Alien [20th Anniversary Edition] DVD

Alien
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Cast Tom Skerritt as Dallas Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley Veronica Cartwright as Lambert Yaphet Kotto as Parker Harry Dean Stanton as Brett John Hurt as Kane Ian Holm as Ash

Crew Roger Christian - Art Director Leslie Dilley - Art Director Mary Goldberg - Casting Mary Selway - Casting Lionel Newman - Conductor John Mollo - Costume Designer Roger Dicken - Costume Designer Paul Ibbetson - First Assistant Director Ridley Scott - Director Terry Rawlings - Editor Peter Weatherly - Editor Ronald Shusett - Executive Producer Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score) Lionel Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision Adrian Biddle - Camera Operator Michael Seymour - Production Designer Anton Furst - Production Designer Leslie Dilley - Production Designer Derek Vanlint - Cinematographer David Giler - Producer Gordon Carroll - Producer Walter Hill - Producer Ian Whittaker - Set Designer Carlo Rambaldi - Special Effects Bernard Lodge - Special Effects Brian Johnson - Special Effects Nick Allder - Special Effects Ronald Shusett - Screen Story Dan O'Bannon - Screen Story Dan O'Bannon - Screenwriter H.R. Giger - Creature Design Martin Bower - Model Effects Supervisor Howard Hanson - Featured Music

Alien
Combining science fiction with horror, Swiss artist H.R. Giger's alien design and Carlo Rambaldi's visual effects creepily meld technology with corporeality, creating a claustrophobic environment that is coldly mechanical yet horribly anthropomorphized, like the metallic monster itself. Director Ridley Scott keeps the alien out of full view, hiding it in the dark or camouflaging it in the workings of the Nostromo. Signs of '70s cultural upheaval permeate Alien's future world, from the relationship between corporate capitalism and rapacious monstrosity to the heterogeneous crew and Ripley's forceful horror heroine. The intense frights and gross-outs, however, are credited with making Alien one of the biggest hits of 1979 (it premiered on the two-year anniversary of Star Wars); Giger, Rambaldi, et al. won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Alien went on to spawn three genre-bending sequels (and reconditioned Ripleys): exceptional '80s actioner Aliens (1986), dark prison drama Alien 3 (1992), and exotically grotesque Alien Resurrection (1997). With its atmospheric isolation, implacable monster, and whiff of social conscience, Alien stands as one of the more thoughtful yet utterly terrifying horror films of the 1970s. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 

Brian Johnson: Academy, Best Visual Effects (winner) Carlo Rambaldi: Academy, Best Visual Effects (winner) H.R. Giger: Academy, Best Visual Effects (winner) Ian Whittaker: Academy, Best Art Direction (nominated) Michael Seymour: Academy, Best Art Direction (nominated) Michael Seymour: British Academy Awards, Best Art Direction (winner) Nick Allder: Academy, Best Visual Effects (winner) Roger Christian: Academy, Best Art Direction (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DDS: Dolby Digital Surround Additional Features: Audio commentary by Ridley Scott Deleted scenes Artwork and photo galleries Original storyboards Alternate music track DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 116 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Scene Selection 1. Main Titles [2:20] 2. Early to Rise [2:20] 3. Rough Landing [4:34] 4. Walking Distance [3:29] 5. Dead a Long Time [3:32] 6. Eggs or Something [4:15] 7. A Wonderful Defense Mechanism [3:18] 8. Missing a Guest [4:14] 9. Taking Off [2:23] 10. Last Supper [:34] 11. Seek and Destroy [5:11] 12. "Here Kitty" [:25] 13. No Blood, No Dallas [9:14] 14. A Confrontation with Ash [:25] 15. Priority One [4:30] 16. Scared Stiff [2:40] 17. Destruct System Activated [1:01] 18. T Minus Thirty Seconds [3:27] 19. The Last Survivors [5:27] 20. End Titles [7:28]