1979 · sci-fi · horror
Alien
Directed by Ridley Scott1h 57m1979
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.
Our read: Alien (1979) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive sci-fi · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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