Alien Page #3

Synopsis: A commercial crew aboard the deep space towing vessel, Nostromo is on its way home when they pick up an SOS warning from a distant moon. What they don't know is that the SOS warning is not like any other ordinary warning call. Picking up the signal, the crew realizes that they are not alone on the spaceship when an alien stowaway is on the cargo ship.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Ridley Scott
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 16 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
1979
116 min
Website
5,411 Views


Are you there, Ripley?

We're clean, let us in.

- What happened to Kane?

- Something attached itself to him.

What kind of thing?

An organism. Open the hatch!

If we let it in, the ship could be infected.

You know the quarantine procedure.

- 24 hours for decontamination.

- He could die. Open the hatch.

Listen to me.

We break quarantine, we could all die.

Could you open the goddamn hatch?

We have to get him inside!

No. I can't, and if you were

in my position you'd do the same.

Ripley, this is an order.

Open that hatch, do you hear me?

- Yes.

- Ripley, this is an order! Do you hear me?

Yes. I read you. The answer is negative.

Inner hatch open.

My God.

What the hell is that?

Jesus Christ.

What is that, man?

- Hey, how the hell's he breathing?

- He still alive or what?

And why don't you guys freeze him?

How come they don't freeze him?

What's going on in there?

- What the f*** is going on?

- You b*tch!

- Jesus Christ!

- Hey! Hey!

- You were gonna leave us out there!

- Hey, break it up.

When I give an order,

I expect to be obeyed!

- Even if it's against the law?

- You're goddamn right!

She has a point.

Who the hell knows what that is?

How are we gonna get that off of him?

- How are we gonna get it off?

- Just a minute! I'll get some instruments.

Right. Now, if I make an incision here

to try and remove

one of the digits from his face...

You're gonna do what?

Finger. I'll try and get this finger off.

Get this cleating on there...

- It's tearing his scalp!

- I know!

It's not coming off

without tearing his face off with it.

We'll have to take a look at him inside.

How come they don't freeze him?

How come you guys don't freeze him?

You can take your mask off.

- What's it got down his throat?

- I would suggest it's feeding him oxygen.

Paralyses him, puts him in a coma,

then keeps him alive.

What the hell is that?

- We've got to get it off him.

- Just a minute.

Let's not be too hasty.

We don't know anything about...

it.

We're assuming it's feeding him oxygen.

If we remove it, it could kill him.

I'll take that chance.

Let's cut it off him now.

- You take responsibility?

- Yes, yes. Get him out of there.

Where do you want to do this?

We'll make an incision

just below the knuckle there.

- Right here?

- Stand by.

Good God!

That crap's gonna eat through the hull.

I think it's going to eat through

the goddamn hull. Come on!

What's going on?

This way.

Next deck.

There it is.

Don't get under it!

Looks like it's stopping.

Take a look at this, man.

Brett, give me your pen.

Give it to me, quick.

Come on, come on!

Don't get any on your arm.

It's stopped.

I haven't seen anything like that,

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Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, director, visual effects supervisor, and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.O'Bannon is best known for having written the screenplay for Alien, adapted from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett. He also contributed computer animation to Star Wars, worked on cult classics such as Dark Star, Heavy Metal, and Total Recall, and wrote and directed the horror comedy The Return of the Living Dead. more…

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