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Alien [1979] (15)

The crew of a commercial space vessel are terrorised by a mysterious creature in Ridley Scott’s classic body horror. 

After years travelling the lonely expanses of outer space, the crew of the Nostromo receive an unknown transmission, which they perceive as a distress call and decide to investigate. Landing on the planet from which it originated, one of their crew is attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realise that its life cycle has only begun.  

With an iconic main character in Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, and some of the most memorable and horrifying moments in cinema, Alien has lost none of its atmosphere and impact and demands to be seen on the big screen.

  • DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott
  • CAST: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright
  • LANGUAGE: English

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