Classic sci-fi horror at its best

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2017)

One of the most iconic sci-fi horror movies of all time, Alien is still an incredibly impressive film nearly forty years later. The crew of the Nostromo is returning home after a mining mission when they receive a distress call and the artificial intelligence onboard known as Mother decides that they should stop and investigate. The crew wakes up from cryo-sleep and investigates the strange planet from which the call came. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) realizes the call is a warning but already three crew members had left the ship to investigate the alien ship on the planet. On the alien ship is a fossilized life form with a hole in its chest.
Kane (John Hurt) peeks over a giant egg and a spider-like creature pops out and hugs his face. Dallas (Tom Skerritt) and Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) bring him back and try to take him back on their ship but Ripley stops them. The science officer Ash (Ian Holm) overrides Ripley and lets them back on the ship. They take Kane and his face-hugging alien to the medical bay but are unable to cut it off because it has acid for blood that melts through the ship. As Ash investigate the new creature, Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) work to repair the ship.
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