Alien
March 23rd 2011 23:54
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Dan O’Bannon (original title: Star Beast)
Production: USA
Year: 1979
Sub-genre tags: science fiction, alien monster, creature feature.
Tagline: In space no one can hear you scream.
Logline: In answering an apparent distress call the crew of a space freight ship inadvertently picks up a ferocious parasite that proceeds to kill them one by one.
Core cast: Sigourney Weaver (Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas), John Hurt (Kane), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), Yaphet Kotto (Parker), Veronica Cartright (Lambert), Ian Holm (Ash)
Memorable moment: After Dallas, Kane, and Lambert enter the strange derelict spacecraft they climb up onto a platform which is revealed to be an enormous phallic driving console with the huge corpse of the alien pilot fused into the machinery.
Curious Fact: The infamous “chestburster” scene was filmed in one take with four cameras, with the actors (apart from John Hurt) unaware they would be sprayed with blood and real animal guts, in order to elicit genuine reactions and expressions of horror.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: medium
Fear factor and/or frights: high
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): medium
Horrorphile’s two cents: It doesn’t get much better than Alien, for mood, tone, atmosphere, mise-en-scene, special effects, cinematography, music, acting. Even the pared-back dialogue never comes across as forced or risible … The emphasis on the visual narrative, the realism, the restraint in humour, these elements make the movie’s calibre like that of a full metal jacket; Alien kicks ass.
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