"In space, no one can hear you
scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare
when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi/horror classic.
On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken
up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress
signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas (Tom Skerritt)'s rescue team
discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a
face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John
Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash
(Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches
itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's
stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas
and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a
protector in the nefarious Company.| Tom Skerritt | Dallas |
| Sigourney Weaver | Ellen Ripley |
| Yaphet Kotto | Parker |
| Veronica Cartwright | Lambert |
| Harry Dean Stanton | Brett |
| John Hurt | Kane |
| Ian Holm | Ash |
| Helen Horton | Mother [Voice] |
| Bolaji Badejo | Alien |
Genre/Type - Horror, Science Fiction, Monster Film, Sci-Fi Horror
Produced by - 20th Century Fox / Brandywine
Release - May 25, 1979 (USA) / Oct 29, 2003 (USA- Re-release)
Released by - 20th Century Fox
Running time - 124 min.
Hollow Man (2000, Paul Verhoeven)
The Terror Within (1988, Thierry Notz)
Within the Rock (1996, Gary J. Tunnicliffe)
Pitch Black (2000, David N. Twohy)
Stargate (1994, Roland Emmerich)
Dark Breed (1996, Richard Pepin)
The Thing (1951, Christian Nyby)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
is followed by: Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
is related to: Dark Star (1974, John Carpenter)
Alien vs. Predator (2004, Paul W.S. Anderson)