Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- android
- spacecraft
- space marine
- biology
- dystopia
- countdown
- space suit
- beheading
- space travel
- cowardice
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- John Hurt — Kane
- Ian Holm — Ash
- Yaphet Kotto — Parker
- Bolaji Badejo — Alien
- Helen Horton — Mother (voice)
- Directed
- Ridley Scott
- Written
- Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon
Production
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 16,675 ratings
- Studio
- Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1979 · You’re hereAlien
Where it starts.
Aliens
1986
Alien³
1992
Alien Resurrection
1997
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
