Alien

Rating: 9/10 (25 June 2013)

The first few moments of this film are almost silent. The spaceship is slowly drifting back to Earth carrying twenty million tons of minerals ore. The crew is held in suspended animation for the long trip home, and we watch them wake up and stumble towards breakfast.
They haven't made it home yet. Instead, the ship's computer ("Mother") has woken them to offer assistance to a deep space distress signal. But they don't find anyone in need of help. Touching down on a barren planet the crew discovers the remains of a huge spaceship, with an alien pilot long dead and a horde of leathery eggs. Soon they've brought aboard a supremely lethal new life form, and it's not long before they're hunted down one by one.