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
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:Michael Seymour (Production Design), Roger Christian (Art Direction), Ronald Shusett (Executive Producer), Brian Johnson (Special Effects), Mary Goldberg (Casting), Ian Whittaker (Set Decoration)
Keyword:android, spacecraft, space marine, biology, dystopia, countdown, space suit, beheading, space travel, cowardice, alien, space, female protagonist, parasite, space opera, cosmos
Release: May 25, 1979
Runtime: 117 minutes
IMDb: 8.164 / 10 by 15362 users
Popularity: 19.4186
Budget: $11000000
Revenue: $104931801
Language: English, Español
