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A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas's (Tom Skerritt) rescue tea Review: Sci-Fi/Horror at it's best - often imitated but rarely surpassed - Short version: If you haven't seen Alien yet (or haven't watched it lately), wait until late at night, turn off all the lights, press "play" and enjoy... ;) Long version: It's almost hard to believe that Alien came out over 40 years ago. I was 13 when I saw it on the big screen, and I still remember watching it in a dark, almost empty theater. To say it scared me back then would be an understatement. The plot is simple - an alien gets onboard a tug/freighter spaceship, and the crew attempts to kill it as it picks them off one-by-one. On paper it doesn't sound exciting or scary, but the atmosphere, pacing and overwhelming sense of dread steadily turn up the tension. Make no mistake - this isn't a fast-paced pace, Michael Bay action flick - it's a dark, claustrophobic, slow burn horror film 1st and foremost. The various versions of the title creature were very unique (at the time), terrifying and visceral. HR Giger's designs - both for the alien, the derelict ship, and its pilot - and were very unsettling in a way that's still hard to describe today. Giger's biomechanical art style has been imitated in films many, many times over the years - but in my opinion its never been improved upon. The only film to successfully use Giger's biomechanical design/style - and build upon it in a lateral sort of way - was the sequel "Aliens" (an equally impressive film for completely different reasons). (Side-note: An incredibly talented high school classmate of mine went into the special effects industry, citing Giger's' work as a major influence. He even met and spent some time with Giger prior to his death in 2014). The film was a stark contrast to Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc., where the spacecraft interiors were smooth, clean, and sterile in appearance. It was easy to believe that the characters actually worked on/in their ship (the Nostromo), which had an appropriately grimy, gritty, worn and "used" feeling. The Nostromo also had a vastly different exterior design and overall feeling than other spaceships portrayed in film at the time. It was big, bulky, and decidedly not aerodynamic nor sleek in any way (it was designed to give the impression of a riverboat tug that takes 1 or 2 miles to slow down and execute a simple turn to go back the way it came). Landing on the planet (to investigate the alien "distress" signal) is portrayed as a slow, difficult, and inherently risky/dangerous process (no transporters here to beam the crew to/from the planet). Space travel is also depicted in a unique and more realistic manner than in many previous sci-fi films - travelling to/from star systems takes months or years vs hours/minutes/days. Costume design for the crew follows the same "well-used and worked-in" theme as the spaceship interior and exterior - no skin-tight spandex jumpsuits here. This further reinforces the idea that the crew are akin to a sea-going freighter crew (captain/pilot/radio operator/mechanics/etc.) that just happen to work in space. Although there's little time for character development, the acting is solid across the board. The entire cast went on to have long, impressive careers - with several of the surviving actors/actresses still active today. The title creature isn't shown in full until very late in the film - the viewer only gets a partial glimpse here and there - a formula other good creature films often follow. When it is finally revealed (after having blended perfectly into its surroundings – VERY creepy) its horrific yet somehow elegant & captivating at the same time. In my opinion, the film has held up very well over the years. Only a few scenes/props/special effects betray the movies' age. The 1st being the computer interface(s) various crew members interact with, and the 2nd when the science officer is being questioned about the alien (after he is the victim of a VERY traumatic injury). Even with its minor flaws, Alien (and the Aliens sequel) is a 1st class Sci-Fi film that set a high standard (a standard that few sci-fi films have matched even to this day) and is highly recommended. Trivia 1: In an the early versions of the script, the alien derelict ship is found and explored - but they only find the dead pilot - the alien eggs aren't onboard. Later, while the crew ponders what happened to the crew of the derelict, they locate a nearby pyramid-like structure. When they investigate it, they discover strange hieroglyphics on the walls and ultimately the alien eggs. (The final script/plot for Alien removed the alien pyramid completely, and the alien eggs are found aboard the derelict). This basic plot structure (pyramid included) was later used in the low budget film "Galaxy of Terror" which was released only two years after Alien. A spaceship crew (this time on a rescue mission) lands on an alien planet only to find a derelict (human) ship with dead/missing crew. They later investigate a mysterious pyramid nearby which contains numerous, unspeakable horrors. (Interestingly enough, James Cameron worked on Galaxy of Terror as the production designer and 2nd unit director and was responsible for much of the special effects). Aliens (the direct sequel to Alien) was directed by Cameron 7 years after Alien (and 5 years after he worked on Galaxy of Terror) and utilized the same basic story