Alien # 92 of 101 Great Films

# 92
1979
Alien
Directed by Ridley Scott
USA

I like horror movies.
I like Science Fiction films and I dig monster movies.
I enjoy the great ones, the good ones, the bad ones, and the silly ones.
I don’t like the mean spirited ones, which seems to be all they make nowadays, but Alien isn’t that; It’s a damn good monster film.
A damn good SiFi, and one of a few first-class horror films.

“In space no one can hear you scream.”

Dan  O'Bannon

Written by Dan O’Bannon,

Ridley Scott

produced by action director Walter Hill, and directed by Ridley Scott, add to those 3 creative giants one really disturbed artist, H.R. Giger and you have a totally unique film in a very structure genre;

1st: the cast is older than most for films like this, this is not a teen movie.

Two- Alien is atmospheric, nerve wracking, with a great pace, not the 100 mile an hour quick edit flicks,
but a slow boiling creepy and very scaring film.


Three-, it has a feeling of class, which horror films never do, the protagonist are normal everyday workers just trying to survive, not super heroes that defy logic to defeat the beast, which also makes the horror more intense and real. The sense of class has been seen in European films, but not in but a few America films and certainly not in horror films, at its core Alien is a story about the ruling class-via the company- exploiting the workers.

Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton

But maybe the biggest ploy in the film
is the fact that the hero is a woman,
the last “man” standing,
and not the helpless victim that usually saturate this genre.






Having just given you 4 reason why this is a unique adventure, at its heart it is an Agatha Christie spooky manor who done it.
However you want to diagnose this film, it is one damn fine piece of work.

and everyone heard me scream. 

this video exhibit, is a combo of several works,
The making of Alien, a bonus feature on the Dvd release of Alien.
And excerpts were used from the American Film Institute’s interviews with key players from the film.

Video exhibit for # 92 of 100 Great films: Alien
Remember Alien is available on DvD & Blue ray
Also if you have an independent movie house near you suggest to them to bring Alien back to the big screen.