Alien (DVD)

...viewer as glimpses of the alien are few and far between but what you do see, you'll wish you hadn't. As mentioned, the settings are designed by H.R.Giger and are purposefully drab but exquisitely detailed - 'atmospheric' is a word seemingly invented solely for the purpose of describing this film. The long-range matte shots, the space-ship interiors, the reflected outline of the ship against a distant sun and many others are all executed with a discernible ...
...His observation of the alien as a 'perfect organism' is chillingly and simply delivered. Without wanting to spoil the plot, there are several memorable set-pieces but the one that is most likely to stick in the mind is the infamous, literally gut-wrenching scene when the alien first makes its gruesome appearance. I read somewhere that director Scott hadn't told the actors what was going to happen in this scene so the blood-spattered, shocked faces ...

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*** INTRODUCTION *** Alien is a 1979 sci-fi horror film directed by Brit Ridley Scott. It stars Sigourney Weaver in her first lead role and, as a result of the film's success, catapulted the actress into the public consciousness and did so virtually overnight. Briefly, the film centres on a small, terrified crew who, one-by-one, are picked off by an incredibly vicious predator. The premise was later to be used as the basis for the popular BBC1 show, ...
...contains the remains of an alien creature whose ribs appear to have been bent out of its chest from the inside. Upon further investigation and exploration of the ship Kane finds a chamber which contains hundreds of eggs. One such egg, seemingly due to the proximity of Kane, "hatches" and releases a spider-like creature which attaches itself to his face. Meanwhile, Ripley is able to determine that the S.O.S. signal originally detected by Mother is, ...

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...Alien is a shaping film in the history of horror having spawned many imitators over the past twenty-five years. Combining equal parts of science fiction and horror there’s something distinctive about the mood of the film right from the start. The film feels somehow oppressive and as the spaceship lumbers through space Ridley Scott (Director) takes us on a silent tour of the gigantic vessel. The camera pans smoothly through the ship and the lack of ...
...of the great strengths of Alien is the way that it is paced. It is slow to build up and while some people consider the beginning to be laboured and unnecessary I feel it adds to the tension that grows as the film progresses. This is not one of those all out slasher films that preys on people with a lust for unnecessary action and bravado. Scott realises the impact of suspense and uses it to great effect. In a sense he realised that it is not the ...

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...a screenplay by Walter Hill, Alien is a film that was pretty much unique for its time: a sci-fi film that didn't portray a happy, all-is-well antiseptic version of the future. Right from the opening shots of the film where we are given a guided tour of the Commercial Towing Vehicle Nostromo, you can see that the future is ever-so-slightly dirty, and possibly depressing. We are told that the Nostromo is returning to Earth towing a refinery which is ...
...team is attacked by an alien facehugger, which unknown to his colleagues implants an embryo inside him. After returning to the ship and apparently recovering, the crewmember (played by John Hurt) "gives birth" to the beast in one of cinema's most truly memorable scenes. The creature evades capture and grows rapidly, then begins killing off the remaining 6 crew members one by one. They can't kill it, as its acid blood will eat through the hull of ...

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I have owned Alien (and others in the series) in many guises, from VHS Tapes, The Alien Legacy boxset and the Quadrilogy Boxset through to now having the movie in UMD Format for the PSP, so yes you could say I am a fan of the films, and although the subsequent sequels (bar Aliens) has diminished in quality, I still enjoy each and every one of them. ===The Review=== It was on the year of release, 1979, when Ridley Scott's Alien first hit the cinema ...
...to the ship where the Alien is born and the crew have to tackle an ever evolving creature throughout the dark, cold steel caverns of the massive vessel. Although released in 1979 the catalyst for Alien or Star Beast as was the original working title (aren't we all glad that the name changed?) came 5 years previously when O'Bannon worked on the screenplay for Dark Star with John Carpenter, where, although a totally different movie, showed us the dirty ...

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...a long way from home, Alien offers us a futuristic world but with all the grime and dirt that you find in today's world. The ship Nostromo for all its futuristic nature is a factory ship, populated by people just doing their jobs for the required rate of pay. No light sabres, no vast ships saving the forests, no teleports and no psychic powers and no one boldly going anywhere, just a possible slice of future reality. The ship is dirty, wet and unpleasant ...
...of seven, one ship, one alien and not forgetting a cat, but like all good films it's not the originality of the plot that immortalises it but the way it is presented to you. The film neatly combines slow burning suspense with action and its obvious that Ridley Scott fully understands Hitchcock's famous bomb under the table statement, (in short, if it goes off, that's action, if it doesn't, that's suspense). In an age where films seem to be high on ...

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...find a derilect spaceship of alien construction and investigate. While looking round Kane enters the cargo hold and finds a mass of eggs which were being transported, one of these eggs hatches and he is attacked by the creature inside. The trio return to the ship with Kane still having the 'facehugger' attached to him. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the first officer and doesn't want to let them in, instead preferring to quarantine them but the doctor, ...
...crew attempts to catch the alien creature although quickly realises that it is a rapid grower and end up on the run and fleeing to the lifeboats for their lives as the killing machine picks them off one by one. Ridley Scott brilliantly builds the tension in the film by always keeping the creature in the shadows right up until the finale (a technique used by Steven Spielberg in Jaws a few years before). The stark machinery and claostrophobic tunnels ...

