Your birth year
2006
Alien
1979
Alien is 27 years older than you
It's from 1979, before you were born.
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Genre
- Sci-fi horror
- Star
- Sigourney Weaver
- Released
- 1979
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About
As of 2026, it's 47 years old.
Alien took a simple, brilliant premise — a monster loose on a spaceship — and made it unbearably tense by treating space as a grimy, working-class place where no one can hear you scream. Then it served up the most infamous dinner scene in film history and changed sci-fi horror forever.
Ripley became one of cinema's great heroes, the creature design is still nightmare fuel, and 'in space, no one can hear you scream' sold the dread perfectly.
Claustrophobic, terrifying, and gorgeously grim, Alien is the film that proved the scariest spaceship is the one you're trapped on with something hungry.
