep. Their super-computer has picked up a signal that needs investigating. However, they stumble across some unknown eggs, which attach their hatchings to Kane.

When they return to the ship, they skip quarantine and unleash an alien creature loose. They must work together to fight back against the creature, who has started picking them off one by one. However, the alien becomes much harder to kill, and the crew learns what they are up against.

Verdict on Alien

Alien is a sci-fi horror following the crew of a spaceship who discover a distress call. They discover an alien creature which gets loose on their ship, leading to them needing to hunt it down, before it hunts them all down.

This movie is an all-time classic, arguably the greatest sci-fi horror ever made. It comes from the less is more school of filmmaking, where most of the movie is dread of knowing what they are facing. This leads to the amazing reveal of the full-blown alien which is one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history. It uses the ship to give us a contained environment where the crew must prepare for their fight and the jaw-dropping moment when the alien burst through the chest defined the surprises we were going to face.

Final Thoughts – Alien is one of the greatest movies of all time.

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ABC Film Challenge – Oscar Nomination – X – Alien

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Oscar Nomination

X

Alien

Why I’ve Picked this choice – We have gone under X because of the Xenomorphs in the film, for me this is easily the best in the whole franchise, the horror elements out way the action elements we see in the later films. Sigourney Weaver is a tour-du-force in the leading role, even though we are introduced to not knowing who the lead in the film will be, the shock of the Kane death still works even after decades since the release and when it comes the effects, the film is still flawless in the execution of them. This is one of the greatest horror movies of all time and a must watch for everyone who calls themselves a film fan.