Alien

Genre: Horror

Worldwide gross$110M

In the distant future, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo are on their way home when they pick up a distress call from a distant moon. The crew are under obligation to investigate and the spaceship descends on the moon afterwards. After a rough landing, three crew members leave the spaceship to explore the area on the moon. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a distress call. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew realizes that they are not alone on the spaceship and they must deal with the consequences.

🏆 Won 1 Oscar. 19 wins & 22 nominations total

Genres

Horror, Sci-Fi

Director

Ridley Scott

Cast

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

Released

22 June 1979

Runtime

1h 57m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

8.5 / 10

Votes

1,056,896

Metascore

89

Rotten Tomatoes

93%

Box office

$84,206,106

Budget

$11,000,000

Edition

Base