Have You Seen: Alien (1979)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we watched Ridley Scott's Alien from 1979, a classic science fiction horror movie widely regarded as one of the best horror sci fi movies of all time that spawned a franchise that has endured almost 50 years. In the movie the crew of the spaceship Nostromo encounters a deadly extraterrestrial after investigating a mysterious distress signal on a desolate planetoid.We talk about our reactions to what Alien is like through fresh eyes in 2024, why it holds up and how it realises its themes of alienness and isolation in space where noone can hear you scream, and whether this applies to the upcoming Alien: Romulus.