Alien (2 Discs) 1979
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.
Special features include: Audio commentary by director, cast members, and others; Star beast : developing the story (featurette); The visualists : direction and design (featurette); Truckers in space : casting (featurette); Future tense : music and editing (featurette); Outward bound : visual effects (featurette); A nightmare fulfilled : reactions to the film (featurette); Fear of the unknown : Shepperton Studios, 1978 (featurette); The darkest reaches : Nostromo and Alien planet (featurette); The eighth passenger : creature design (featurette); The chestburster (multi-angle sequence); Sigourney Weaver screen test; still photo galleries; deleted and extended scenes.
Disc 1: Director's cut (117 min., 2003) -- Theatrical version (116 min., 1979).
Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto.
A mindless, savage, and merciless alien is attacking the crew of an intergalactic freighter and it must be stopped before they are all killed.
DVD; Region 1; NTSC; widescreen presentation (2.35:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 Dolby surround, 5.1 DTS, Dolby surround.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Classic space horror! submitted by pkooger on June 6, 2012, 12:02pm If you're a fan of sci-fi movies or horror movies and haven't seen Alien, please extricate yourself from under that rock and get on it immediately! Thirty-five years later, this movie still makes me squirm with tension every time I see it. Ridley Scott took the schlocky science-fiction creature feature genre and brought it to a whole other level. This is one of my favorite films of all time.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
submitted by andersonb on June 23, 2013, 2:07pm
Classic horror. Alien is suspensful and intense. Sigorney Weaver as Ripley is the original tough female lead that so much of sci/fi now tries to recapture, but seems to fall miserably short by not remembering the character's humanity. The effects are amazing even now and go a long way toward showing you exactly what we loose by going to digital heavy effects.
If you are a fan of horror or science fiction, this movie is a must watch.
Amazing submitted by leenajong on July 10, 2015, 12:32pm Classic sci-fi movie!
Amazing! submitted by Team_ROX on June 19, 2017, 3:15pm One of the best horror/sci-if films of all time. Incredible cast, and Ridley Scott at his best. Saw it for the first time when I was six, not something I'd recommend, but it's my favorite movie now!
Classic submitted by KOH on August 11, 2017, 11:23pm Still holds up. Scary!
I was pregnant when I watched this movie! submitted by ccrose on July 19, 2019, 5:45pm Big Mistake! But, many years later, I'm ready to take on the nasty mother monster again. Sigourney Weaver was a great choice for Ripley. I think she'd just made Ghostbusters so this must have really been a leap. I understand that the cast was not told what was going to happen when the first crew member was stricken. And I won't ruin the moment but just remember when you watch this scene that the actors were as shocked as you are.
SERIES
Collector's edition
10.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned.
PUBLISHED
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Shusett, Ronald.
O'Bannon, Dan.
Carroll, Gordon, 1928-2005.
Giler, David.
Hill, Walter, 1942-
Scott, Ridley.
Skerritt, Tom.
Weaver, Sigourney, 1949-
Cartwright, Veronica.
Stanton, Harry Dean, 1926-
Hurt, John, 1940-2017.
Holm, Ian, 1931-
Kotto, Yaphet, 1937-
Vanlint, Derek.
Rawlings, Terry.
Goldsmith, Jerry.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Brandywine (Firm)
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
SUBJECTS
Monsters -- Drama.
Human-alien encounters -- Drama.
Feature films.
Horror films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.