ALIEN (1979) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

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"How'd it get so big?" "He looked like he got jizzed on" "I saw his shiny head" "HIs head is so big" Dawn Marie out of context quotes...

You weren't expecting the alien to sing "Hello My Baby" right? 🤣

You loved Ripley? After _Aliens_ you'll love her even more.

Now you understand the diner scene with John Hurt in "Spaceballs," where he said, "Not again!"

Back in the 70s, there wasn't many films with 'gotcha' endings so we didn't come to the conclusion that it was 'too easy' at the end like you did. The modern-day viewer is so much more informed due to the internet, etc. Back then it was celebrity magazines and the beginning of VHS tapes and that was it.

They did explain the facehugger - it died after it fell off Kane's face (remember the line from Ash: "I think it's safe to assume it's not a zombie"). The skin was shed by the big alien (called a xenomorph) as it was growing.. "Aliens" from 1986 is the next one!

'Like a poop.' I never thought that shooting Hurt's character into space could be compared to taking a dump... but here we are.... you are funny, Dawn.

One thing to keep in mind these people aren't scientists or our highly trained astronauts.. they are basically truckers (lorry drivers) in space or maybe tug boat workers. So don't expect them to always make the best decision for the situation

The 2nd movie in this franchise is called "Aliens" (with the "s" at the end that you were wondering about at the start of this reaction 😀) ... it's also a VERY good movie. It's a little less horror and a little more action!

The Alien was designed by Swiss surrealist artist H R Giger. His art work was some of my favourites when I was at school. He is slightly sex obsessed though.

“Why is it just sitting there?” “Well……it’s pining for the fjords!” “What?!”

I saw this in its theatrical release. It is still one of the best science fiction horror movies ever made, along with John Carpenter's "The Thing."

The true horror of the alien comes from the fact that we do not get to see the whole creature on screen right up until very near the end of the film but that, by that point, we've seen enough bits of it to have built up a very comprehensive picture of what it looks like in our heads by that point.

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke.

"maybe it's Just a cricket thing" Marie you're in for a treat😱😱

The first alien film is brilliant. It’s essentially a horror film set in space.

Alien is one of the greatest films of all time; regardless of genre. I’ve written several pieces on the design of Alien. Had Dan O’Bannon & Ridley Scott not found HR Giger’s book ‘Necronomicon’, who knows what we could’ve ended up with. Scott was familiar with Giger’s work due to him being hired to work on Scott’s failed adaptation of Dune. Nothing will beat the time I got to see a special 70mm IMAX print of Alien…it looks absolutely stunning!! Fun Facts: The scene where Parker & Lambert die was originally much longer & Veronica Cartwright has even stated in interviews that what you see is a lot different. Basically, if you notice, as the tail goes between Lamberts legs, it isn’t actually Lambert; her costume featured cowboy boots…& the feet we see are actually Brett’s. Also, there’s a little know cut of the film that features Ripley finding Parker dead & Lambert naked from the waist down, suspended. Cartwright went on record & said that she spent part of the shoot suspended in a harness; but the scene was cut down to what we see in the theatrical cut. The Nostromo set was all connected; as it would’ve been had the craft been real. That combined with the fact it had a really low ceiling helps add to the hot, claustrophobic atmosphere & this helped drive the performance’s. Please ensure you watch the directors cut of Aliens & then onto the Assembly Cut of Alien 3. There’s not much to say about Aliens other than it’s just perfect. Alien 3 however is something of a flawed masterpiece. It was David Fincher’s directorial debut & due to studio meddling, rewrites etc, we were left with a semi coherent film that to this day Fincher refuses to talk about. The assembly cut, fixes a lot of problems & several cast members returned to record enhanced dialogue for the reintroduced scenes. Alien 3 still divides fans due to its bleak, post apocalyptic look. But it’s the perfect ending to an excellent trilogy of films. Fun Fact: The Nostromo model was restored a few years back & sold at auction to a certain NZ director for $500’000!!!

