Alien

Theatrical Release Date: 1979 05 25 (USA) / 2003 10 29 (USA - Rerelease) / 2013 05 08 (USA - Rerelease)

UPC: 086162000751

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Gore, Sci-Fi Violence]

Summary: "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's (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, Rovi

Category: Science Fiction

Awards: Best Art Direction – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Audio commentary by Ridley Scott
Deleted scenes
Artwork and photo galleries
Original storyboards
Alternate music track

Alien

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/02/2007

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 116 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Scene Selection
1. Main Titles [2:20]
2. Early to Rise [2:20]
3. Rough Landing [4:34]
4. Walking Distance [3:29]
5. Dead a Long Time [3:32]
6. Eggs or Something [4:15]
7. A Wonderful Defense Mechanism [3:18]
8. Missing a Guest [4:14]
9. Taking Off [2:23]
10. Last Supper [:34]
11. Seek and Destroy [5:11]
12. "Here Kitty" [:25]
13. No Blood, No Dallas [9:14]
14. A Confrontation with Ash [:25]
15. Priority One [4:30]
16. Scared Stiff [2:40]
17. Destruct System Activated [1:01]
18. T Minus Thirty Seconds [3:27]
19. The Last Survivors [5:27]
20. End Titles [7:28]

Lucia Bozzola

Combining science fiction with horror, Swiss artist H.R. Giger's alien design and Carlo Rambaldi's visual effects creepily meld technology with corporeality, creating a claustrophobic environment that is coldly mechanical yet horribly anthropomorphized, like the metallic monster itself. Director Ridley Scott keeps the alien out of full view, hiding it in the dark or camouflaging it in the workings of the Nostromo. Signs of '70s cultural upheaval permeate Alien's future world, from the relationship between corporate capitalism and rapacious monstrosity to the heterogeneous crew and Ripley's forceful horror heroine. The intense frights and gross-outs, however, are credited with making Alien one of the biggest hits of 1979 (it premiered on the two-year anniversary of Star Wars); Giger, Rambaldi, et al. won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Alien went on to spawn three genre-bending sequels (and reconditioned Ripleys): exceptional '80s actioner Aliens (1986), dark prison drama Alien 3 (1992), and exotically grotesque Alien Resurrection (1997). With its atmospheric isolation, implacable monster, and whiff of social conscience, Alien stands as one of the more thoughtful yet utterly terrifying horror films of the 1970s. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Helen Horton  Actor 
Bolaji Badejo  Actor 
Gordon Carroll  Producer 
David Giler  Producer 
Jerry Goldsmith  Composer (Music Score) 
Walter Hill  Producer 
Dan O'Bannon  Screenwriter 
Ridley Scott  Director 
Ronald Shusett  Executive Producer 
Tom Skerritt  Actor 
Sigourney Weaver  Actor 
Veronica Cartwright  Actor 
Yaphet Kotto  Actor 
Harry Dean Stanton  Actor 
John Hurt  Actor 
Ian Holm  Actor 

Country: UK,USA