107: Alien

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact and significance of the 1979 horror film Alien.

On the podcast no one can hear you scream. This week we're taking a look at the horror movie hingepoint in 1979, Alien. Before Star Wars there wasn't a studio on earth that wanted to make an expensive science fiction movie and after Star Wars they couldn't find enough scripts to get expensive science fiction movies into production. Alien was one of the first ones to come out of the gate that wasn't a cheap ripoff of George Lucas's masterpiece. It was worlds apart from the recent space movie hits. It featured no highly competent astronauts traveling to Jupiter and no dashing heroes in star fighters, wielding light sabers. Instead, Ridley Scott delivered a quiet, slow-moving horror movie featuring blue collar characters just trying to get by on a commercial tow vessel. At the same time, they delivered one of the most suspenseful horror movies with one of the strongest casts and one of the most iconic monster designs by world-class artists. It is truly one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Alien sees the crew of the Nostromo rerouted to a planet nearby where a crashed alien vessel sends out a radio signal that they interpret as a distress call. By the time the ship's…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan White, David White

Topics covered

• horror movies
• science fiction
• film reviews
• 1979 cinema
• suspense
• iconic monster designs

Keywords

• Alien
• Ridley Scott
• horror
• suspense
• science fiction
• 1979
• Nostromo
• biomechanical alien

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nostromo

Books & works: Alien, Star Wars

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