![]() And as with all great horror, what you didn’t see was what scared you. Like any franchise that reaches critical mass and gains a global cult following, some of the follow-up works have been good some poor. It wasn’t supernatural, but it was otherworldly. Giger’s alien represented an omnipotent, unstoppable antagonist the perfect killing machine. ![]() ![]() Inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2002, the film has won many accolades and left a lasting legacy, spawning a media franchise of sequels and inevitable videogame tie-ins over the last 35 years. Originally labelled a haunted house movie set in space, it created a whole new sub-genre of science fiction horror, kickstarted the careers of Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver, and introducing mainstream audiences to the fantastical works of the late surrealist sculptor and painter, HR Giger. The 1979 film Alien still stands as one of cinema’s most memorable films.
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