"In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream." Ridley
Scott's masterpiece of quick-cutting (you never really see the
monster) tells the story of the Nostromo, a deep-space cargo ship
and its dysfunctional stir-crazy crew. They stop to check on a
ship that has crash-landed, only to bring a deadly parasite
onboard with them. H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist, designed the
alien ship itself to resemble the inside of a strange place
that's half industrial plant, half womb. John Hurt is the first
to go in the gory chest-ripping scene, and then this mechanical
insect mutant starts to breed.
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