Aliens1986
Overall9.0
Fear7.0
Atmos8.0
Gore6.0
Alien
Alien
1979 · R · 1h 57m
Curator Score9.5/ 10
In space no one can hear you scream.
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- In theaters
- May 25, 1979
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Curator Certificate
9.5
Out of ten
Passed by one curator
Fear8.0
Gore6.0
Atmosphere10.0
Intensity8.0
Built on atmosphere.
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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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science-fictionhorrorthriller
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Details
Budget$11M
Box office$203.6M
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Starring
Tom Skerritt as Dallas · Sigourney Weaver as Ripley · Veronica Cartwright as Lambert · Harry Dean Stanton as Brett · John Hurt as Kane · Ian Holm as Ash · Yaphet Kotto as Parker · Bolaji Badejo as Alien
Production
Brandywine Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions
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