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Starring
Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

Director
Ridley Scott

Year
1979

Genre
Science Fiction

Synopsis
In space no one can hear you scream! Or so they say. Sigourney Weaver finds out when she stars as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's ground-breaking masterpiece of suspense and hard-boiled sci-fi.

Ripley's a resourceful officer who takes on the original exoskeletal mother of all, and spearheads the battle against a stowaway monster, who terrorises the crew of a spacecraft.

Support cast includes Tom Skerritt and John Hurt. Earned an Oscar for H R Giger's surrealist aliens.

TRIVIA:
An early draft of the script had a male Ripley; conceptual artist H.R. Giger's designs were changed several times because of their blatant sexuality; the front (face) part of the alien costume's head is made from a cast of a real human skull; for the awakening from hypersleep segment, Veronica Cartwright and Sigourney Weaver had to wear white surgical tape over their nipples so as not to offend certain countries.

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