In space no one can hear you scream....of pleasure that is

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2003)

ALIEN reaches at least the Top 20 of movies I've ever seen. It's a tight, controlled story about a crew being terrorised by an unknown specie. Sigourney Weaver is one of the seven members of the spaceship named Nostromo, a cargo-ship that spends most of its time flying from planet to planet. Nostromo's cold, empty halls and corridors makes the movie's atmosphere lost and definite, as we (and the crew) knows that they're no longer alone. Ridley Scott directs the movie with such an easy hand, he doesn't do anything unexpected, he just makes the movie as rock solid as a science fiction thriller will ever be. The alien itself, the movie's main character, is shockingly revealed half way through the movie as Nostromo's captain Dallas encounters the vicious creature in a one-way-ticket situation, and the alien is without doubt one of the most impressive and greatly made monsters in movie history. ALIEN is a classic, a pioneer in horror movie making.