Wednesday 25 May 2011

Film 39 "Alien" IMDB No. 46

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space.


1979 Ridley Scott
The crew of a deep space mining ship get woken from hypersleep when the ship's computer interprets a signal from a planet as an  SOS. You know what's going to happen, it's going to kick off with an Alien, it's all there in title of the film, it wasn't an SOS it was a warning.
It starts pretty slowly as the crew prepare to investigate, like a classic horror film it just keeps building the tension. There's plenty of gorey action and the ending made me hold my breath.
I last saw this when I was a teenager and probably didn't realise how good it was then, this was like watching it for the first time.
Brilliant 8/10

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