structure as Galaxy of Terror. However, instead of exploring a derelict ship, the protagonists/rescuers explore the abandoned/empty colony of "Hadley's Hope". Later they explore the vaguely pyramid shaped atmosphere processor and find alien eggs, multiple aliens and ultimately the alien responsible for laying all those eggs... Trivia 2: Several design elements in early, preproduction sketches of the Nostromo (named "Snark" at the time), found their way into the design of the Prometheus ship in Ridley Scotts (non-Alien sequel) film of the same name. Prometheus also has a dome/pyramid structure (with a menacing skull/face on it's top) as the main environment the crew investigates. The exterior design is reminiscent of both the (unused) pyramid design from Alien and another pyramid/dome structure Giger designed for the movie "Dune". The dome structure in Prometheus also contained a large number of mysterious urns on the floor - very reminiscent of the egg chamber seen in Alien. On the walls of the urn chamber are numerous hieroglyphics, many of which are taken directly from HR Giger's early, preproduction artwork/paintings of the alien's life cycle. Review: I HAVE A GNAWING PAIN IN MY CHEST - 40 years after release and after becoming one of the most iconic scifi/horror franchises during that time, do I really need to tell you what the movie Alien is about? A deep space refining starship intercepts a mysterious beacon and is rerouted to investigate its origin. When they reach the planet it is emanating from, one of the crew is impregnated by an alien, whose progeny proceeds to kill off the crew one by one. Yeah, not the most complex of plots. In fact, I admire its purity. It's the execution of the movie and the acting that elevate it to another level of filmmaking, that of a masterpiece. The filmmakers and the actors were at the top of their games. Alien in some ways reminded me of the original Star Wars. What you had were two hungry directors who, technically, at least were virtuosos, in terms of framing and setting up scenes. You could tell the directors knew exactly what they wanted. Unfortunately for Lucas, the original Star Wars film was his last great one, whereas Scott moved on to do Blade Runner right after this. All the actors are great, and I think it would have been a lesser picture if any of the cast had been played by anyone else. They just all seemed to fit the roles so well. I can't even imagine seeing Sigourney Weaver in this first film role back in the day. I mean she explodes off the screen with magnetism and sexiness and toughness. At a time when those kind of female roles were sadly lacking in any kind of action terms. The visual designs of the aliens and their tech was done by HR Giger. Nobody can say that guy thought along the same visual and conceptual lines of regular human beings. He was so original that his designs SEEM alien but at the same time familiar to humanoid life. The atmosphere of the film was greatly aided by the lighting and sound design, along with Jerry Goldsmith's score. Scott used a lot of natural light, in the sense that when it's dark, the corridor is dark. It doesn't feel like he wanted any light that didn't belong there. For instance, when Dallas is trying to flush the alien out of the air shafts, the only lighting is from his flamethrower. Or when part of the crew visits the alien derelict, the light is only coming from the lamps on top of their helmets. There are lots of dark corners and spaces that make it more suspenseful. The sound design also makes the film more tense. I don't know if most people notice but I can't remember a scene of the movie where I did not hear breathing. Whether it was wind travelling through the ship, or when the face hugger is on Kaine's face, or when the crew interfaces with the ship's computer, there is always the sound of some kind of respiration. And not in a zen like way. Almost in a sense that there is always something "out there", watching you, hunting you. Of course, what needs to be said about Jerry Goldsmith, who is one of the greats, even 40 years ago, he was already a legend. Like HR Giger, in his soundscapes, Goldsmith was able to use the orchestra to make its instruments sound otherworldly and somehow instill dread, terror, beauty, and yes, even WONDER into the context of the film. It was just spot on the whole way through without EVER going over the top. After watching the film, the next night I rewatched it with the commentary by the cast and crew and enjoyed just the same. They had almost everyone that worked on the film, except Yaphet Kotto, who played Parker. The director, the editor, the writers, and all of the actors chimed in on the making of the movie and its most classic scenes. Oh, Ian Holm wasn't on it. Weaver, Skerritt, Stanton, and Cartwright were though. I think its incredible that one director in two movies made two of my favorite and critically lauded scifi films of all time. Both Alien and Blade Runner were movies I watched over and over on my dad's laserdisc player back in the 80s. Even that young, I could sense how special they were. This blu-ray features both the original 1979 theatrical release and the 2003 directors cut with Jerry Goldsmith's eerie score possible to isolate on both. Ridley Scott added in about 12 minutes of new footage to the directors cut. The great thing about Alien is that everyone knew they were making a monster movie. But somewhere along the way, the entire cast and crew realized they were so good that they elevated it subconsciously or consciously into a great work of art. