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Alien (1979) Rank 2 Reviews
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FireBlade Coffeehouse DVD Reviews
A classic space horror film directed by Ridley Scott and featuring a lot of design by H. R. Giger. The original tagline was âIn Space, No One Can Hear You Screamâ. Gigerâs alien did a pretty good job of making sure that in the movie theater, ...read the complete Alien movie review at FireBlade Coffeehouse DVD Reviews
Video Graveyard
1979 - 116m.
Crew of a spaceship intercepts a distress signal and set down on an unknown planet to investigate. One of the crew members is attacked and infected by a mysterious alien lifeform. After a small while guess what happens to come ...read the complete Alien movie review at Video Graveyard
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
At its most fundamental level, "Alien" is a movie about things that can jump out of the dark and kill you. It shares a kinship with the shark in "Jaws," Michael Myers in "Halloween," and assorted spiders, snakes, tarantulas and stalkers. Its most ...read the complete Alien movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Time Out
n the wake of the huge commercial success of Alien, almost all attention has perversely focused on the provenance of the script (was it a rip-off of It, the Terror from Beyond Space? Of Van Vogt's fiction? Was former John Carpenter collaborator Dan ...read the complete Alien movie review at Time Out
New York Times (Vincent Canby)
These things no longer surprise or tantalize us as they once did. In a very short time, science-fiction films have developed their own jargon that's now become a part of the grammar. ...read the complete Alien movie review at New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Prison Flicks
Appropriately, I have seen Alien3 on three separate occasions. The first was when the movie first came out in 1992. At the time, I didn't like it, perhaps because I was expected an Aliens-like actionfest. I found it slow and tedious. Then a few years ...read the complete Alien movie review at Prison Flicks
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