During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

• DirectorRidley Scott
• Release25 May 1979
• Genre
  Horror / Science Fiction
• Duration1h 57m
• Budget$11,000,000
• Revenue$104,931,801
• Rate
  

  8.166
  15774 reviews
• Productions

  Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions