In space no one can hear you scream.
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
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- Body horror
- Graphic violence
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Character
Earnest, grave, intimate and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
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Cast
- Tom SkerrittDallas
- Sigourney WeaverRipley
- Veronica CartwrightLambert
- Harry Dean StantonBrett
- John HurtKane
- Ian HolmAsh
- Yaphet KottoParker
- Bolaji BadejoAlien
- Helen HortonMother (voice)
Crew
- Ridley ScottDirector
- Dan O'BannonScreenplay
- Derek VanlintDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Terry RawlingsEditor
- Peter WeatherleyEditor
- Walter HillProducer
- Gordon CarrollProducer
- David GilerProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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Alien³ 199273% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Night of the Living Dead 196871% alikeBoth earnest, grave, intimate.
Psycho 196069% alikeBoth earnest, grave, bleak.
The Exorcist 197369% alikeBoth earnest, grave, bleak.
Cat People 198268% alikeBoth earnest, grave, bleak.
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Kamaitachi no Yoru 199467% alikeGame · Both earnest, grave, intimate.
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