Alien (1979) - The Alien Appears Scene (3/5) | Movieclips

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
While looking for the cat, Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) meets the alien.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas's (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company.

CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1979)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Ridley Scott
Producers: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ivor Powell, Ronald Shusett
Screenwriters: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

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[theproficientamplifiedgame]

This is the type of Alien Xenomorph I like. It was stealthy and patient with his kills.

[nileshdarunde]

cat - everything gone according to plan

[tiffsaver]

I think Ridley was a genius for not showing the alien too much. By just revealing a tiny bit of the creature at a time, he allowed the viewer to fill in the missing pieces, and nothing is more terrifying than your own imagination.

[hpc]

Somehow this looks 1000% better than most sci fi movies 42 years later

[Lammyever]

As a cat owner, I think the cat actually looks pretty scared while the guy is getting killed. Good little kitty actor. What you think is, "Ha, ha, stupid human" is actually, "If I stay still and quiet, it won't find me."

[callmemirko]

Part of me wants to watch this movie, and part of me wants to sleep at night.

[Dvenchy]

How the hell did they train the cat to look scared out of its wits?

[bangthehankers]

This scene is better in the extended edition, or whatever it is you got with the Quadrilogy. In that version you get a camera shot of the swinging chains and what looks like a piece of industrial equipment or machinery hanging off them. It's not center screen, and it's dead still so it doesn't really draw attention. It is actually the Alien, but up until this point you had no idea what it looks like. It's freaking brilliant.

[Jr-El]

The way director Ridley Scott focuses on the cat watching the horror unfold, seeing the cat's expression while most of it is happening off screen--is just an awesome shot. I love how this film uses another species to show how terrifying they are towards the Xenomorph.

Correction: I meant "how terrified they are about the Xenomorph.

[hahhahahah]

The cats like -thats what you get for not buying me friskeies wet food

[MLFreese]

2:02
Cat: "I admire its purity. A survivor. Unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."

[jamesroboyle]

That cat deserved an Academy Award Nomination. Such Emotion 😂

[Person-exbx]

Love the atmosphere in this movie. It’s so well done

[VeritechGirl]

I prefer this kind of alien, rather than the insect-like suicidal drones. I'm not hating on Aliens, I just like this approach better

[clairestark]

"2:02-"well the meat providers are outclassed by the big new thing so I shall hide"

[winterlogical]

Absolutely amazing aspect of this scene is the sound editing - pay close attention to this movie next time you watch it - every time the Alien appears or is about to kill someone, there is a very faint heartbeat in the background. Not a heartbeat that represents the humans about to die - it’s the Alien’s heartbeat. It’s a level, relaxed heartbeat. Terrifyingly adds to the horror elements. Simply a fantastic addition to really add the stress to already terrifying scenes.

[nateebanks]

A hidden gem I actually love about this film is that every crew members death scene is actually their first time witnessing the fully grown alien, so we see all of their true terror before they die. Underrated horror note after seeing this movie a couple of times

[jvogler_art]

This scene is pure visual art. The isolating shot composition, the industrial sci-fi set design, the lighting. Horror at its finest.

[wizzzer]

my uncle who was 18 at the 1977 took my 10 year old dad to watch this movie with him, he told me the movie gave him nightmares for weeks, and at that time there wasn't anything even close to it.

[dnasty]

"Right."

Godspeed, Harry 1926-2017