Day 2, In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

In 1979 movie going audiences were gobbling up popcorn in front of any screen with space ships and alien creatures, just as they had 20 years previously. But Alienwas not their fathers Bug Eyed Monster. Ridley Scott, drawing upon the space monster movies of his youth, took H.R. Gigers alien creation and gave it life on the big screen. Catapulting Sigourney Weaver to stardom and reminding the Star Warsgeneration that not all aliens are cute and fuzzy.

The deep space mining ship, the Nostromo is a maze of poorly lit, smoke filled passageways that the beast prowls through. One by one the crew members meet gruesome ends at the hands of the never named alien monster, where the audience barely sees the monster. There is nothing more terrifying then the unknown, what is the beast, why is it doing this, and how can it be stopped?