After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely ... Read allAfter a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
- Director
- Writers
- Dan O'Bannon(screenplay by)
- Ronald Shusett(story by)
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- Dan O'Bannon(screenplay by)
- Ronald Shusett(story by)
- Stars
- Won 1 Oscar
- 18 wins & 22 nominations total
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- Director
- Writers
- Dan O'Bannon(screenplay by) (story by)
- Ronald Shusett(story by)
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
- Taglines
- In space no one can hear you scream.
- Genres
- Certificate
- K-16
- Parents guide
Did you know
- Goofs(at around 1h 35 mins) A crewman with a black panel of some kind is visible through the smoke as Ripley runs through the corridors at the end of the film.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Ripley: Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
[to Jonesy the cat]
Ripley: Come on, cat.
- Crazy creditsThe title of the movie is slowly created one line at a time at the top of the screen during the opening credits, starting out with the I, then the slash in A and the backslash in N, and then the vertical lines in L and E (so it looks like / I I I \). After that, the ensuing lines of each letter are added slowly one at a time until the title is fully visible.
- Alternate versionsIn April of 2019 Ridley Scott re-released Alien in 4K HDR for both the Theatrical version and the Director's Cut. The biggest changes to the film made were to the Director's Cut. The Cocoon scene with Dallas was omitted, along with various cuts and additional scenes added in for pacing purposes. For example, the new Directors cut includes the Dallas with Mother scene in which Dallas is informed of his fate which was not in the original 2003 Director's Cut.. Since the re-release of Alien in 4K it has been unclear why Scott continued to market this cut as the "2003" version when in fact it should be labeled on the cover as the "2019" Directors Cut considering the gross amount of previous scenes omitted from the '03 version and the changes made in the new cut.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bride of Monster Mania (2000)
- Pluto-3
- Aug 14, 1998
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Alien - den 8. passageraren
- Filming locations
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $81,900,459
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,527,881
- May 28, 1979
- Gross worldwide
- $106,285,522
- Runtime
- 1h 57min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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