Alien
In space no one can hear you scream.
82%
1979
117 min
Released
HorrorScience Fiction
82%(16782 votes)
Movie Info
Release Date
May 25, 1979
Runtime
117 min
Status
Released
Budget
$11,000,000
Revenue
$104,931,801
Production Companies
Brandywine ProductionsTwentieth Century-Fox ProductionsRonald Shusett Productions
Overview
The story behind this cinematic experience
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.