Alien

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

Ridley Scott Dan O'Bannon Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill Ivor Powell Ronald Shusett Jerry Goldsmith Derek Vanlint Terry Rawlings Peter Weatherley Michael Seymour Roger Christian Roger Christian Leslie Dilley Ian Whittaker John Mollo Robert Hathaway H.R. Giger Brian Johnson Mary Goldberg Mary Selway Jonathan Amberston Dave Jordan Bryan Tilling Max Bell Roy Scammell Bob Penn Jean Giraud Ronald Shusett Dan O'Bannon H.R. Giger Carlo Rambaldi Brian Johnson Nick Allder Dennis Ayling Ben Burtt

Actors:

Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver Veronica Cartwright Harry Dean Stanton John Hurt Ian Holm Yaphet Kotto Bolaji Badejo Helen Horton Eddie Powell

Genre:

Science Fiction, Horror

Country: no data

Year: 1979

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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.

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Asa Butterfield

Actor

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almost 4 years ago

#10daymoviechallenge ‘Alien’ (1979)

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Peter Parker

Blogger, Scientist, Superhero

28 followers

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4 years ago

He's referencing Aliens. This is a reference he gets wrong; in the film, his plan involves kicking the Thanos crony Ebony Maw out of an airlock. That particular move happens in the first Alien.

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Richard Dawkins

Writer, Scientist

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4 years ago

The top tens were voted for by a panel of sixty scientists including Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, Oxford University; Steven Pinker, psychologist, Harvard; Steven Rose, neuroscientist, Open University and Steve Jones, geneticist, UCL.

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Michael B. Jordan

Actor

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11 months ago

Now that you're entering this world of science fiction, any sci-fi films you always come back to? MJ: The first Alien was really good for me, and scary.

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Timothée Chalamet

Actor

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over 3 years ago

What's your favorite films you watched on set during movie nights with Luco? Oh, the non-sophisticated part of me wants to say Alien.

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Alison Brie

Actress, Writer, Producer

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5 months ago

So it makes sense that her second pick is another Weaver film, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien. Brie loved the special effects in the film in particular. “For the time when it was made, the effects, I think, hold up completely,” she said. “You know, the scene with the alien popping out of the guy’s chest. It’s gripping.“

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