The crew of the Nostromo is awakened when the ship’s computer, Mother, picks up a distress signal from an uninhabited planet… What they discover they won’t soon forget. By far the scariest in the long-running Alien franchise, this was the anti-Star Wars: a dirty, dark and dangerous space movie, claustrophobic and prickling with anxiety.
Sscreenwriter Dan O’Bannon told essentially the same story in John Carpenter’s goofy comedy Dark Star — in which the alien interloper was memorably played by a beachball. Here, monster designer HR Giger goes a different route. It also features one of the most stomach-churning jump-scares in film history. “In Space, no one can hear you scream,” ran the famous tagline. Cinema audiences heard plenty.
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Ridley Scott
Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton
UK
1979
English
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Friday November 29
Indigenous & Community Access
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The crew of the Nostromo is awakened when the ship's computer, Mother, picks up a distress signal from an uninhabited planet... What they find they won't soon forget. By far the scariest in the long-running Alien franchise, this was the anti-Star Wars.
