"In space, no one can hear you scream."

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2010)

Astronauts returning to Earth visit an apparently dead planet and are infected by a violent being with unpredictable behaviour patterns, which starts to eliminate them one by one.
Alien is one of director Ridley Scott's career highlights: a terrific-looking, genuinely scary story in a claustrophobic space. It's both a horror flick and a science-fiction B-movie, set in space. The moment when the legendary H.R. Giger's creature first makes its appearance is a classic film moment. Alien has remained highly praised in subsequent decades, being inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2002 for historical preservation as a film which is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".