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Summary:
"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... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Tom Skerritt - (Dallas)
Sigourney Weaver - (Ellen Ripley)
Veronica Cartwright - (Lambert)
Yaphet Kotto - (Parker)
Harry Dean Stanton - (Brett)
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Review:
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 fu... Continue >>

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