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created on: 15/01/2015
by: Nathalie (5022)
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ALIEN
IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
Movie Genre :
Horror
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Sci-Fi
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Color & sound :
Color
Originally released :
1979
Language - Spoken :
English
Rating :
R – Restricted
Running time :
116
Movie credits (on artwork) :
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Actor : Ian Holm
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Actor : John Hurt
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Actor : Tom Skerritt
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Actor : Yaphet Kotto
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Directed By : Ridley Scott
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Executive Producer : Ronald Shusett
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Music By : Jerry Goldsmith
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Producer : David Giler
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Producer : Gordon Carroll
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Producer : Walter Hill
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Story By : Dan O'Bannon
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Presented By : Twentieth Century Fox
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Awards:
BAFTA Best Production Design
BAFTA Best Sound
Oscar™ Best Visual Effects
End credits (not on artwork) :
Art Director : Leslie Dilley [Les Dilley]
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Art Director : Roger Christian
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Casting By [USA] : Mary Goldberg
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Casting By [UK] : Mary Selway
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Costume Design By : John Mollo
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Director Of Photography : Derek Vanlint
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Film Editing By [Director's Cut] : David Crowther
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Film Editing By : Peter Weatherley
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Film Editing By : Terry Rawlings
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Production Design By : Michael Seymour
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Description (by producer & GT in English only) :
When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts.
And so the horror begins - a horror which will end the lives of six crewmembers and alter the life of the seventh forever.
Sigourney Weaver stars as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in one of the most suspenseful and powerful science fiction films of all time.
Comments & Reviews :
Posted by miggyluv (7) on november 29, 2018
Still makes you jump. That darn cat! 10/10
Posted by george.schmidt (1) on september 30, 2016
Ridley Scott's genuinely scary and shockingly violent sci-fi masterpiece that re-created terror in the genre and spawned a zillion rip-offs. " In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" was the film's tag-line and appropriately so: a space mission picks up an alien hitchhiker in deep space after being duped into tracing a distress signal and end up with several bloody deaths and one nasty monster. Spooky production values (which deservedly copped an Oscar for Best Visual Effects) and stunning creature inspired by artist HR Giger. Weaver is memorable in her breakthrough performance as is the alien's first appearance a la Hurt's exploding chest! **noteworthy: this film was actually inspired by a 1958 sci-fi B-movie, "It! The Terrror From Beyond Space"
Posted by DaveB. (6) on november 12, 2015
Widely regarded as a classic of both the horror and sci-fi genres, Alien is an incredibly dark film, in which director Ridley Scott weaves an atmosphere of isolation and dread that is all-consuming.

After spending months in the outer reaches of space, the company-owned mining barge the Nostromo is finally on its way back to earth. Long before arriving home, however, the crew is awakened from its hibernation by the ship’s computer, which has picked up a distress call emanating from a nearby planet. Though unsure of what they'll find, Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt) leaves Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in command and leads a rescue team to the surface. Once there, Dallas and the others discover an abandoned ship, which obviously crash-landed many years ago, and is now home to hundreds of strange, plant-like pods. Before they get a chance to investigate any further, one of the pods unleashes a creature that attaches itself to the face of crewman Kane (John Hurt). Kane is immediately taken back to the ship, where science officer Ash (Ian Holm) attempts to save him from the unknown intruder. But the damage has been done, and soon a deadly monster is loose on the Nostromo, threatening the lives of all on board.

Yes, Alien is well acted; Sigourney Weaver is impressive in her star-making turn as Ripley, the rugged second-in-command who initially plays everything by the book. Yes, the special effects are magnificent; the alien creature, which Scott reveals ever so slowly throughout the film, is pretty damned alarming. But what stayed with me long after Alien ended was its brooding ambiance, enhanced at all times by the movie's central location: the crumbling Nostromo spacecraft, whose narrow corridors and dark passageways prove downright claustrophobic. This, combined with a general feeling of separation that gradually settles over everyone on board, reminds us the Nostromo, aside from falling apart, is also too far from earth to call for help. Director Scott sets the perfect mood right at the outset, taking us on a tour of the ship before the crew awakens from its hibernation, the ominous score of Jerry Goldsmith, occasionally interrupted by the clanking of machinery, cluing us in that the Nostromo won’t be anything like the pristine spaceships found in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In fact, this is the last place you want to be with a carnivorous alien on the loose.

As frightening as the creature is in Alien, it is doubly scary lurking around on the Nostromo. Not only did the film introduce us to one of the cinema’s most memorable monsters, it put it on a ship that itself managed to give us the creeps.

Rating:

9,80

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Submitted by : Nathalie (5022)
on : 15/01/2015
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Last updated on: 13/07/2018