How Ripley's ship in Alien got the name USCSS Nostromo

The USCSS Nostromo, that famous ship from the iconic sci-fi horror classic, Alien, was named after a key character from a ...

1979 Classic, Turned Down by Harrison Ford and Walter Hill, Ranked Seventh-Greatest Sci-Fi Film of All Time

Released on May 25, 1979, Alien starred Sigourney Weaver, Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto ...

"Alien"—Born from the scrap heap of a spaceship, the film that corporations feared most

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Alien's Director Used A Smart Trick To Solve The Movie's Biggest Visual Challenge

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...
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Alien Is the Most Perfectly Engineered Horror Film Ever Made

The gaping hole in the alien corpse’s torso is where the horror begins. Ridley Scott‘s Alien (1979) doesn’t just introduce a monster—it weaponizes industrial dread and corporeal violation into ...
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All 9 'Alien' Movies, Ranked From Worst to Best

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