Richard: Then Ridley [Scott] was doing this movie called Alien that was going to be a B-movie for Fox — he didn’t know how big it would be. Ridley had come out of British advertising and his work looked beautiful but he’d had no success with it. How did you go about designing...
When Alien was released in 1979, there was a great deal of comment about the feminism of having Ripley being the heroic, surviving, and triumphant character. The prospect of some kind of political moral to the story, however, was not attractive to me, and I did not see the movie. ...
, becoming a pastiche of the franchise as a whole. it’s a little overindulgent, maybe, full of easter eggs and callbacks—there are electric prods like the one wielded by harry dean stanton in alien ; a flutter of the prometheus score serves as a cue to remember that movie—while ...
the Alien itself remains the scariest creature in cinema history and its dual mouths are still inspired. H.R. Giger created a world we had never seen before, with his unique visual style, only amplified by director Ridley Scott’s own visuals, which is what really makes the movie the class...
In space, no one can hear you scream...and it’s game over, man. Released in 1979, Alien was an old-school straight-up horror movie that brought a new kind of monster to the big screen. It’s sequel, released in 1986, brought a big-time action element, a
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13. Alien (1979) The movie: Arguably one of the best alien movies ever made also just happens to be one of the greatest horror movies too. It doesn't seem fair, does it? The original Alien from Ridley Scott sends the crew of the Nostromo to investigate a distress call from an abandon...
Coming up with a list of the best horror movies of all time is a good way to weed out the scary movie veterans from the scaredy cats. You can spot 'em every time a jump scare happens, or a devil-possessed girl crab walks upstairs, or an alien missiles out of some poor sucker's ...
The plot may be one “Alien” cliche after another, but the physical production is solid. Directed and co-written by Fede Alvarez, this is a teens-vs-aliens movie. On a mining planet a handful of wage slaves plot to hijack an abandoned spaceship and get the hell out of Dodge. What ...
2) Alien (1979) It's not easy to make a film that can rank among the best in both the horror genre and the world of science fiction, but Scott and writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett make it look easy. It wasn't simple to wrangle everything together on a relatively tight budge...