Reviewed By: Paul Mount

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto,

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As this disappointing summer of distinctly average blockbusters draws to a close, it's nice to welcome back – for a limited period only, admittedly – a familiar old f(r)iend to show the new boys how to do it. ALIEN is back on the big screen – and it's really the only place to see this classic sci-fi horror movie, now looking and sounding better than ever before.

ALIEN, incredibly only director Ridley Scott's second feature – is a certified classic film. Directed with supreme confidence and with an impressive mastery of the genre's tropes, the film has lost none of its edge or power over the last twenty-four years and, despite quantum leaps in technology which make ALIEN looked positively prehistoric (purely from a visual effects perspective, you understand), the lack of slick, soulless CGI and the presence of a tight, inte