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Harry Stanton, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Walter Hill, Yaphet Kotto Contributor David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Harry Stanton, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Walter Hill, Yaphet Kotto See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 11,019 Reviews | | Format | Blu-ray | | Genre | Horror | | Language | English | | Runtime | 0 minute | ## Product Details - **Format:** Blu-ray - **Genre:** Horror - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 0 minute ## Images ![Alien - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91tgKeTw4-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sci-Fi/Horror at it's best - often imitated but rarely surpassed *by A***6 on June 3, 2021* Short version: If you haven't seen Alien yet (or haven't watched it lately), wait until late at night, turn off all the lights, press "play" and enjoy... ;) Long version: It's almost hard to believe that Alien came out over 40 years ago. I was 13 when I saw it on the big screen, and I still remember watching it in a dark, almost empty theater. To say it scared me back then would be an understatement. The plot is simple - an alien gets onboard a tug/freighter spaceship, and the crew attempts to kill it as it picks them off one-by-one. On paper it doesn't sound exciting or scary, but the atmosphere, pacing and overwhelming sense of dread steadily turn up the tension. Make no mistake - this isn't a fast-paced pace, Michael Bay action flick - it's a dark, claustrophobic, slow burn horror film 1st and foremost. The various versions of the title creature were very unique (at the time), terrifying and visceral. HR Giger's designs - both for the alien, the derelict ship, and its pilot - and were very unsettling in a way that's still hard to describe today. Giger's biomechanical art style has been imitated in films many, many times over the years - but in my opinion its never been improved upon. The only film to successfully use Giger's biomechanical design/style - and build upon it in a lateral sort of way - was the sequel "Aliens" (an equally impressive film for completely different reasons). (Side-note: An incredibly talented high school classmate of mine went into the special effects industry, citing Giger's' work as a major influence. He even met and spent some time with Giger prior to his death in 2014). The film was a stark contrast to Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc., where the spacecraft interiors were smooth, clean, and sterile in appearance. It was easy to believe that the characters actually worked on/in their ship (the Nostromo), which had an appropriately grimy, gritty, worn and "used" feeling. The Nostromo also had a vastly different exterior design and overall feeling than other spaceships portrayed in film at the time. It was big, bulky, and decidedly not aerodynamic nor sleek in any way (it was designed to give the impression of a riverboat tug that takes 1 or 2 miles to slow down and execute a simple turn to go back the way it came). Landing on the planet (to investigate the alien "distress" signal) is portrayed as a slow, difficult, and inherently risky/dangerous process (no transporters here to beam the crew to/from the planet). Space travel is also depicted in a unique and more realistic manner than in many previous sci-fi films - travelling to/from star systems takes months or years vs hours/minutes/days. Costume design for the crew follows the same "well-used and worked-in" theme as the spaceship interior and exterior - no skin-tight spandex jumpsuits here. This further reinforces the idea that the crew are akin to a sea-going freighter crew (captain/pilot/radio operator/mechanics/etc.) that just happen to work in space. Although there's little time for character development, the acting is solid across the board. The entire cast went on to have long, impressive careers - with several of the surviving actors/actresses still active today. The title creature isn't shown in full until very late in the film - the viewer only gets a partial glimpse here and there - a formula other good creature films often follow. When it is finally revealed (after having blended perfectly into its surroundings – VERY creepy) its horrific yet somehow elegant & captivating at the same time. In my opinion, the film has held up very well over the years. Only a few scenes/props/special effects betray the movies' age. The 1st being the computer interface(s) various crew members interact with, and the 2nd when the science officer is being questioned about the alien (after he is the victim of a VERY traumatic injury). Even with its minor flaws, Alien (and the Aliens sequel) is a 1st class Sci-Fi film that set a high standard (a standard that few sci-fi films have matched even to this day) and is highly recommended. Trivia 1: In an the early versions of the script, the alien derelict ship is found and explored - but they only find the dead pilot - the alien eggs aren't onboard. Later, while the crew ponders what happened to the crew of the derelict, they locate a nearby pyramid-like structure. When they investigate it, they discover strange hieroglyphics on the walls and ultimately the alien eggs. (The final script/plot for Alien removed the alien pyramid completely, and the alien eggs are found aboard the derelict). This basic plot structure (pyramid included) was later used in the low budget film "Galaxy of Terror" which was released only two years after Alien. A spaceship crew (this time on a rescue mission) lands on an alien planet only to find a derelict (human) ship with dead/missing crew. They later investigate a mysterious pyramid nearby which contains numerous, unspeakable horrors. (Interestingly enough, James Cameron worked on Galaxy of Terror as the production designer and 2nd unit director and was responsible for much of the special effects). Aliens (the direct sequel to Alien) was directed by Cameron 7 years after Alien (and 5 years after he worked on Galaxy of Terror) and utilized the same basic story structure as Galaxy of Terror. However, instead of exploring a derelict ship, the protagonists/rescuers explore the abandoned/empty colony of "Hadley's Hope". Later they explore the vaguely pyramid shaped atmosphere processor and find alien eggs, multiple aliens and ultimately the alien responsible for laying all those eggs... Trivia 2: Several design elements in early, preproduction sketches of the Nostromo (named "Snark" at the time), found their way into the design of the Prometheus ship in Ridley Scotts (non-Alien sequel) film of the same name. Prometheus also has a dome/pyramid structure (with a menacing skull/face on it's top) as the main environment the crew investigates. The exterior design is reminiscent of both the (unused) pyramid design from Alien and another pyramid/dome structure Giger designed for the movie "Dune". The dome structure in Prometheus also contained a large number of mysterious urns on the floor - very reminiscent of the egg chamber seen in Alien. On the walls of the urn chamber are numerous hieroglyphics, many of which are taken directly from HR Giger's early, preproduction artwork/paintings of the alien's life cycle. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I HAVE A GNAWING PAIN IN MY CHEST *by S***O on December 6, 2020* 40 years after release and after becoming one of the most iconic scifi/horror franchises during that time, do I really need to tell you what the movie Alien is about? A deep space refining starship intercepts a mysterious beacon and is rerouted to investigate its origin. When they reach the planet it is emanating from, one of the crew is impregnated by an alien, whose progeny proceeds to kill off the crew one by one. Yeah, not the most complex of plots. In fact, I admire its purity. It's the execution of the movie and the acting that elevate it to another level of filmmaking, that of a masterpiece. The filmmakers and the actors were at the top of their games. Alien in some ways reminded me of the original Star Wars. What you had were two hungry directors who, technically, at least were virtuosos, in terms of framing and setting up scenes. You could tell the directors knew exactly what they wanted. Unfortunately for Lucas, the original Star Wars film was his last great one, whereas Scott moved on to do Blade Runner right after this. All the actors are great, and I think it would have been a lesser picture if any of the cast had been played by anyone else. They just all seemed to fit the roles so well. I can't even imagine seeing Sigourney Weaver in this first film role back in the day. I mean she explodes off the screen with magnetism and sexiness and toughness. At a time when those kind of female roles were sadly lacking in any kind of action terms. The visual designs of the aliens and their tech was done by HR Giger. Nobody can say that guy thought along the same visual and conceptual lines of regular human beings. He was so original that his designs SEEM alien but at the same time familiar to humanoid life. The atmosphere of the film was greatly aided by the lighting and sound design, along with Jerry Goldsmith's score. Scott used a lot of natural light, in the sense that when it's dark, the corridor is dark. It doesn't feel like he wanted any light that didn't belong there. For instance, when Dallas is trying to flush the alien out of the air shafts, the only lighting is from his flamethrower. Or when part of the crew visits the alien derelict, the light is only coming from the lamps on top of their helmets. There are lots of dark corners and spaces that make it more suspenseful. The sound design also makes the film more tense. I don't know if most people notice but I can't remember a scene of the movie where I did not hear breathing. Whether it was wind travelling through the ship, or when the face hugger is on Kaine's face, or when the crew interfaces with the ship's computer, there is always the sound of some kind of respiration. And not in a zen like way. Almost in a sense that there is always something "out there", watching you, hunting you. Of course, what needs to be said about Jerry Goldsmith, who is one of the greats, even 40 years ago, he was already a legend. Like HR Giger, in his soundscapes, Goldsmith was able to use the orchestra to make its instruments sound otherworldly and somehow instill dread, terror, beauty, and yes, even WONDER into the context of the film. It was just spot on the whole way through without EVER going over the top. After watching the film, the next night I rewatched it with the commentary by the cast and crew and enjoyed just the same. They had almost everyone that worked on the film, except Yaphet Kotto, who played Parker. The director, the editor, the writers, and all of the actors chimed in on the making of the movie and its most classic scenes. Oh, Ian