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Alien

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  Alien Review
Tookey's Rating
8 /10
 
Average Rating
8.22 /10
 
Starring
Sigourney Weaver , Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright
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Directed by: Ridley Scott
Written by: Dan O’Bannon from story by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett

 
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Released: 1979
   
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
ACTION
ADVENTURE
MONSTER
HORROR
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Origin: US/ GB
   
Length: 124
 
 


 
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"The heroine stands up to the image of male sexual aggression and comes through as the only survivor in a genre where men only reign supreme."
(Martin Sutton, Orbis, 1984)
"A tour de force of pure horror... The alien [is] an insane mesh of hungry teeth straight from the painting of Francis Bacon."
(J.G. Ballard, American Film, 1987)
“There is none of our modern screenwriting need to provide story arcs, lenient human touches and love interest. Everything is about mood, fesr, violence and horror... After 25 years, Alien looks better than ever.”
(Peter Bradshaw, GUARDIAN, 2003)

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