Alien (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott
“In space no one can hear you scream.”
Horror, Science Fiction · 1h 57m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Screenplay
- Dan O'Bannon
- Director of Photography
- Derek Vanlint
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Editor
- Peter Weatherley, Terry Rawlings
- Producer
- Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Details
- Release date
- 1979-05-25
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America, United Kingdom
- Production
- Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Box office
- $104,931,801
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