When the crew of the Nostromo receives a distress signal from a nearby planet, they decide to check it out. Once there, they discover that it was not a distress signal, instead it was a warning. Unfortunately, three of the crew members have already entered the planet and found a spaceship on it. Inside the spaceship, one of the crew members is attacked by an alien pod and it latches itself to his face. Once back on the Nostromo, the crew tries to get the pod off, only to unleash something worse on the Nostromo, an Alien that will stop at nothing until every single one of the crew members is dead.
The Nostromo is headed home when the crew is awoken from their sleep after receiving an SOS from a nearby planet. They soon decide to check it out and see what is going on. Once on the planet, three crew members decide to get out and check out another spaceship that has landed. This is when Ripley discovers that the SOS was actually a warning. She wants to go and get the three crew members back on the ship, but cannot because they are too far away. Inside the alien spaceship, one of the crew members discover a number of pods. He watches as one of them hatches and grabs on to his face.
The other two crew members bring him back to the Nostromo, but Ripley does not want to let him in because she fears that whatever has happened to him could happen to everyone else. Unfortunately, another crew member does let him in. They take the crew member to the infirmary where they try to remove this creature that is lodged on his face. After cutting it, they discover that this alien’s blood burns through the floor. Later on, the creature removes itself from the crew member’s face, but it has left something inside of him. Growing inside of him is another alien, something that is going to kill each and everyone one of them once it has hatched. Now, no one on the Nostromo is safe until this alien is dead, or until the alien has killed every single one of them.
With the success of Star Wars and Star Trek, Science Fiction movies were becoming very popular in the ’70’s. Then, in 1979, Ridley Scott debuted a film that would forever change the way in which we view alien movies.
Ridley Scott created a film that mixes science fiction with sheer horror as the crew of the Nostromo encounter an alien life form that will stop at nothing until it has devoured every single one of them. Ridley Scott blends in science fiction films with classic monster movies in Alien, leaving the audience with a fright film that lingers long after the credits roll. Alien is an instant classic that should not be missed. It introduces us to a new kind of monster, and a new hero in Ripley. If you have not seen Alien, do yourself a favor and check this movie out. Even over the years, Alien has not lost its touch and I recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of movies in general. I give Alien a 10 out of 10.
It’s the last day of school, and the “popular” girls are planning a slumber party. When the geek of the class, “Science”, who is the brunt of the popular crowd’s torture and jokes gets a whiff of it, he dons a surgeon’s gear and plots a murder scheme for his revenge. Meanwhile at the same time, the local nut “Maniac Randals” has escaped from the mental ward dons his own surgeon’s outfit and goes on his own murderous rampage and coincidentally ends up at the same house.
College coed by day and a stripper by night, Claudia’s dream of becoming a lawyer seems within reach until her co-workers start turning up dead, victims of a brutal serial killer. Can Claudia and her friends stay alive along enough to expose the killer, or will they become the Hatchetman’s next victim?
People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all. In the vein of Squirm, people die gruesome and gory deaths by slippery-slithering SLUGS!
Problem teens in Los Angeles join an inner-city wilderness project in and attempt to get back in touch with life’s priorities, led by do-gooders Holly and Charles. When they get to the campsite, they begin having problems adjusting to the wild life, particularly local marijuana growers using herbal steroids to accelerate plant growth, and the mutated ticks that the leaky steroid system has created.
Made during the horror movie heyday of the late 1930s and early 1940s, this classic suspenseful thriller introduced audiences to one of the most well-known movie monsters; Lon Chaney Jr.’s “Wolf Man”.