_THIS_ is an example of a strong female character. Ellen Ripley was terrified, exhausted and vulnerable. Yet she pushed through it and survived.

This was Sigourney Weaver's first movie. She was an unknown aspiring actress. She played it so well, you could feel her terror. I saw this in a theater, it was packed. The entire audience reacted together. You could hear the screams outside through the walls of the theater. It was a different world back then.

"The build-up is taking a lot out of me". That is the brilliance of Alien in one sentence. Seeing this in a dark theater with people stressed out all around you was amazing back in the day. :-)

Imagine a dark, crowded theater watching this in 1979-1980. I remember at the end when Ripley was getting Jonesy, the Cat, someone in the audience screamed" F**K the Cat". A bunch of us laughed, cutting the tension. This movie was the most suspenseful, terrifying movie of its time.

Alien is one of the most horrifying and dread inspiring blockbuster movies of all time. You're not a wimp for being affected by it, and anyone who gives you shit for it is an edgelord or a psychopath.

I think the tears are coming because you are embracing the complete hopelessness conveyed in this masterpiece.

My mom told me she and her best friend went to the movies to see this while she was pregnant for me. The scene where the alien burst out of the dude's chest at the dinner table scared her best friend so badly, she got up and left the theater. Mom had to go after her big and pregnant, both ended up not finishing the movie.

A friend of mine saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out. He missed the chest-bursting scene because he went to the bathroom. He came back to the theatre to find the entire audience in chaos.

Oh, boy! I am, of course, particularly looking forward to this one. "Alien" has been in our culture, lived in our heads, for 43 years. It's strength has not suffered. So excited to share it anew with a viewer I enjoy. Thanks, ya'll. See you!

An absolute masterpiece of a movie. So frikkin' good in every way and detail.

"How did it get this big this fast?!" They didn't explain in the movie but there was actually a day or two that passed while they were building the trackers and makeshift weapons to use against the creature. In the meantime, it was gorging itself on stored organic and inorganic supplies throughout the ship and growing at an accellerated rate.

You know how good a movie is when it transcends its genre. Alien is a masterful film.

This movie is like 43 years old now. Really a classic.

We need to have Arianna play Alien Isolation for her to lose her shit completely. Well done as always!

I believe the original movie posters had the quote “In Space No One Can Hear You Scream”… As far as crying it depends on the movie and how well it does a good job getting you emotionally invested. Can’t wait for you to watch Aliens next.

Incredible reaction! During the chestburster scene, the actors weren't told exactly what would happen, just that the guy would be on the table freaking out, so their reactions of shock, and horror were totally real.

Don't knock yourself Arianna! When this film first hit the cinemas it quite literally scared the living shit out of all audiences. It also firmly established a new genre of film: Science Fiction Horror! The second instalment, 'Aliens', was released barely six years later and its mere existence in theatres created such great fearful anxiety that returning viewers were reluctant to take their seats before this feature began! That is the power of motion pictures!

Never seen a reaction with tears. I think it may have something to do with the sheer isolation and inevitability of it all. The characters are established quickly and believably and all the actors sell their emotions really well, Weaver most of all. Just an unmatched film.

6:10 this was massive set piece designed by the late HR Giger. Also the actors in this scene are actually Ridley Scott's kids in costumes.

I forgot how terrifying this movie is. She had a very visceral reaction.

Sigourney Weaver took over cinema with this performance. She's so damn good.

Love the shot of the cat, watching the man die with no emotion.

I'm 35 years old. my father is a huge fan of this film. I remember always being drawn towards the action figures and posters he had in his art room. I think I was about 7 when he showed me this film. to this day the opening title sequence paralyzes me to this day. this is the one horror film will always be my favorite for nostalgia reasons and it just being a great film. also brought my girlfriend and I closer cause we had the same experience growing up. we have alien plushes scattered around the house lol

I still watch Alien, Aliens, Predator 1 and 2 even to this day. Absolute classics.

You know it's an excellent movie when it's still this good after all these years. One of the best films of its genre out there. Glad you got to react to this one. Hope you do the next one as well.

Another game changing movie.... Was supposed to simply be an "answer" to the surprise of Star Wars but then some crazy idiot gave it to Ridley Scott and suddenly SciFi had staggering weight and intensity!

What sets 'Alien' apart from other horror movies is that we can relate to characters. They are just simple workers trying to make a living. All the dialogue, jokes, messing around with co-workers make them so relatable to us. You don't get that feeling with other movies because the characters are just meat to be killed by a monster.

