ALIEN

Enormously influential film thanks to its brilliant design by H R Giger, visceral special effects and its dynamic heroine. Its plot may be borrowed from THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, but it delivers handsomely.

Director Ridley Scott

Science Fiction 1979, colour/Panavision 117 mins, Fox

Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

AA: Visual Effects AAN: Art Direction