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...they can about the weird alien ship. But what they find is the stuff of nightmares. With a superb cast of; ============== Sigourney Weaver ... Ripley John Hurt ... Kane Ian Holm ... Ash (My Precious) Tom Skerritt ... Dallas Veronica Cartwright ... Lambert Harry Dean Stanton ... Brett Yaphet Kotto ... Parker Soon the horror will spread throughout their ship and people will start to die OR WORSE! With acid for blood and a built in drive simply to reproduce, ...
...The opening of the alien egg and the crawling thing that emerges is ghastly, when it decides to give Kane (John Hurt) a big kiss you know things are about to get ugly very quickly. The crew are simply out of their depth and simply cannot cope with what is about to happen to them. Only 'Jones' the ships cat knows what is happening and he soon makes tracks for the escape pod. The film was darkly shot but that was to its advantage because unlike more ...

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...nest for some strange unknown alien creature. After the landing party crew has landed, the ship’s computer then manages to decipher the distress call as being a warning rather than an SOS. One of the landing party disturbs one of the eggs and is apparently attacked by whatever was inside. On returning to the ship the crew are unaware of the terrible danger they and the rest of humanity could now be in. CAST PERFORMANCES AND OPINION Tom Skerritt ...
...Bolaji Badejo .... Alien Directed by Ridley Scott Writing credits Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett Original Music by Jerry Goldsmith Alien was Ridley Scott’s second major film, he had previously directed ‘The Duellists’ a historical drama, which was flawed in many ways and no one expected his second film to be so dramatically different. I think Ridley set out to make a traditional horror movie and if you look beyond the special effects ...

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Alien burst onto our screens in 1979, dripping with goo and introducing HR Giger's gruesomely imagined montrous alien. Giger's alien is still very much present in the rest of the Alien series - as is Sigourney Weaver. The future mapped out by Alien is one where self-interest is foremost. The Nostromo is a cargo ship, one of the worker bees of the human conquest of space, and carrier of the spoils of other worlds. When the crew of the Nostromo answer ...
...bursts open and a strange alien life-form attaches itself to his face. Kane becomes a surrogate mother to the alien implanted deep within his body, and the subsequent birth scene is one of the most shocking incidents on film, even today. Soon the quiet heartbeat of the Nostromo’s engines is countered with sinister dripping noises, and the alien starts to modify the ship with its resinous secretions, as it had done on the planetoid. The crew ...

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...was 12-years-old in 1979, when Alien first came out. I loved horror movies and I loved science-fiction. I wanted to see this movie sooooo badly. Instead, I had to content myself with reading the newspaper reports about people actually running out of the cinema, they had found it so scary! I read all the magazines with their tantalising photographs of the film’s terrible secrets, and I also read the novelisation by Alan Dean Foster. My family ...
...vast in size and obviously alien by design. During their exploration, Kane stumbles across what appears to be a nest of dormant eggs. But as he approaches one it senses him and peels open. Intrigued, Kane cautiously peers in...and SLAM...something leaps out and attaches itself to the face-mask of his spacesuit. Meanwhile, the remainder of the crew, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the medical officer, Ash (Ian Holm), and the engineers, Parker (Yaphet Kotto) ...

Crazy-Christian 14.03.2001 (23.05.2002) · Read full review
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...screaming since its original release. Alien is the movie which spawned numerous sequels and set the first benchmark for others to follow. Its getting on a bit in years now but the effects, the tension and the general clastrophobic sense of futility still remains, and whilst if you have never seen this movie before you will probably recognise many of its elements from thsoe movies which have followed since, they have never met up with the power o ...
...they do find a hug alien ship in side which are strange looking eggs - one of which bursts open releasing a slimy alien ganglion which attaches itself to John Hurt's face. He is not dead however, but appears to be being kept alive by the creature which although at first appears to be a parasite soon turns out to be otherwise. The crew of the ship are beseiged by an alien lifeform which is rapidly growing and becoming increasingly vicious...and they ...

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...has been released in cinemas, Alien was not among the very first films to be transferred to the DVD format, but was relatively early on. It was certainly among the first wave to be packaged in what are now called 'DVD cases,' rather than those cardboard things. The film will be familiar to countless people, whether you liked it or not, and is essentially a science-fiction-suspense-shocker where an entire crew, except one lady, are wiped out by a ...
...scariest films of all time, Alien managed to impress the average thrill-seeker as well as greatly impress the dedicated fan. Oh yes, and it started a very famous, yet increasingly worse, film franchise. Sigourney Weaver will be forever known as Lieutenant Ripley, the strict scientist who ironically seems the first character who should be tokenly killed, but who manages to survive. Along with the cat. Alien appeals to me for a number of different ...

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Originally released in 1979 Alien was to be the first of several sci fi/horror films featuring both ugly salivating Aliens and Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley. The film is notable for being one of the first films to have a strong female heroine/protagonist along with being a huge box office success. The Plot The crew of the spaceship Nostramo are supposed to be going home after collecting minerals however the wake to find that they have been diverted ...
...cat and mouse between the Alien and the crew as they desperately seek to outwit there foe and suck it out the airlock. However all is not as simple as it seems and the crew must not only face the Alien and the casualties which is inflicts along the way but also treachery in their midst's…. Thoughts On the whole the film was pretty good, very tense and captivating however it is one of those that you have to concentrate right from the beginning and ...

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...Nostromo, who discover a crashed alien vessel on a desolate planet. Unfortunately for the hapless crew, one of the killer xenomorphs gets loose aboard their ship and goes about making sure that none of them are going home alive. Whilst the idea of a man-eating monster killing people was nothing new even at the time (1979), this film was packed with enough original ideas to create a whole new sub-genre - the science-fiction horror. The very concept ...
...cargo decks. The way the alien manages to camouflage itself amongst its surroundings is startling, allowing it to leap out when you least expect it. A truly seminal classic then but be sure to have a spare pair of underpants handy while you watch. Who'd ever have thought that a tall bloke in a rubber suit could be so scary? ...

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