Review of Alien (1979) by Edward C — 30 Jun 2013

Alien(1979).

Starring:Tom Skerritt(Dallas),Sigourney Weaver(Ripley),Veronica Cartwright(Lambert),Yaphet Kotto(Parker),Harry Dean Staton(Brett),John Hurt(Kane),Ian Holm(Ash).

Written By:Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Directed By:Ridley Scott.

My Review.

Aw man I have been wanting to watch this movie for quite some time now, thank God they were giving it on Amc. This film is a horror gem that must be seen(I use to not consider this a horror movie cause it's Alien.) it is one of the greatest horror films of all time.

The Film Revolves around a crew on there way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. They Unleash a deadly Alien into their ship and must stay alive.

What I love about Alien is how the motion picture builds on it's opening shot like Star Wars(1977) where it shows you the bottom of the ship and then the inside and you hear nothing cause in star wars there's shooting going on but in this our characters in Hyper sleep.

One of the great strengths of Alien is its pacing. It takes its time. It waits. It allows silences. It suggests the enormity of the crew's discovery by building up to it with small steps:The interception of a signal. The descent to the extraterrestrial surface. The mainstroke of the surface murk through which crew member move, their helmet lights hardly penetrating the soup. This is a masterpiece of Action,Horror and Science fiction that must be seen.