Alien

Alien

117 mins | Science Fiction, Horror | May 25, 1979

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Alien

117 mins | Science Fiction, Horror | May 25, 1979

Alien
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
IMDb rating 8.5
Producers Brandywine Productions Ltd., Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions
Original title Alien
Directors Bob Jordan, Steve Harding, Julian Wall, Raymond Becket, Kay Fenton, Paul Ibbetson, Ridley Scott
Writers Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

Cast

Tom Skerritt

as Dallas

Sigourney Weaver

as Ripley

Veronica Cartwright

as Lambert

John Hurt

as Kane

Ian Holm

as Ash

Yaphet Kotto

as Parker

Bolaji Badejo

as Alien

Helen Horton

as Mother (voice)