Saw this one over 20 years past release date

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2004)

As a young film fan, I have to hit my local video store to rent the classic films that I missed out on. Alien was one of them, and I have to say that this film is a classic. A B-movie script, a B-movie cast with the rich quality of an A-movie.
**SPOILER** A team of 7 space crew members respond to a possible SOS and investigate a creepy planet. After an unknown species attacks a crew member and subsequently kills him in the most vicious fashion, an unknown creature, presumably an alien, is on the loose and the crew must do everything to kill it to survive. **END SPOILER**
Director Ridley Scott brings a sense of Hitchcock to the epitome of science fiction and the start of the biggest sci-fi film series in history.
This is beyond scary, visually effective, with a haunting score and a cast of nobodies that soon became somebodies, especially Sigourney Weaver, who makes her biggest film debut.
Now, I am not a big horror or science fiction film fan, but I have to say that I love the Alien series, especially the first two films. I think horror and sci-fi fans or even dramatic film fans will enjoy this one.
9/10