A terrifying science-fiction masterpiece from director Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in the first of her iconic performances as Ripley, ALIEN (1979) was ranked as the seventh greatest sci-fi film of all time by the American Film Institute, in addition to earning a place on AFI’s accounting of the art form’s most thrilling narratives. The film’s uncanny extraterrestrial antagonist was also counted by AFI among cinema’s most chilling villains.
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