One of the greatest films ever made

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2018)

In 1979 a friend of mine telephoned to say we should go and see this newly released film he had heard about. So we turned up in a barn of an auditorium. There was one other person there.
What followed for us, and for cinema, was one of the greatest movie experiences of all time. Rarely has a director built tension so effectively, so dramatically and with such polish as Ridley Scott in Alien.
I will add no more, in case of spoilers. But if for some reason you have never seen this film then turn down the lights, turn up the volume and prepared to be terrified! I was just 15 on that day when we first watched it. When the final credits rolled we knew, absolutely knew, that we had just witnessed was one of the classic films in cinema history.
Absolute genius.