Alien (1979) (Stephenverse)

Alien (or stylized as A L I E N ) is a 1979 science-fiction thriller-horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, It is the first film in the Alien franchise. When the movie was released on May 25, 1979, it received mix-to-negative reviews, however, the reception was changed and it is considered to be one of the greatest sci-fi horror movies of all time. In 2002, the film gets preserved in the National Film Registry.

Plot
A commercial space tug USCSS Nostromo is on a return trip back to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis: Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, Warrant Officer Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Science Officer Ash, and two engineers, Parker and Brett. The Nostromo suddenly detects a mysterious transmission from a nearby moon. In response, the ship's computer awakens the seven-man crew from stasis, and the crew members started to get some breakfast, just then, they detected a distress signal from the planet named Acheron (LV-426), and they investigate the signal, the crew detaches the Nostromo from its cargo and they landed onto the moon. Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane and Navigator Lambert set out on foot to investigate the signal's source, while Warrant Officer Ripley, Science Officer Ash, and Engineers Brett and Parker stay behind to monitor their progress and repair damage caused during the unscheduled landing.

On their way, they discovered a bizarre derelict alien spacecraft. Inside, they found the remains of a large alien creature. Meanwhile, the Nostromo's computer partially deciphers the signal coming from the ship and Ripley determines that it is not a distress call as previously assumed, but rather some kind of warning. Back inside the alien spacecraft, Thomas Kane discovers numerous of eggs sitting, he looked closely too the egg, and suddenly, the egg suddenly opens and releases a face-hugger that attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo where Ash allows them inside, defying Ripley's orders to follow the ship's quarantine protocol. They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face. and the Nostromo was fully repaired to resume back to Earth.

On their way back to Earth again, Kane woke up unharmed, and the crew members were having a mealtime at the table, but suddenly, Kane started to choke and convulse, until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him in the process before escaping into the ship. During the search of a alien, Brett follows the crew's cat, Jones, into a large storage room where he encounters the Alien, which has now grown into a formidable being larger than a man. It quickly kills him and flees with his body into the ship's airshafts as Jones watched silently.

Dallas arms himself with a flamethrower and heads into the vents, but the creature ambushes him and disappears with his body. Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the Nostromo's shuttle, but Ripley explains that the shuttle will never support four people at all. Ripley discovers that the Nostromo's corporate employers had known about the Alien all along and that Ash was placed aboard with a secret order to return the creature to them, even at the expense of the crew's lives. Before she can warn the others she is attacked by Ash, who attempts to kill her. She is saved when Parker intervenes, decapitating Ash with a blow from a fire extinguisher and revealing him to be an android. The crew interrogates Ash's remains, and he expresses admiration for the creature's psychology, unhindered by conscience or morality, and taunts them about their chances of survival. Ripley cuts off his power; as they leave, Parker incinerates him in rage.

The survivors plan to arm the Nostromo's self destruct system and take their chances in the shuttle, but Parker and Lambert were killed by the Xenomorph while gathering the necessary supplies, meanwhile, Ripley goes down into the cocooned and they witness Brett and Dallas cocooned while trying to make it to the shuttlecraft, and she burns both them to death. She went back to initiates the self-destruct sequence but finds the alien blocking her path to the shuttle. She retreats and attempts unsuccessfully to abort the self-destruct, and heads for the shuttle with Jones the cat, but finds the Xenomorph blocking her way. Cut off from escape, but she retreats and attempts unsuccessfully to abort the self-destructs, without any other options, Ripley and Jones the cat make their way to the escape pod as the count down with the Nostromo self-destructs, and as they flew away from the Nostromo, the entire cargo ship Nostromo explodes.

As Ripley and Jones are prepared to enter stasis, she discovers that the Xenomorph is on aboard, having wedged itself into a narrow space. She puts on a spacesuit and uses gas to flush the creature out, trying to blow the Alien out with the resultant explosive decompression, but it grips onto the doorway. She shoots it with a grappling gun, but the gun catches as the airlock door closes, tethering the alien to the shuttle. It pulls itself into an engine exhaust but Ripley fires the engines, blasting the creature away. Ripley broadcasts a distress call with "Final report: A commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting, the other members, Kane, Lamber, Parker, Breet, Ash, and Captain Dallas are dead. Cargo ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up...This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." after her final report, she enters to the stasis with Jones the cat, and the film ends.

Critical Response
The movie received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. However, over time its reputation has changed and it is now considered to be an influential and classic sci-fi horror movie, earning a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and four stars from Roger Ebert, who at first hated the film.

The film has won one Academy Award (Best Visual Effects for H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling), and three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Ridley Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Veronica Cartwright).

Difference compared to the real-life release

 * The film was released with a deleted cocoon scene.