During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Title | Alien |
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Year | 1979 |
Genre | Horror, Science Fiction |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | 20th Century Fox, Brandywine Productions |
Cast | Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm |
Crew | Ridley Scott (Director), Gordon Carroll (Producer), David Giler (Producer), Walter Hill (Producer), Ronald Shusett (Executive Producer), Jerry Goldsmith (Original Music Composer) |
Keyword | android, spacecraft, space marine, biology, dystopia, countdown, space suit, beheading, space travel, cowardice, alien, space, female protagonist, parasite, space opera, cosmos, xenomorph |
Release | May 25, 1979 |
Runtime | 117 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 8.20 / 10 by 14,737 users |
Popularity | 213 |
Budget | 11,000,000 |
Revenue | 104,931,801 |
Language | English, Español |