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Alien (1979) Review

By David Day on July 29, 2020 6

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Alien is an incredible movie that did amazing things for horror, sci-fi, and cinema as a whole. It imagined an incredible amount of very real-seeming possibilities for space travel and contact with other life forms that impresses me to this day despite being 41 years old.

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Synopsis

Alien is the story of a deep-space commercial towing vehicle, named Nostromo, and it’s crew who are bringing a tremendous amount of ore back to earth. 

There are seven crewmembers and they seem to be mostly blue collar folk, with the exception of the Chief Science Officer, Ash.

They are awoken from stasis following receiving a transmission from a nearby planet and are bound by their contract with “the company” to check it out. 

They discover some eggs near a spaceship crash-site and end up with more alien than they bargained for!

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Review

Alien is one of the most impressive pieces of cinema in history. It set the bar so high for horror and sci-fi that I think it’s still the apex of both. 

Every single aspect of this movie is carefully thought-out and crafted to the highest of standards.

The setting is bleak and cold, very much unlike how space is typically portrayed today, with Guardians galavanting around galaxies and such. It’s completely unforgiving and inhospitable in almost every single way. 

With Dan O’Bannon writing the story and screenplay and Ridley Scott at the helm as the director, this is one of the most accurate and impressive imaginings of the far-flung future as I can find, with much of the tech they dreamed about being in use today. 

The xenomorph is, without a doubt, the coolest and most insane diabolic biological lifeform ever dreamed up. While everyone is very familiar with the xenomorphs at this point, you don’t get to see it almost at all in this movie, even though it seems like you do.

This may be my favorite movie of all time, and is definitely the best horror movie in my book. 

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I mean, someone MIGHT be able to hear you scream if they were really close…

Score

10/10

Final Recommendation

If you don’t have a massive boner during your viewing of Alien, I don’t want to know you. This is a classic that trumps most classics, and should be seen by everyone within the sound of my voice and beyond.

About David Day

It goes without saying that I enjoy horror movies. I also like to run, hike, read (comics, fiction, sci-fi, fantasy), write, and spend time with my family. I am usually pretty direct and find that honesty and kindness are what is most important to me. Along with Bryce, I am a co-founder of Horror Movie Talk.

If you want to know more about my taste in horror movies, checkout my about page or listen to episode 14: "The Horrific Beginnings of Horror Movie Talk"

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Comments

  1. B1GGN says

    July 29, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    OK HERE’S THE REAL DEAL, IF ALIEN ISN’T A HORROR MOVIE THEN WHY DID YOU SCMUCKS REVIEW IT?????

    Reply
    • David Day says

      July 29, 2020 at 9:49 pm

      To be fair to Bruce, he and Marc both admit it’s a horror. They just think it’s a horror second and sci fi first.

      Reply
  2. OZena says

    September 2, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    Not a lot to say here. David nailed it. It is horror, it is sci-fi. Great episode across the board but I mostly loved the part of the episode where you 3 broke down the sci-fi cleanliness timeline. 2001 being sterile with purell stations, Star Wars being lived in but bar soap provided & Alien having been ooold used & covered in grease with limited coarse powder soap.

    Reply

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