Alien (Blu-ray) R

In space no one can hear you scream.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 7, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: 20Th Century Studios

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1979 - Best Visual Effects: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh97%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 458,982
Rating: 5/5 -- Everything shrieks fit to burst, ignoring the poster tagline ("In space no one can hear you scream"). Full Review
Financial Times
Feb 20, 2019
The filmmakers have come up with some images that are sheerest nightmare. The film earns its shudders honestly: Scott is too talented to need gratuitousness as a aid. Full Review
Houston Chronicle
Aug 13, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- An real classic, that rare case of top cast, top script, top directing, top set and practice effects, everything. In terms of tense sci-fi horrors, it's hard to top Alien. Full Review
hoganreviews.co.uk
Feb 1, 2019
...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
May 23, 1979
Weaver's Ripley revolutionized women's roles by introducing the female action hero...
Premiere
Apr 1, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- This is a screamingly spooky sci-fi tale with more than a few echoes of "The Thing" but echoes which enhance rather than detract. Full Review
New York Daily News
May 25, 2016
...Scott's film still shreds nerves....At once graphically elegant and viscerally effective, the future conjured up by Scott was dystopian to the core...
Los Angeles Times
Oct 29, 2003

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.

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