"Why's she speaking like that?" I dunno, maybe because of the 7"+ alien creature dismembering people onboard? I actually thought her performance throughout this movie was amazing.

In the chest bursting scene the screaming and horrified reaction were genuine from the cast. They purposely weren't told how much blood would come out and which way it would splatter. The local butcher provided blood and offal for the effect.

I saw this in a theater with friends when it came out. When the alien burst out of the man's chest, one of my friends said "Awwwww. Its cute!"

The tagline on the film poster was "In space, no one can hear you scream." One of the best ever, IMO. Pretty amazing effects considering it came out in the 70's. Older movies had to use real creativity to get around limitations of practical effects. Ridley Scott was a directors of commercials so he had a real visual style that comes thru in the movie. Amazing atmosphere and claustrophobia he created. Now you gotta react to the sequel, "Aliens". Directed by James Cameron (Terminator). Completely different movie but still amazing.

It's interesting you said something about the alien imitating the cat. One of the original endings had Ripley recording her message before going into hypersleep. The camera wasn't on her, though. It panned through the interior of the escape pod until just before she said, "This is Ripley, signing off." Only it was the alien saying it in Ripley's voice, implying it won. Wisely, Ridley Scott scrapped that idea for the ending we got.

The Alien had fallen asleep in the shuttle. That's why it wasn't really doing anything at first. It was slowly waking up. Until she sprayed it with the cooling fluids.

The "milk" running down the robot's face was meant to represent its blood. If you rewatch that scene you will notice that Ripley was bleeding. That was to signal to the audience that he was bleeding too but he wasn't human. The next film in this series is Aliens. I saw Alien at a Drive-In theater in 1979 as part of a triple feature. The first film they ran was Disney's The Cat from Outer Space, then they ran Alien, followed by a rip-off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that I barely remember.

The most Scottish thing I ever heard ... "She got rid of it" The perfect summing-up of one of the greatest movies ever made :)

Director Ridley Scott is also known for the 1973 Hovis bead commercial "guy pushing a bicycle." In 2006 it was voted favorite British commercial of all time. The boy rides his bicycle up a steep hill to deliver a basket of bread. The he gleefully sides the bike down the steep street, returning home and has some Hovis bread. Ridley Scott also known for the Apple Macintosh computer "1984" advertisement, and directing many other commercials.

This movie is a sci-fi/horror MASTERPIECE! This is "Alien". "Aliens" is the sequel. Much more of an action movie, but, still excellent.

You were correct. The Alien was a man in a rubber suit. Riddley Scott outdid himself, in bringing artist H.R. Geiger's painting to life. My girlfriend and I, ended up seeing that movie 12 times, on the big screen. It was terrifying.

Yes, that guy was in The Green Mile! That's Harry Dean Stanton. He was also in The Godfather, Part II.

The alien has three phases to its life cycle. The facehugger attaches itself to its host to implant the embryo. It then dies. When it's finished gestating the chestburster emerges. It then rapidly grows into an adult drone. Definitely watch the director's cut of the sequel, Aliens.

Some wasps here on Earth lay their eggs inside hosts which gestate and then tear out of the hosts body and fly away.

So fun fact, in the chest busting scene nobody knew what was going to happen so those screams are genuine & you can see them looking at the crew for help

The robot was played by Ian Holm, the actor that played the priest in Fifth Element, and also Bilbo Baggins in the rings/hobbit movies.

*Egg > face-hugger > embyo xenomorf inside the body > little xenomorf outside the body > big xenomorf = different stages of one and the same creature.* In this movie there is only ONE alien, but it has different forms. First you see the egg, from where the face-hugger comes that attaches itself to the face. This face-hugger puts a young xenomorf into the (here human) host. It grows very fast and when it is big enoug it bursts through the ribs and leaves the human body. Outside it grows even faster, sheds it's skin (maybe even more than once), and quickly becomes the big xenomorf, first light skinned, later dark skinned.

