Alien (35th Anniversary) (Blu-ray) R
In space no one can hear you scream.
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Blu-ray Details
- 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
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:
There is something beautifully simplistic about Alien-the practical effects, the design of the alien, and how the tension just keeps ramping up.
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The Mary Sue
...With its cliché-confounding cast and plotting, roughneck sensibility and star-making turn from Weaver, ALIEN rewards repeat viewing...
Total Film
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.
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New York Daily News
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.
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Houston Chronicle
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
So much of filmmaking is a crapshoot, but every once in awhile, the elements pulled together in front of and behind the camera make for a kind of cinematic alchemy. Alien is one of those instances.
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Zaki's Corner
Ridley Scott's 1979 movie is a great original.
Chicago Sun-Times
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.