Alien

Science fiction horror movie

An SOS signal wakes the crew of a space freighter from an artificial deep sleep. The call for help comes from an inhospitable planet where the crew finds the wreckage of an alien spaceship. Upon entering the wreckage, a crew member is attacked by an alien. Thus begins an almost hopeless battle against an alien and deadly organism...
First action film with a woman as the heroine.
The creator of "Alien" is the neo-surrealist Swiss artist HR Giger, who received an Oscar for his work.
Oscar in the "Best Visual Effects" category and an Oscar nomination in the "Best Production Design" category.
"An extremely exciting, stylistically brilliant variation on the science fiction motif of the threat posed by an extraterrestrial creature, with clear sexual-psychological accents. A film with a perfectly developed dramaturgy of suspense; the dark nightmare worlds were designed by the painter HR Giger." (Dictionary of International Film)