The alien, there's only one at a time, goes through several life stages. Its life cycle is informed by different kinds of parasitic insects. When the egg opens the face-hugger comes out looking for a living host. It then injects a larva into the host, which bursts out after feeding on the host from the inside. This echoes several kinds of parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in the bodies of other insects and after hatching the larva feeds on the live host from the inside until it metamorphoses into an adult wasp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid_wasp The jaws within jaws is designed after the pharyngeal jaws of the moray eel. Many fish species have pharyngeal jaws, a second set of jaws deep in the throat, which help in chewing their prey. The moray eels are the only species that have extensible pharyngeal jaws which come forward into the mouth and help in catching the prey and pulling it back into the throat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal_jaw The only thing which is never explained is how the alien grows so large so quickly after feeding on only some bits of John Hurt. Maybe there are other things on the ship it can feed on, such as space rats or leftover Chinese food, until it grows large enough to hunt people. Perhaps that is explained in the novel.

Aliens is worth checking out. Especially the Director's cut/Special Edition.

My dad got me a foot tall action figure of the alien, and I had to put it in a drawer because it scared me so much. Still boggles my mind tat they made action figures for an R rated movie.

The jumpscare _after_ having already spotted the alien was priceless!

Alien is my favorite movie. Aside from a few moments (such as the awkward transition from Ash’s prosthetic head to the actor) it holds up amazingly well. Please watch Aliens now. There are two versions of the movie. You can’t go wrong with either one but I recommend the special edition. As for your question, I do believe in aliens. The universe is so massive I can’t believe there isn’t other life out there somewhere. But I don’t think we’ve been visited.

There was an alternate ending to this classic that only the preview/test audiences saw. In that version the Alien actually kills the entire Nostromo crew. The movie ends with a rescue ship approaching the Nostromo, & the alien mimicking the voice of one of the, now dead, crew to draw it in. The audiences didn't like that version, so we got the ending we all know. Zack Snyders Justice League gives me hope of that alternate cut being in an archive somewhere, just waiting to be re seen.

"Drama Queen" is the right name (in a good way) for Veronica Cartwright. She started being one in weird movies as early as THE BIRDS, where she played the little girl.

I saw this in the movie theater in 1979 when I was 11

There was the egg... the face sucker came out and attached itself to the guy.. the face sucker laid an egg in the guys stomach then died. The alien burst out of his stomach, and grew huge. The only unanswered alien is what laid the eggs... Great reaction. Thank you. 😊

The Face Hugger died after laying the Alien embryo inside Kane. Then the baby alien grew really rapidly.

Now I can’t wait to see your reaction to Aliens.

I might remind you that there were some aliens in Life of Brian. It also makes me wonder that somewhere in the universe, if Aliens were making films about Aliens... Are we a movie monster. Also the franchise nobody thought they needed. "Alien Vs The Knights Who Say Ni". I'd pay to see that.

The life of a Xenomorph are: 1. Egg 2. Facehugger (They die after laying embryo in host) 3. Chestbuster (Gestates and takes on D.N.A. from host and determines the characteristics of Drones or Warrior) 4. Drone Xeno or Warrior Xeno 5. Praetorian (Guards the Queen and if the Queen dies a Praetorian will take her place) 6. Queen 7. Queen-Mother 8. Empress

Dawn, you have fantastic comedic sense. I cracked up when you said it'd be sitting in the other seat beside her. 🤣 Ripley: 😨😩😮‍💨😒 The Alien: 👋😏

If I remember correctly, it was John Hurt in Spaceballs also (it's been a while since I saw it). And when he starts choking, he quotes "Oh no, not again". ? 🙂

1. Ripley says to Parker, "You'll get what's coming to you." is prophetic. 2. There's a COC in the civilian world too. Cooperation wanted access to the Alien. That becomes more clear in the second one. 3. Dallas/Tom Skerritt also played in "Top Gun" as Viper and "Up in Smoke" as Strawberry to name a couple. 4. Harry Dean Stanton(RIP) He had a very deep portfolio.😎 5. The hanging bodies at the end was not in the original release 6. That was a hell of a blast😲 Better than Star Wars. 7. Now that you're in this universe you MUST do Aliens next. (More action packed)

LOL the face hugger, the cricket thing and the alien are all best buddies

This is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. The suspense that is growing bigger and bigger as the movie goes on. Also; The music by Jerry Goldsmith is just fantastic!

