Alien

Year:	1979
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Horror, Science Fiction
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.7 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	29 Have Seen


Director	Ridley Scott
Selected Cast	Tom Skerritt as Dallas
	Sigourney Weaver as Ripley
	Veronica Cartwright as Lambert
	Harry Dean Stanton as Brett
	John Hurt as Kane
	Ian Holm as Ash
	Yaphet Kotto as Parker
Writer	Alan Dean Foster

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Alien - 20th Century Fox - UK (2003)

DVD

Alien - 20th Century Fox - UK (2000)

VHS

Alien - Magnetic Video Corporation - USA (1980)

VHS

Alien - 20th Century Fox - Ireland (1997)

DVD

Alien - 20th Century Fox - Sweden

Blu-ray

Alien - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2019)

Multi-Format

Alien - 20th Century Fox - UK (2019)

DVD

Alien - 20th Century Fox - Australia (2000)

DVD

Alien - 20th Century Fox - USA (1999)

LaserDisc

Alien - Fox Video - USA (1992)

Blu-ray

Alien Anthology - 20th Century Fox - Australia (2011)

DVD

Alien Predator Total Destruction - 20th Century Fox - Europe (2008)

DVD Box Set

Alien Quadrilogy - 20th Century Fox - UK (2010)

DVD Box Set

Alien • Predator: Total Destruction Collection - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2008)

VHS Box Set

Alien Saga - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (1997)

DVD Box Set

The Alien Legacy - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2000)

DVD Box Set

Alien Quadrilogy - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2003)

DVD Box Set

Alien Collection - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2008)

DVD Box Set

Alien Collection - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2006)

Blu-ray Box Set

Alien Anthology - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2010)

Blu-ray Box Set

Alien Anthology - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2014)

Blu-ray Box Set

Prometheus To Alien: The Evolution - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2012)

Blu-ray Box Set

Alien / AVP / Predator: The Ultimate Annihilation: Nine Movie Collection - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2011)

VHS Box Set

Alien Trilogy - 20th Century Fox - UK (1993)

DVD

Alien Quadrilogy - 20th Century Fox - USA (2014)

DVD Box Set

Alien Quadrilogy - 20th Century Fox - USA (2003)

DVD Box Set

The Alien Legacy - 20th Century Fox - USA (1999)

DVD

Alien:O 8º Passageiro - Pris Audiovisuais - Portugal (2012)

Blu-ray Box Set

Alien Anthology - 20th Century Fox - UK (2012)

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 10th Dec 2022		The simple reason why subsequent instalments in this franchise fail to matchthe original concept is actually right there in the title: ALIEN That is to say: Unknown, strange, not within your experience or understanding. From this, the horror, and terror is born, and is it's essence... how the film acts on your imagination. Tapping to that same primitive psychology that anyone who has walked through the woods on a pitch black moonless night has experienced, where the darkness is so thick it presses close in on your very eyeballs... devoid of information, the human mind begins to cast shapes into this unknown, to account for what may be there, as part of our basic survival kit... ...imagining the worst, gives a better chance of surviving. Using that in film, can therefore evoke the terror in the audience. ...That is, unless you make more movies, each one, explaining a little more of, and showing a little more of the Alien and that which is alien about it (backstory and so on). Doesn't it stand to reason then, that the more you familiarise the audience with it, the less *alien* it becomes, horrible though the creature may still be? To mind mind, the creature only serves to illustrate the meaning of that word and explore the concept it concerns.



Alex Biasi 13th Aug 2021		Rated 10/10 Great science fiction horror! 10/10 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 26th Sep 2020



cannyuk SUBS 20th May 2018



zabadak 26th Apr 2016		Rated 10/10 Once seen, never forgotten! It's hard to picture it now but the film's (oft-imitated) genius was to show the monster in gradual reveal, so that we saw only a very little of it at the start and then more and more, until the denouement, when HR Giger's awesome creation could be seen in full. Stunning piece of film-making! :happy: 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Monolith 10th Aug 2015		I'm quite glad to forget it, Aliens was the only one I watched more than once.



zabadak 10th Aug 2015		Moved to Review :happy:

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