ALIEN (1979) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Ridley Scott
Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, John Hurt,
Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright
While investigating a mysterious radio signal in another solar system, the crew of a space freighter takes on an unwelcome stowaway - a hideous alien organism that hides out in the ship's ventilation system. Infinitely resilient and virtually unkillable, it begins to pick off its fellow passengers one by one. This is the landmark science fiction/horror movie that introduced both H.R. Giger's otherworldly alien designs and Sigourney Weaver's gutsy, space-age heroine, Ripley. It's about as scary as monster movies get, even if you can't always figure out why otherwise sensible characters keep risking their lives to go off alone after the ship's pet cat.
H.R. Giger
(1940-2014)
