Alien

19791h 57m

About the film

Release Year

1979

Original Title

Alien

Runtime

1h 57m

Genres
Horror
Science Fiction
Director

Ridley Scott

Producer

Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll, David Giler


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.

8.5

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8.2

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