| In space, no one can hear you scream. |
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| written by sfspaz |
January 13, 2004 - 4:02 PM PST |
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Though imatations have peppered screens for decades, none have really come close to the fascination, suspense, and dread that Ridley Scott's classic invokes in its viewers.
Ridley Scott's cold and bleak vision of space sets the stage effectively for H.R.Giger's near-pornographic alien imagery, for which the movie won deserved acclaim. Sigourney Weaver single-handedly creates the female horror hero by being the first women not only to survive the movie monster, but to defeat it (and in her underwear to boot).
The brilliance of the movie, at least in part, is the variety of ways in which the viewer is made to squirm. Fear of suffocation, penetration, impregnation are themes which resound in the film, making the choice of Sigourney Weaver as the reluctant hero all the more profound (the script was written so that the lead could be played by a male or female).
Grand, compelling, and still terribly frightening even 20 years later.
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