Holm wasn't on it. Weaver, Skerritt, Stanton, and Cartwright were though. I think its incredible that one director in two movies made two of my favorite and critically lauded scifi films of all time. Both Alien and Blade Runner were movies I watched over and over on my dad's laserdisc player back in the 80s. Even that young, I could sense how special they were. This blu-ray features both the original 1979 theatrical release and the 2003 directors cut with Jerry Goldsmith's eerie score possible to isolate on both. Ridley Scott added in about 12 minutes of new footage to the directors cut. The great thing about Alien is that everyone knew they were making a monster movie. But somewhere along the way, the entire cast and crew realized they were so good that they elevated it subconsciously or consciously into a great work of art. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Every bit as terrifying as when it first came out *by J***K on June 3, 2014* It's not every science fiction horror thriller that can terrify you twice. But "Alien," quite literally the scariest movie I have ever seen (and I've seen a great many), is unlike most others. Even 35 years later, even when the the story and sequence of events have long been burned into my consciousness from the first time I saw it, on the big screen the year it came out (1979), it makes my blood run ice cold. It may be harder for newer audiences to be as thoroughly terrified as I was when I first saw it in the theater. After all, "Alien" has become embedded in the culture — not least for its iconic status as one of the scariest movies ever made. But the many pop culture references to (and spoofs of) it can make it hard to enjoy for the first time. My 14-year-old son liked the movie a great deal, but was found it nowhere near as terrifying. Reasons for his reaction range from his having heard of some of the archetypally horrific scenes from friends or on TV shows growing up — or possibly due to his homeroom teacher having brought in a plush version of the film's anti-hero to show the class just this year. For my part, I find it utterly startling just how impressively the movie has weathered the ages since it was made in the late 1970's. Of course, this was the age when some of the great masterpieces of space-oriented science fiction came to the screen. "Star Wars" (and its wonderfully visionary holographic displays) had come out a scant three years earlier, less than a decade after Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" set a new plateau for space realism. And Spielberg's 1977 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was similarly believable — although much of the action took place on present-day Earth. All these movies were made before the emergence of sophisticated computer graphics in the 1990's. But unlike these others, director Ridley Scott was able to create an extremely realistic universe that seamlessly stitches together a pastiche of multiple cultures, some of whom are utterly alien, but one that is at once futuristic and removed from, and at the same time completely familiar and instantly recognizable from our current culture. The foreignness of these alien cultures, experienced mostly as remnants (and thanks in no small part to the haunting, other-worldly artistry of H.R. Giger, whom Scott uses beautifully in this film), are woven together into an utterly convincing, uniquely human universe. It's not just a realistic human-built spaceship (or two or three) that Scott creates, but an entire socio-political universe, filled with the unseen hands of giant corporations, labor tensions, corruption and malfeasance. Scott expertly situates his characters in this universe, replete with the frustrations and ennui of humans coping with the realities of the vast distances of space, the enormous ship in their charge, the regulations of the overbearing corporation that owns the enterprise, and the cramped living quarters in which they live — all of which are at once instantly recognizable and effortlessly believable. The story takes place in the (presumably) not-too-distant future, when merchant ships traverse between stars much as cargo ships routinely travel the oceans today. With the small and, to this reviewer, utterly forgivable exception of the now-dated-looking, monochromatic, green LED computer displays, the realism of Scott's vision is utter, and still feels effortlessly convincing (if a bit claustrophobic for my tastes). I was surprised by the range and performance of excellent actors in the movie, most of whose names I had forgotten in the ensuing 35 years. Of course I remembered Sigourney Weaver, but had forgotten the superb performances turned in by the rest of a luminous cast: Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartright, Tom Skerritt and Harry Dean Stanton — to say nothing of the sparkling Brits Ian Holm and John Hurt. Relevant? All the more so now than when it was made. Recommended? Highly. "Alien" remains a masterwork of film craftsmanship and storytelling, with characters you care about — in a place where, even in your worst nightmares, you dare not go. ## Frequently Bought Together - Alien [Blu-ray] - Aliens [Blu-ray] - Alien: Romulus - 4K + Blu-ray + Digital [4K UHD] --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://cote.desertcart.com/products/113511406-alien](https://cote.desertcart.com/products/113511406-alien) --- *Product available on Desertcart Cote D' Ivoire* *Store origin: CI* *Last updated: 2026-09-12*