Alien is a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott. The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial (object or being beyond the planet Earth) creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. I personally believe that Alien was an interesting movie. It had very little horror conventions, but the iconography was similar to the horror genre. Firstly, the isolated setting was prominent throughout the film. The fact that the people were on a spaceship connoted that they were in the middle of nowhere, possibly not aware of their surroundings. They obviously did not know the area well, which foreshadowed later events in the movie, in which being death or meeting the 'other'. The aliens in this case were the 'other' and the villains as the attempted to kill everyone on the spaceship. Fortunately for Ripley, she managed to survive the alien attack and be the final girl. This is a subversion as females are usually the victims, being the first ones to be killed off.
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