Arguably The Best Sci-Fi Horror Ever Made.

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2014)

I am 22 and what can I say about this movie? If there's anything I can say, "Alien" is the film I ask every adult about how they felt at the time of the movies release. My dad went to go see it and reminds me it was one of his fondest memories as a moviegoer. Based on the highly sexualised pieces by surrealist H.R Giger. He & Ridley Scott have arguably created science fiction's greatest villain, in a movie series that has been adapted to comics, video games etc. The list goes on.
Workers of the spaceship "Nostromo", pick up a distress signal on a nearby planet and reluctantly respond. One unlucky worker (Lets face it) ends up raped via a strange species wrapped tight around his face, and removal seems futile as the creatures blood is highly corrosive. Eventually it falls off and everything seems back to normal, then the stuff of your deepest nightmares happen and suddenly your trapped in a cage with a savage life form.
Still, John Hurt's death is the highlight of the movie, if not one of the most iconic in all of cinema. Hilarious it is to know, that none of the actors knew what was going to happen. Hurt, Ian Holm and of course Sigourney Weaver deliver their career best performances.
And of course, I want to say how this movie personally affects me. The "Alien" franchise was one of the last movie serials me and my family all viewed together, before various members went off to start their own families (Though we started with "Aliens", it didn't matter). After finally viewing "Alien" and seeing how Ridley created a movie set in tight corridors where the walls hiss and bellow smoke at you, nothing and nobody was safe. Ripley is without doubt cinemas greatest heroine and her fears become yours, rarely do movies give their characters such engrossing traits.
Final Verdict: Alien only gets better with age and viewing. Utterly fantastic cinema you should be watching, as there will never be anything like it. 10/10. Do yourself a favour and check out the early trailers.