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.
Details
- Release date
- 1979-05-25
- Duration
- 01:57
- Categories
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Studios
- Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions
- Country
- United States of America, United Kingdom
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Status
- Released
- Votes
- 16,169
- Budget
- $11,000,000
- Revenue
- $104,931,801
Top cast
Tom Skerritt
Sigourney Weaver
Veronica Cartwright
Harry Dean Stanton
John Hurt
Ian Holm
Yaphet Kotto
Bolaji Badejo
Helen Horton
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