Today's horror movie will probably be familiar to nearly everyone reading this: Ridley Scott's Alien. It is a surprisingly haunting sci-fy flick that features a young Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, a futuristic officer of a space craft. When her ship gets strange signals from a planet, they find themselves face to face with a parasitic alien who has two sets of sharp teeth, an egglant-shaped head, and, oh yes, acid in the place of blood. The creature begins picking off the crew one-by-one, leaving Ripley to try to save herself and the ship from the creepy alien.
While it isn't available to watch instantly yet, you can still rent Alien from Netflix. If you're like me, however, you may want to go ahead and buy this from Amazon... In the meantime, check out the infamous scene below:
P.S. In the original script, the character of Ripley was supposed to be male-- until Sigourney Weaver came along, that is....
P.S.S. The alien was designed by artist H.R. Giger, famous for his futuristic, gothic art. Several sketches had to be discarded because of sexually explicit material....
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