This movie has been traumatizing people for over 40 years now. It's amazing how well it holds up and still scares the crap out of people. The chestburster scene is iconic for a reason! Wouldn't it be great if this film had a sequel that is not only an equally amazing 10/10 but an ACTION horror movie? WELL GOOD NEWS!

I had the honor of seeing this at the Theater with my dad and cousin when I was 14. It was my first R-Rated movie and it did not disappoint! I was never so scared seeing this on the big screen. 40 years later, it came back to the big screen and my son (23) and I went and saw it in it's natural goriness. Maybe in space no one can hear you scream, but in a theater, everyone can! Next is Aliens!

Great reaction to another classic horror film. I greatly suggest that Arianna and Maple react to Aliens together.

I'm glad you saw this "blind", not really knowing what it was about. in 1979, the trailers for it showed absolutely nothing about it. not who was in it, what specifically it was about. all the trailers showed was an egg with a crack in it, eerie green light spilling of the crack, and the tag line: "In space, no one can hear you scream." Everyone went to see it on the big screen blind. and consider: this was all done practical. the only CGI were the graphics seen on the monochromatic computer screens on the ship.

Just imagine..... this movie is 43 years old and it STILL scares the crap out of first time viewers today! That's how GOOD this movie really is! Just a timeless masterpiece!

Alien was groundbreaking and really raised the bar for Sci-fi horror. One of my all time favorites.

One thing that I always think is cool is how drastically films like this overestimated where our hardware building capabilities would be “in the future” but underestimated our software building capabilities. Lol this massive, amazing spaceship with cryopods and a cyborg is being run by like a Commodore 64 operating system 🤣🤣

Ridley Scott said, "I was making the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in space horror movie, where there is no place to escape to, and the alien was going to take out the crew one by one." Ridley succeeded beyond his own expectations, I think.

I was able to see this on the big screen about 2015 or so. It was amazing to see that this movie has claustrophobic feeling on the big screen. VHS, DVD, BluRay, 4K all make you feel cramped with the crew.

Thank you for such an amazing and visceral reaction to such a great classic! Its always awesome watching someone experience it for the first time :)

These were all top notch actors who brought serious skills and heart to their roles. All of the characters had personality that you could humanly relate to. Except for Ashe, you didn't want to see any of them die. That's why you cried.

I saw this movie countless times...absolutely horrifying brilliance !! One of my top ten movies of all time. 👏🏽👏🏽

The great thing about the crew of the Nostromo is that they immediately figured out the Xenomorphs' acidic blood just by observing the behavior of it as it melted through the ship. A lot of modern horror characters are absolutely clueless even when they see something happening right in front of them, so to see the Nostromo crew figure stuff out right away is part of the brilliance of the film.

I'm only 32yrs but I've been raised with 70-80 movies (I was raised by my granpa). It's cool to see younger generations look at these movies today and are like "omg this is soooo good!!!". Some of these movies aged like a good whine. Like Terminator 2. Most of this movie as better FX and practical effects than todays movies and it don't age.

THIS right here should be an awesome/hysterical/entertaining reaction to say the least. I for one am here for it.

I first saw this movie at theater back in the early 80's. I was 7. Very scary for a little kid, I couldn't even sit in my seat. It remains as one of my favorites of all time.

I agree. Mother’s voice is very calming. It makes the situation seem not so serious. “The emergency destruct system has now been activated.”

Excellent, heartfelt reactions. Arianna, I have watched this movie many, many times. It was easy for me to become emotionally attached to the characters. The Cocoon scene is very disturbing, and somewhat difficult to watch. As many times as I have seen this movie, I still tense-up and break into a sweat! Amazing Cast; I cannot think of anyone better for this film. Tom Skerritt, “Captain Dallas”, is now age 88 (still active in the film industry), and is the only surviving male cast member, including the young man who portrayed the Alien (he died quite young). Sigourney and Veronica are alive and well. A perfect film, in every way!

There’s a subplot in the longer version of the movie where Ripley and Dallas were seeing each other. Near the end of the movie, Ripley finds the crew cocooned by the alien but beyond help…still alive for the most part.

I saw this movie when I was very young and it scarred me for life. The only way I can watch it now is through a reaction. It STILL makes me on edge.

The movie made it to Turkey in 1981 and i'm proud to tell that my mother was pregnant with me when they were watching the movie in theater with my father :) Giger's Xenomorph is one of the most breathtaking (no pun intended) alien life forms ever designed. Timeless classic. Great reaction!

Absolute masterpiece of a movie!! Beautifully filmed and creepy as hell.

