A true sci-fi and horror masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (1 February 2016)

The film opens in the year 2122 AD, with the crew of seven members of the grimy, commercial space towing-freighter Nostromo being awakened from hyper sleep by the ship's main computer, nicknamed Mother. This is because they receive a transmission signal "of unknown origin" from a nearby planet and they decide to go investigate it. Capt. Dallas'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, one of the members of the crew. It contains little dialogue but with some very suspenseful, tension-filled moments, deliberately drawn out with slow pacing. It perfectly blends sci-fi, claustrophobic horror and body horror.