If you are looking into an article such as this one, than I can venture a guess that you are wanting to learn a little more about one of the most horrifying science fiction pieces of cinema in the world today, “Alien”. Through the upcoming paragraphs, you will get a detailed plot synopsis as well as some interesting things that you might care to know about the film in general.

This was by no means the first extraterrestrial based film to be released, so people were fairly familiar with what they thought an alien should look like on screen. However, this movie gave audiences an outer worldly being unlike anything that they had ever seen before. To say the least, there were several differences between these creatures in earlier interpretations to what the minds behind this film brought.

The main difference was that these beings did not just stand around and look creepy. They don’t take you up into their spaceship and try to learn more about you. They kill you, or they use your body to grow new beasts inside of… Plain and simple. Also, most extraterrestrial beings up until this point still looked a particular way that people expected them to look, but they were nothing like the minds behind this film had in mind.

These were beasts of prey and terror. They had long tails and often walked on all fours. They had rows of teeth and heavily salivate a toxic substance. This was not what people think they saw at Roswell, this is far more sinister and terrifying than that. Not to mention, they are all just peons that work for the much larger, and much scarier queen alien. You don’t learn about these until some of the sequels, though.

The humans of the film are part of a mining expedition out in space when they hear a distress signal coming from a planet that they are passing by. So they unload their tow and leave it in orbit while they head to the planet to see if they can help. It doesn’t take them long to learn that this was no distress signal at all, and they are most certainly not alone on the planet. Dallas and Kane, two crew members head out and encounter the creatures first when one attaches to Kane’s face and won’t release.

Through the course of the plot the creatures that the little one will grow to become begin to surface and wreak havoc. The crew also learns that they were meant to land on the planet and the ship would house aliens being sent back to Earth, and they would likely be the in flight meal for this excursion. The crew is all but demolished, except for Ripley who escapes on a shuttle after setting the self destruct functions. She is not alone, and the alien is outside the shuttle attempting to find a way inside. When she tries to come in through the thrusters, Ripley fires them which incinerates the creature and Ripley returns safely to Earth.

This movie would not be nearly as good if it weren’t for the incredible acting involved. Performances from Sigourney Weaver (Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas) and John Hurt (Kane) really made this movie remarkable.

There is a good bit to know about the movie “Alien”, but this should give you a proper introduction to the film. While this movie is quite a classic, you might want to check it out as well as the several sequels to the film that followed after (most of which feature Sigourney Weaver in returning roles as Ripley).

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