Rating: R
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 05/25/1979(USA),
Release Date: 06/01/1999
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Gore, Sci-Fi Violence
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
"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
;)
