Seven blue-collar workers, transporting minerals to Earth, are awakened from stasis when the receiver in their spacecraft, Nostromo, picks up a transmission from a nearby planetoid. They land to investigate the source and find a warning from an earlier craft. They discover a pod in a large cave, it attaches itself to Kane's face, rendering him unconscious. The leader, Dallas, and others bring Kane back to the ship, but Ash insists, despite objections from Ripley, that they disobey quarantine protocols and allow Kane to re-enter the ship. Once in transit, the crew is horrified to see a small monster burst out of Kane's chest. An egg had been implanted in him. The creature, now growing in size, begins to stalk and terrorize the crew of the Nostromo.


Books on Alien

J.W. Rinzler
The making of Alien
London, 2019

Roger Luckhurst
Alien
London; New York, 2014

Books with substantial mentioning of Alien

Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers
Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven
Amsterdam, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Roz Kaveney
From Alien to the Matrix, Reading Science Fiction Film
London - New York, 2005

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Books with an entry on Alien

Scott Aaron Stine
The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2001

Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross
The Motion Picture Guide, Volume I A-B 1927-1983
Chicago, 1985

Articles on Alien

Andrew McWhirter, Digital Media as Textual Theory, Audiovisual, pictorial and data analyses of Alien and Aliens, in: Luke Hockley (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of Jungian film studies, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2018

Catherine Constable, Becoming the Monster's Mother: Morphologies of Identity in the Alien Series, in: Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone II, London - New York, 1999

Adam Smith, Taming the Beast, The Making Of The Alien Saga, in: Empire, nr. 161, 2002 pp. 164-169

Ian Nathan, "I wanted a hardcore reaction!", The inside story of the Chestburster, the scene that defined a franchise, in: Empire, nr. 245 (November), 2009 pp. 106-111

Ian Nathan, "She would have liked a normal kind of life...", in: Empire, nr. 245 (November), 2009 pp. 124-129

Articles with substantial mentioning of Alien

Part I, Cultural Spaces, in: Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone II, London - New York, 1999

Reviews

Jeffrey Wells, Alien, in: Films in Review, vol. 30, 1979 pp. 436

Matthew Leyland, Something in our spaceship, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2, 2004 pp. 68 (DVD review)

Ian Nathan, Alien Anthology, in: Empire, nr. 257 (November), 2010 pp. 146-147 (DVD review)


Year: 1979
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0078748