Horror

Alien

A commercial starship crew answers a mysterious signal on the journey home and brings an unknown organism aboard, turning the ship's industrial corridors into a sealed, hostile maze far from any possible help.

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Year: 1979
Runtime: 116 min
Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott fuses exacting industrial production design, patient dread, and a resilient ensemble into a space-horror benchmark whose tactile world makes every quiet mechanical sound feel dangerous.

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