Alien- film review

“Alien” is a horror, science fiction movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1979.

Seven people, the crew of the Nostromo, a commercial towing space vehicle, are on the way to return to Earth. During the film’s first scenes we see the crew’s ordinary activities. When they receive a possible distress signal from a planet. Three people get into the alien spaceship, where they find a chamber with the floor covered with large leathery eggs. One of the people gets attacked by an alien creature, which makes a hole through his protective helmet, sticks something in his throat and stays in his face. Then they bring the man back to the spaceship, but they did not take it off his face because it would be too dangerous for the life form to be removed. Eventually, however, it falls off on its own, apparently dead. The man returns conscious, but after a while a creature bursts through his chest and escapes from the air ducts, leaving the man dead. The rest of the crew mounts a search in the Nostromo, with the alien picking off one by one. And, with each of the people it kills, it grows larger and stronger.

    It is an amazing film, full of suspense and horror. There are plenty of intense scenes that make you jump from your seat. The fist one is when the creature leaps out of the egg and stacks to the man. The second is when the alien explodes through him and then, during the hunt for the alien, there are numerous of them.

   There also a difference in the lighting and music that makes the appearance of the alien even scarier. At the beginning we see empty rooms and hallways, lighted up a few panels and with an indifferent music in the background. As later the whole scenery is really dark, with really intense music and noises.

   The production designing is incredible and fits perfectly for the creature. The set is dark and claustrophobic: maze of dark, narrow passages. The alien had a something like a ‘metallic, reptilian body and rows of razor-sharp teeth dripping saliva’.

    We also notice that the director is really careful with how much we see of the creature. That way he provides the audience’s mind with terrifying images and leaves the biggest part in our imagination.