Alien

Alien

8.2IMDb Score
Released:1979-05-25
Duration:117 min
Director:Ridley Scott
Actors:Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
Production:Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions

Overview:

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.

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