
Feature film — 1979
Alien (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.
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A high-signal pick with 17,069 votes.
Brandywine Productions / Twentieth Century-Fox Productions / Ronald Shusett Productions
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Director: Ridley Scott
On screen
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Harry Dean Stanton
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John Hurt
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Ian Holm
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