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Release Date:

Jun 22, 1979

Runtime:

1hr 57m

Synopsis

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

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it was great to experience alien on the big screen

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Luke T
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great night. love the 10 min preview of COVERANT

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Metacritic

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Based on 34 Critics
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USER SCORE (1367)

Universal acclaim based on 1367 Reviews
100

Editors Terry Rawlings and Peter Weatherley cut the film so cleverly so that we never have a clear notion of what the alien actually looks like until the very last shots.

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Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
100

Just as Ripley is the female action hero against whom all others are judged, so the alien itself, brilliantly conceived by HR Giger and, equally brilliantly, concealed by Scott and kept in shadow for much of the film, is one of the most terrifying monsters in cinema history.

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Wendy Ide
Screen Daily
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