Love this movie to bits, I remember this movie traumatizing me as a teenager and I've loved it ever since. Ellen Ripley is literally my movie heroine, I've always wanted to be just like her an ass kicking, take no s**t survivor that uses determination and intelligence to make it through any situation.

I remember sitting in the theater as a teenager watching this movie, sitting way down in the chair , peeping through my fingers, with a knot in my stomach. The Alien busting out my man’s chest left me traumatize for a few years. The tension, suspense, and the leaving things to your imagination is what made this film such a classic !!!👍🏽👍🏽

fun fact... the actors did not know how the alien was going to present it's self. so the surprise and shock is so genuine that the scene becomes that much more powerful.

Im still amazed how good the Alien design look. Hans Ruedi Giger i salute you

Arianna, wonderful reaction and commentary. You even made me jump😁Thank you so much. I really enjoyed seeing this movie again with your reactions added. Looking forward to the next one. 🙂looking forward to the one after this, "Aliens" Thank you.

Arianna's smile faded so quickly when Kane started "choking" right before the burst. 😂

27:49 Because this movie, unlike most horror films, actually makes you *care* about the characters. That's how ahead of its time Alien was. Even today, this film has been untouched by time and is still a masterpiece of cinema.

What a great reaction! Thanks for another Arianna.

Great reactions to a great movie, but you will love the next one. Totally loved your reactions and attitude, very cool.

During the chest bursting scene none of the actors were informed about it and they were genuinely freaking out!

I'm so old that it's hard for me to believe that someone might not know what Alien (film or franchise) is about... But seeing it as a reaction video like yours is actually refreshing ! Congrats from France !

*Arianna's BEST ALIEN MOMENTS* Here let me hug 🤗 your face 8:04 CHESTBURSTER 14:00 First encounter with the Fully grown Xenomorph 18:28 2nd Xenomorph attack in Jeffrey's tube 20:18 Ashe's dirty Little secret 22:08 Lambert's ménage à trois with a Xenomorph 26:37 TOASTY!!!! 😱 31:32

Movies aren't made like this nowadays. Modern movies are all about how much CGI and tropes you can cram into it. Nobody cares to tell a good story with good acting anymore. This was quite the event back in 79. Everybody (including me) was expecting to see a Star Wars rip off, instead we got a horror movie set in space. It was excellent then, and it's still excellent now.

The quality of acting in this movie is shockingly overlooked. Veronica Cartwright was frankly brilliant in her depiction of someone just barely keeping it together, and of course, John Hurt was the best at depicting torture and pain. 😳 Everyone was completely convincing at what they were playing.

22:01 "Oh F*$%... right... off!" Hahah love that reaction!

An amazing movie. One of the things that I read about it, and it makes sense (from a certain twisted point of view), is that the writer and director intentionally created much of the visuals with as much disturbing sexual imagery and undertones in mind as possible (the face hugger symbolizing rape, the phallic design of the alien's head, the alien bursting out of the chest to represent birth) because they knew that our subconscious minds see sex as both a great but also potentially disturbing and gross.

I can't wait for your reaction to "aliens". Please watch the extended cut.

I saw this in the theater when it was released and I reacted the same way; no one had ever seen anything like this before this movie. The characters feel real so seeing them killed in such terrible ways is emotional

I agree with you completely on your response to what Ash said. I have always felt the line, "I can't lie to you about your chances, but....you have my sympathies" is one of the darkest and yet most realist lines ever written for film.

I still believe this is one of the best horror movies ever made.

every time i see a reaction to this movie i'm struck all over again at how good it still looks. not just the designs and effects, but the cinematography, editing, all of it. whatever else you think of them, scott's first four movies, even one that doesn't fully work like "legend," have to be among the most visually stunning.

‘Acoustical beacon that repeats at intervals of 12 seconds’ ‘Roll 92 degrees port yore’ Alien was a well written and intelligent movie and from way back in 1979.

The guy who played the alien, was from Nigeria, and this was his first and last movie he ever made. He was about 6feet 10 inches tall.

Ok, so, 2001, THX 1138, Soylent Green, Silent Running, Andromeda Strain, etc. Alien. How long does it take till you see the full size Alien? Perfect for a deep space movie. Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton....as you watch all 4 of the movies, watch how there is more and more slimy lubrication associated with each movie. It gets pretty ridiculous.

This movie made you cry because it takes the time to let you get to know these people, to care about them. When they die it hurts. That's what sets this film apart from almost all its imitators, and most other serial-killer horror films.

