Review of Alien (1979) by Stephenj2010 — 12 Jun 2020

''Alien'' (1979) is really is the masterpiece of the cinema, it's the best sci-fi horror movie of the 1970s. The idea of turning a Sci-fi movie adding horror stuff is very, VERY scary to the sci-fi fans and Star Wars as well. The idea of a space film about a killer Alien creature named Xenomorph goes inside of the spaceship named Nostromo and finding to kill the Xenomorph before the Xenomorph kills everyone on the ship at the time is very original. It has memorable and iconic characters, such as Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver. The Alien (later known as the "Xenomorph") itself also became an iconic movie monster. Notably, the Xenomorph was designed and created to convey a fear of rape; it succeeded, it has amazing designs courtesy of Ron Cobb, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Chris Foss, who designed the movie's human aspects, such as the space suits and the Nostromo itself, and the late H.R. Giger, who designed the movie's alien aspects, which succeeds at being very disturbing and helped popularize the artist. Noteworthy is that Foss, Giger, Moebius, and O'Bannon had previously worked on Alejandro Jodorowsky's canceled film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. It has a lot of scary scenes that became iconic, notably the chestburster scene. The filming of this scene actually terrified the actors; Veronica Cartwright's reactions were genuine. Ripley is pretty much a likable character, which she'll go on even more likable character in Aliens (1986). The soundtrack was scary, and it's amazing. And it's sequel, Aliens, which it's even more awesome.

By the way, It's still amazing sci-fi horror movie of all time.