Alien Trailer HD (Original 1979 Ridley Scott Film) Sigourney Weaver

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Get pumped for Prometheus, watch the original trailer for ALIEN,
remember in space no one can hear you scream!

The commercial towing spaceship Nostromo is on a return trip from Thedus to Earth, hauling a refinery and twenty million tons of mineral ore, and carrying its seven-member crew in stasis. Upon receiving a transmission of unknown origin from a nearby planetoid, the ship's computer awakens the crew.[13] Acting on standing orders from their corporate employers, the crew detaches the Nostromo from the refinery and lands on the planetoid, resulting in some damage to the ship. Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt), and Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) set out to investigate the signal's source while Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm), and Engineers Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) and Parker (Yaphet Kotto) stay behind to monitor their progress and make repairs.

Dallas, Kane, and Lambert discover that the signal is coming from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside it they find the remains of a large alien creature whose ribs appear to have been exploded outward from the inside. Meanwhile, the Nostromo's computer partially deciphers the signal transmission, which Ripley determines to be some type of warning. Kane discovers a vast chamber containing numerous eggs, one of which releases a creature that attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo, where Ash allows them inside against Ripley's orders to follow the ship's quarantine protocol. They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, discovering that its blood is an extremely corrosive acid. Eventually the creature detaches on its own and is found dead. With the ship repaired, the crew resume their trip back to Earth.

Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins to choke and convulse until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and escaping into the ship. Lacking conventional weapons, the crew attempt to locate and capture the creature by fashioning motion trackers, electric prods, and flamethrowers. Brett follows the crew's cat into a large room where the now-fully-grown Alien attacks him and disappears with his body into the ship's air shafts. Dallas enters the shafts intending to force the Alien into an airlock where it can be expelled into space, but it ambushes him. Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that the shuttle will not support four people.

Accessing the ship's computer, Ripley discovers that Ash has been ordered to return the Alien to the Nostromo's corporate employers even at the expense of the crew's lives. Ash attacks her, but Parker intervenes and decapitates him with a blow from a fire extinguisher, revealing Ash to be an android. Before Parker incinerates him, Ash predicts that the other crew members will not survive. The remaining three crew members plan to arm the Nostromo's self-destruct mechanism and escape in the shuttle, but Parker and Lambert are killed by the Alien while gathering the necessary supplies. Ripley initiates the self-destruct sequence and heads for the shuttle with the cat, but finds the Alien blocking her way. She unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct, then returns to find the Alien gone and narrowly escapes in the shuttle as the Nostromo explodes.

As she prepares to enter stasis, Ripley discovers that the Alien is aboard the shuttle. She puts on a space suit and opens the hatch, causing explosive decompression which forces the Alien to the open doorway. She shoots it with a grappling gun which propels it out, but the gun is yanked from her hands and catches in the closing door, tethering the Alien to the shuttle. It attempts to crawl into one of the engines, but Ripley activates them and blasts the Alien into space. She then puts herself and the cat into stasis for the return trip to Earth.

[TJ]

This is what everyone who makes trailers for a living should aim to achieve. This trailer made me scared to watch a movie I'd already seen.

[Dill_Pickle]

In space, no one can hear you scream
The ultimate film version of a mic drop

[InTheRhettRow]

If this was made now it would show the alien in the first 30 seconds.

[MillsProductions]

This is how trailers should be made today. It doesn't show too much, it doesn't spoil the movie, and it get people interested. Damn, its one unsettling trailer.

[EclipseHedgehog]

"In space, no one can here you scream" is the single most genious tag line anyone has come up with in cinema. Not only are you alone, miles upon miles upon miles away from earth, you're trapped. No one knows you're in danger, nor is anyone coming to help you.

[ZakRobinsonMusicOfficial]

That siren is still spine chilling even now...

[nutyyyy]

In my opinion this is and always will be one of the best trailers of all time, it creeps you the hell out, but does not spoil plot points and doesn't waste time with dialogue to 'explain' the movie. Lots of trailers at this time were horrendous with cheesy voice overs, and today we get too much repetition with the inception horns and fade to black with a big bwaaaah and explosion, in other words great trailers have always been pretty rare.

[zeemaster]

The way it goes from low droning to sirens to chaos and screaming for 10 seconds only for it to abruptly cut out with the shot of the tiny ship and the tagline is so damn good. Hell of a trailer.

[Oquane]

Is there an award for best trailer?  Because holy crap, this deserves it!

[LPMAN]

RIP the cast members of Alien 
Helen Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007), aged 83
Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017), aged 91
Sir Ian Holm (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020), aged 88
Yaphet Kotto (November 15, 1939 – March 15, 2021), aged 81
Sir John Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017), aged 77
Bolaji Badejo (August 23, 1953 – December 22, 1992), aged 39
You will be remembered as legends.

[Batman]

Crazy how much this trailer holds up. 35+ years old and it still feels very modern.

I've seen Alien 100 times and this makes me want to see it for the 101st time.

[sablebranwen]

I love the fact that they don't reveal the Alien and yet it still manages to creep you out. Ingenious. It's the fear of the unknown that this movie employs so well. This is my favorite horror movie ever.

[mackb]

Scary as hell, and without one word of dialogue or exposition. Pure artistry.

[ChrisWolff]

It's mind-bowing that right after this Ridley made Blade Runner. Two home runs in a row. The man's an amazing director.

[matthewbyrd]

Damn! If my parents would have seen that trailer, they never would have let me go see that movie when I was 12! So glad I got to see that in the theaters in 1979!! As a 12 year-old, it scared THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!! LOVE IT!!!!

[IdleDrifter]

Hollywood this is how you do a trailer. You give the audience an idea what's in the movie but you leave it a mystery to entice their curiosity.

[moshomaniac]

42 years old, and still one of the most effective trailers I’ve ever seen. Notice they tell you nothing whatsoever about the plot, but show only snippets from the film with the siren blaring in the background. This is how you make a trailer.

[theseageek]

The trailer itself is a perfect match with the tag line: in space no one can hear you scream - after all the chaos in the trailer, everything returns to silence when it pans out to looking at the ship from far distance and when the tag line emerges... The comparison between what happens on the ship versus when you look at the ship from a distance on the outside is so ingenious. The atmosphere of helplessness is so haunting....
why can't today's trailers be this perfectly orchestrated? Today we have become too concentrated on the competition of box office, we've forgotten what a movie is really about...

[christianfrazier]

The Shining and Alien are two perfect examples of amazing trailers. Both had creepy music that made your stomach cringe, they didn't spoil the movie by showing barely or any images, and they both left you dazed and confused.

[Anakinskywalker]

This is how you stop kids from wanting to be astronauts