Fun fact: this movie came out in 1979, two years after Star Wars, as part of a wave of science fiction films. Some other films released in the same year were "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Mad Max", "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "Meteor", "Moonraker" (which sent James Bond into space) and Disney's "The Black Hole". If you're familiar with these movies, you might notice that (with the exception of "Mad Max", which was an Australian production) they could all be categorized as "space adventures", just like "Star Wars". So when the people went to see "Alien", that's what they were used to. Heroes, villains and damsels in distress. "The Black Hole" is a good example for this kind of product, it's basically Frankenstein/Dracula in space. The audience didn't expect this kind of movie. The perfect prey. They were utterly terrified.

14:22, audiences screamed at the top of their lungs when they saw this!

Movie fact: the director actually kept the cast in the dark about the chest burst scene except the one dying obviously. The reaction of the cast is completely genuine and they weren't expecting that at all.

Lol the "Jazz hands" scene is ICONIC! :D 😂🤣😂🤣

20:28 The POV jump scare where Dallas see the Alien up close is something like three frames of film.

When the movie first came out, the promotional material/trailers also told us nothing. It was an amazing experience in 1979, probably the greatest science fiction/horror movie I had ever seen and everyone I saw it with liked it also. Moreover, even the actors had some surprises in store and the reactions in one scene in particular are very genuine.

As a kid watching it for the first time, I left theater sadden that I never got a clear look at the full body alien. But to this day my favorite movie monster of all time. And it still hold up to this day.

Playing Alien Isolation after watching this was amazing. Love the aethetic of the Alien films

My mates and I left the theatre in '79 and went for a pint and just stood there in shock......what a movie.

The twist in the tail is that at the time, Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) was an unknown actress while everyone else was famous. The normal, expected, trope would be for the least well known actors to die first with the best known just surviving or dying heroically..

8:15 "In the name of science, I'll put my face in it" - Other Joe.

I think it’s the way the movie stays *so* stressful is what can push folks to tears

i was crying too! watching someone react to this movie really hammers home how goddamn stressful it is. it's just perfect

That tunnel scare is one of, if not the best/most infamous jump scare scenes in movies

The chestburster was #2 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

Her stress induced lobster hands is the most adorable thing I've seen all week.

The iconic egg chamber lights were borrowed from the legendary rock band, the Who. The band was testing out various lighting effects for their then-upcoming tour on the sound stage next door to the one where Alien was being shot. Jones cat used a German Shepherd dog and placed a darkened screen between the two. The cat couldn’t see the dog and the dog couldn’t see the cat. Then, to get the cat’s reaction for when the alien came down, they pulled the screen out of the way, revealing the cat and the dog to each other. This caused the cat to stop in its tracks and start hissing. Arguably the most pivotal scene in Alien is when the baby xenomorph tears itself through John Hurt’s chest. The scene was shot in just one take, with four cameras set up around Hurt. Ridley Scott's incredibly simplistic direction - is that none of the cast knew what was coming next either. It all started with Scott's desire for genuine reactions of terror. "[They] were going to be the most difficult thing. If an actor is just acting terrified, you can't get the genuine look of raw, animal fear," he mused. Once the creature was rigged up, they stuffed the chest cavity full of clams, oysters, seafood from a butcher's shop and a fishmonger. www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/john-hurt-dead-alien-chestburster-scene-ridley-scott-true-story-a7550656.html

Ripley is THE heroine. Love the character. I've always enjoyed Alien and Aliens, and they are such different movies. Really enjoyed your reaction video.

Film critic Maitland McDonagh made an interesting point that I still think about to this day when I watch Alien: "It solves the ultimate problem of the haunted house. 'Why don't these people just get out of the house?' Well, in Alien, there is nowhere to go."

Fun fact: The little run Ash does before going out onto the alien planet has technical significance, as he is a robot powered by artificial substances, he needed to do that to maintain his own functionality.

I’ve been bingeing these videos and I just have to say that Arianna is an absolute delight.

I love how the scariest thing the alien really does in the movie is to jump out of the dark with its arms out like a haunted house performer.

fun fact. for the chestburster scene the only cast member that new what was gonna happen was john hurt. Everyone's reaction of horror and shock was authentic :)

Lambert’s death screams and sounds always creep me out. The most horrific death rattle sounds ever made IMO!

The full sized creature suit was also kept secret from the actors so the look of horror and fear on their faces would be real. none of them were allowed to see it until their character's first encounter with it.

When R. Scott was discussing the possible end of the film with Fox's management, he suggested that Ripley die. Everyone stared at him, then explained: this woman (Sigourney) will become a star! You can't kill her !! And here's how Ellen Ripley actually survives!