Shakespeare and Hitchcock would have wept...

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2008)

Here is a movie that transcends both time and space. One thousand years from now, I will guarantee you, people in the next millennium will still be talking about this movie. ALIEN is SCIENCE FICTION, DRAMA, SUSPENSE and HORROR rolled into one masterpiece of celluloid. ALIEN has everything going for it - a great screenplay, direction, actors/actresses, special effects, score, and most of all, art direction, which I feel, is the BEST EVER in cinematic history. One of the BEST tag-lines in cinema: In space, where no one can hear you scream.
The movie begins with the gigantic, mining spaceship Nostromo. It is so Gothic in appearance. It is returning to Earth with twenty million tons of mineral ore. The crew of seven is awaken by the ships computer, MOTHER, and they discover an SOS beacon from a nearby planet. The crew reluctantly launches a rescue ship, the Narcissus, to the planet's surface. They discover the remains of a derelict alien spaceship. One of the crew members, Cain (John Hurt), decides to investigate and finds millions of alien eggs. The old saying "curiousity killed the cat" applies here (ironically, there is a mysterious cat named Jones on board with the crew). When Cain startles one of the eggs, a parasite bursts from its cocoon and clings to his face. The rescue team returns to the Nostromo and learns to their horror that the parasite has impregnated Cain with an alien life form. What follows is survival of the fittest for both humans and the alien.
A TOP NOTCH SCIENCE FICTION HORROR CLASSIC.
score: 10/10