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Alien Reviews
There is still much to enjoy and admire in Ridley Scott's film.
At its best, "Alien" remains an exercise in claustrophobic terror.
Alien is no ordinary movie. While its gruesome effects require a strong stomach, its overall impact requires an even strong mind and imagination.
Alien is one of the most impressive pieces of cinema in history. It set the bar so high for horror and sci-fi that I think it’s still the apex of both.
Every single aspect of this movie is carefully thought-out and crafted to the highest of standards.
They'll save all the complexities for what you see visually, but in terms of the premise, all it needs is just a monster, a spaceship, a bunch of people, and let things fly out as it is, especially with the focus on the survival aspect.
It is scary but fun scary. It is one of the finest films in that genre ever made
Half the joy of Ridley Scott’s miraculous sophomore film is watching Weaver ascend from the film’s pack of charismatic character actors to become a movie icon in under two hours.
Combined with the brilliant visual aesthetic, impeccable production design, and great performances from top-to-bottom, Alien has few equals in cinematic history.
Like so many great sci-fi films of the era, it leaves those to the imagination in favor of character and story.
Human beings mostly die in the order of how much they acquiesced to the company without complaint, and even the robot and alien are not immune. Only the rebel, Ripley, and Jonesy, a cat who is the embodiment of a being who is never subservient, survive.
A masterpiece of sci-fi horror.
A towering technical achievement; an all-time Final Girl; creature design for the gods. Alien is the complete package. 5/5 - no notes.
The beauty, the scale, and the artistic vision Scott brings to Alien go beyond filmmaking and into the ambitious realm of myth-making that burned a permanent, glorious scar on the memory and psyche of the world.
Still a masterpiece of slow-burning dread and terror.
Simply one of the best at being terrifying with the random unknown disconnected from any necessary lore.
Alien will scare the peanuts right out of your M&M's. It was about time someone made a science-fiction thriller that thrills... and just boils everything down to the pure, ravishingly vulgar essence of fright.
This thing scared the shit out of me. Alien's a masterpiece of fright.
It is space in raw, horrifying terms. It is primitive, stricken, painful. And it is terrifying in the way that Edgar Allen Poe's horror stories are terrifying -- the physical reaction transcends the words, or, in this case, the images.
You can have Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001. I'll take Alien.
Ridley Scott's Alien is simply extraordinary. It's as spectacular as horror thrillers ever get.