Advertisement
Join Spout
Sign in
you
You
Take a tour of spout.com
Join Spout!
Sign in
Learn more about us
Downloads
movies
Browse movies
Now in theaters
Coming soon to theaters
New on DVD
Coming soon to DVD
Trailers
Genres
Newsletters
Recent Spoutblog posts
FilmCouch
Film festival coverage
Community movie buzz
Community activity just now
Recent community reviews
Community tags
Recent lists
Get recommendation with SpoutMind
Browse store
mavens
Browse Movie Mavens
Recent maven reviews
View all mavens
Top bloggers
Top listers
Busy people
Search people
What's a maven?
communities
Browse Communities
Recent discussions
Recent list activity
Popular groups
Most movies
Most talkative
Alien (1979)
Want to see it?
Seen it?
0
1
2
3
4
5
Rate this movie.
Buy it now on DVD
Starting at $10.59
Want to buy it?
Write a review
Discuss it
Add to lists
Recommend it
Get recommendations
Watch trailer
Rent it, watch it, find it
Advertisement
Synopsis & reviews
Related movies
Cast & crew
Buy it on DVD
Synopsis
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a
Jaws
-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in
Ridley Scott
's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the
Nostromo's
crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (
Tom Skerritt
) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (
John Hurt
). Over the objections of Ripley (
Sigourney Weaver
), science officer Ash (
Ian Holm
) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
Cast
Veronica Cartwright
Lambert
Ian Holm
Ash
John Hurt
Kane
Yaphet Kotto
Parker
Tom Skerritt
Dallas
Harry Dean Stanton
Brett
Sigourney Weaver
Ellen Ripley
Production Crew
Leslie Dilley
Art Director
Roger Christian
Art Director
Adrian Biddle
Camera Operator
Mary Goldberg
Casting
Mary Selway
Casting
Derek Vanlint
Cinematographer
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer (Music Score)
Lionel Newman
Conductor
John Mollo
Costume Designer
Roger Dicken
Costume Designer
H.R. Giger
Creature Design
Ridley Scott
Director
Peter Weatherly
Editor
Terry Rawlings
Editor
Ronald Shusett
Executive Producer
Howard Hanson
Featured Music
Paul Ibbetson
First Assistant Director
Martin Bower
Model Effects Supervisor
Lionel Newman
Musical Direction/Supervision
David Giler
Producer
Gordon Carroll
Producer
Walter Hill
Producer
Anton Furst
Production Designer
Leslie Dilley
Production Designer
Michael Seymour
Production Designer
Dan O'Bannon
Screen Story
Ronald Shusett
Screen Story
Dan O'Bannon
Screenwriter
Ian Whittaker
Set Designer
Bernard Lodge
Special Effects
Brian Johnson
Special Effects
Carlo Rambaldi
Special Effects
Nick Allder
Special Effects
Year: 1979
Runtime: 117
Country: UK
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature
Genre
Horror
Science Fiction
Color type
Eastmancolor
Sound
Dolby
Produced by
20th Century Fox
Brandywine
Release
October 29, 2003 (USA - Re-release)
Privacy
Safety
Legal
Report bad behavior
© 2008 Spout LLC. Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide.