Alien - Trailer #1

Alien, American science-fiction–horror film, released in 1979 and directed by Ridley Scott, that chronicles the struggle of the crew of a deep-space commercial spacecraft to survive an encounter with a terrifying alien creature. The film stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, and John Hurt. Alien, which won widespread critical acclaim, is regarded as a classic of the genre and has significantly influenced later science-fiction, horror, and action films. Alien’s poster, which shows an eerie green light emitting from a crack in the shell of an alien egg (which resembles a creepy smile), carries the iconic tagline, “In space no one can hear you scream.” The film was inducted into the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress in 2002 as a work that is “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” to America’s film heritage.