Alien (1979) Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial ...

The Alien franchise may be host (a charged word around these parts) to some of the best sci-fi movies of all time, but it's still suffers from something many long-running film series do: an ...