One of the best films of it's decade, or indeed any other.

Rating: 10/10 (29 February 2008)

With its influences in 50s creature features, Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett's "small Roger Corman movie" seemed an unlikely world-wide phenomenon.
But after Brandywine partners read and refined the script things started moving. Add a little corporate paranoia, a highly visual director, a Swiss manic depressive artist apparently obsessed with sex and death, and probably the best art design ever, at that time, and Fox had a hit on their hands.
The list of people responsible for this is long, the brilliant cast, David Giler and Walter Hill's revised script, Gordon Caroll's belief that within this monster feature chrysalis there was an A movie forming, O'Bannon's overseeing of the art department, including Ron Cobb, Chris Foss, Mobius and H.R. Giger, and Ridley Scott's masterful, almost documentary-like direction all contributed to one of the best films of it's decade, or indeed any other.
I feel privileged that I able to witness this in the cinema in 1979 and although the cinema has long gone, the memory of that first viewing remains.
It was and still is the best cinema experience of my life.