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They are one of the most terrifying monsters in cinema history. Cinema-goers shrieked with fright in 1979 when, out of nowhere, an alien burst out of John Hurt's chest, beginning the start of one of ...

Forty years ago, a sci-fi horror film came along that set a new bar for the genre — Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien. To mark the film's anniversary this year, filmmaker Alexandre Philippe has made a ...

Ridley Scott’s Alien was perhaps the first movie to reveal the true terrors of space, where no one can hear you scream. The 1979 horror sci-fi classic gave us spine-tingling new special effects and a ...