"Ash, that transmission - Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S." A routine mineral transporting job for the crew of commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, is interrupted when the Company intercepts a signal from a deserted planet and orders them to investigate. What they find is an alien spaceship full of eggs, and Kane (John Hurt) is attacked by one of the parasitic eggs they then realise the signal is a warning. With Ash (Ian Holm) overruling Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and letting the crew members who were attacked (and the alien) on board their ship, the hunt is then on to find and kill the alien. But then the crew find out that they are dispensable, and that the Company has plans for this alien lifeform.
A tremendous piece of work from Ridley Scott, brings a real sense of tension to the cat and mouse games. So much so it spawned three sequels.
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