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A Balasaur Score of 87 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 93%, Metacritic 89/100. Every source lands within 8 points of the others, across 17,000 audience votes. The highest scoring of the 4 titles in its series. Streaming on Netflix.
Synopsis
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Ratings
16,813 audience votes
Key crew
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Ridley ScottDirector
- Dan O'BannonScreenplay
Cast
- Tom SkerrittDallas
- Sigourney WeaverRipley
- Veronica CartwrightLambert
- Harry Dean StantonBrett
- John HurtKane
- Ian HolmAsh
- Yaphet KottoParker
- Bolaji BadejoAlien
- Helen HortonMother (voice)
Stills
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Shares: Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Dystopian Sci-Fi
Themes
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