Alien R
Ridley Scott's dark future of a take on Nostromo, plays of Greek tragedy and of classic horror literature. It's not what you see that scares you. It's what you can't see. This is one of the sharpest, scariest, and slimiest space horror flicks ever. Taking the classic idea of a haunted house with a scary monster and mixing it with the thing from outer space idea makes this a cut above most regular fantasy. Making the alien freakish and evil, able to implant parasites into a human, is a bit like in the later Carpenter movie, the Thing, but here the less you see of the monster the scarier it is. Spielberg's Jaws also played on this in that the shark is barely visible. The commercial ship Nostromo answers a distress beacon on planet LB 421 and discovers a crashed alien craft. Upon investigating, a crewman is attacked and a strange squid like thing attaches itself to him. Later they discover it has laid an egg and the parasite grows rapidly, hatching from his stomach in a scene so gross it was later spoofed countless times. The rapidly growing alien then causes total havoc throughout the ship until female tech Ripley figures out how to smoke it out. Sigourney Weaver is the bombshell with more cahonis than the entire male crew. Nobody kicks butt like she does. Ladies who can totally kick butt became a genre staple with Wonder Woman, but here is another, out in space in a jumpsuit.
Review by Adam Browne
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