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By Speaker Dime on 1st Dec 2006

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Starring Actor/Actress	Sigourney Weaver
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Value for money	10/10
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Yet another Science Fiction Classic, Alien is the story of a group sent to work on a distant system where they come across a dormant species to devastating effect. One of these aliens emerges from an egg and latches itself onto the face of the nearest human. The victim is brought back to their ship and investigated medically. The life-form attached to the human host has a cold perfection about it with vice grip tail and legs to lock onto the head and constrict the neck, with concentrated acid for blood any attempt to remove the alien would be fatal. This provides the alien with an incubation period in which the first stages of its growth can be performed inside the chest cavity of the host. Eventually the alien seemingly dies and falls from the face of the victim, and the human seemingly recovers until the infant alien erupts from the chest to begin terrorising the shipmates, picking them off one by one. Sigourney Weaver as the protagonist Ripley is fantastic, playing this role to perfection. As all the thriller suspense is played out, she tries to halt the alien's progress and you are gripped to your seat. This is one of Ridley Scott's best ever films, it has become a cult sci-fi classic and sparked the making of a saga of sequels including the equally good second part, James Cameron's Aliens.

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