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Alien (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Sigourney
Weaver, Tom Skeritt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Harry
Dean Stanton, John Hurt.
In deep space, the
crew of the mining ship Nostromo are awakened by the ships computer
to respond to an automated distress signal. The ship has adjusted course
to rendevouz with the signal, much to the dismay of the crew. After
landing on a barren planet, Warrant Officer Ripley works to decipher
the transmission and discovers that the signal is actually a warning,
not an SOS. But it is too late to turn back as three members of the
crew have already left to investigate the derelict ship. The terror
begins when Kane encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An
organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to his face,
causing him to fall into a coma. Because of the facehugger's self-defenses
(acid blood and a tail constricting Kane's neck), the crew of the Nostromo
cannot remove it without also killing Kane.
As the crew
searches for a way to save Kane, the facehugger dies and Kane wakes
up, feeling fine. He is brought out of isolation and the crew soon makes
another horrifying discovery - the lifeform they've found breeds within
a human host. The facehugger deposited some kind of embryo inside of
Kane. During his first dinner after this ordeal, Kane begins convulsing
and heaving uncontrollably. The crew struggle to hold him down, and
suddenly, the young alien bursts out of his chest and scuttles off and
hides in the Nostromo where it continues to develop. As the crew attempts
to hunt it down, it in turn hunts them. While searching for a safe escape,
Ripley discovers the Company's secret plans to bring the alien to Earth
and that Ash, the Nostromo's Science Officer, is willing to kill his
fellow crewmates to achieve this goal. Things turn grim, and the alien
manages to dispatch the whole crew, save Ripley, who sets the ship to
self destruct thinking this the only means to kill the alien. She espaces
just in time on the lifepod, Narcissus...only to discover, the alien
has boarded it along with her. She eventually blasts it out into space
through the airlock.
What a horrific roller coaster ride this movie
is! It starts off slow, but once they bring Kane back aboard ship...things
really get creepy. The alien design work done by H.R. Geiger is outstanding.
He puts his familiar biomechanic style into the alien design, which
works to terrifying effect. This movie truly scared the bejesus out
of me. The atmosphere, the pacing, the cinematography and direction,
the sets and setpieces and the characters all are the finest examples
of great filmmaking and a great screenplay! The atmosphere in this film
is as close to cosmic horror I can think of. An alien being that has
no feelings for humanity, no remorse, no emotions...just a drive to
survive, at any cost.
alien1.wav Kane inspects what appears to be an egg
sack and is describing what he is seeing to Ash back aboard the Nostromo.
alien2.wav Ripley expresses some concern after the
ships computer decifers the SOS
alien3.wav Ripley doesn't like the idea of examining
the dead face hugger.
alien4.wav Ships Engineer Parker comments on the
face hugger.
alien5.wav Mothers warning that the ship is about to self
destruct
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