"Best movie ever," you say? Just wait until the sequel! 😁

Fun fact: John Hurt, the man with the "chest burster", reprised his role in Spaceballs. That's why he says "Oh no. Not again."

The actor you recognised from The Green Mile is Harry Dean Stanton. He's a fantastic actor, but has a reputation of being almost impossible to work with. Many stories of huge conflicts on set when he's around, but others say he's a great guy.

Us old timers had to wait seven years for the sequel. Give thanks that you do not wait that long.

The sequel "Aliens" is a good action film worth watching.

“what’s with all the buttons” Have you ever seen the inside of an airplane cockpit? There’s always a lot of buttons that do different things. It’s not like a car. You also asked how she knew what all the buttons did. It’s her job. She was part of the crew and knew how to operate all of the machinery on the ship.

" Make sure to get your face right up in there Morty, those face huggers are worth a fortune"

Actor John Hurt played Kane in both _Alien_ and _Spaceballs_ . That's why he said "Not again!" in the latter. 😂

This is a great movie!! love your reaction! Great catch seeing it towards the end most people including me do not catch that. The Face hugger did die after it implanted the alien in the crew member, the skin was shed by the small chestbursting alien as it was growing into the bigger one. Now you must Watch Aliens (the sequel) which is also great!

You wait till to see Aliens Dawn, fantastic sequel and end to the story.

Something we meet in the sequel laid the Eggs. The Face-hugger stage hatches from the Egg. Lays something that gestates in a host. The Chest-burster bursts out of the host's body. Sheds its skin as it grows in size. Eating the ships food supply. In the shuttle, the adult Xenomorph is getting ready to hibernate. In the sequel, we learn they're like a colony of insects. The Alien is a Worker. The ones in the sequel are presumably Warriors. And mom, that lays eggs.

The Nostromo is essentially the space-going equivalent of a tugboat towing a barge. It's basically designed to travel from port to port, with nice landing fields and guidance markers and such...and in order to land it on the planet they're (to completely change the metaphor) having to take it "off-roading," which it is *so* not designed for. So it landed badly, banging the fenders and maybe bottoming out. The Alien (and the ship it was found on) was designed by H. R. Giger, also known for his "dead baby landscapes." Now you can watch "Aliens" (the second one). I'd ignore all other sequels after that, though.

Thank you for being one of the ONLY reactors who figured out WHY Ripley had to go back and try to deactivate the self-destruct! Everyone else is clueless.

Back in the 70’s, got word about upcoming movies reading about them in certain magazines. They were talking about alien a full year before it’s release. How it was a horror movie in space. No escaping from the haunted mansion (the spaceship). How space travel had advanced so far that it was like having “truckers” as astronauts. And how they wrote most of the characters initially as male but decided to make some women, but not really change the dialogue. Also about HR Giger (check out his art! It’s wild!) designing the life cycle of the alien and it’s various stages.

Easiest target, lol, have you ever tried to catch a cat that doesn't want to be caught? Great reaction, can't wait to watch Aliens with you. Thank you

I was 15 when this flick was in theaters. I stole the movie poster out of the marquee, framed it, and it still hangs on the wall to this day.

21:40 "How is the cat still alive? You'd think the alien would go for that first, it's the easiest target." The alien has standards.

The Face-Hugger laid an embryo inside Kane's (John Hurt) chest. That became the "cricket" and that grew into the full-size Xenomorph (alien creature). 21:18 "Looks like he's been jizzed on. A lot." What other movies do you watch Dawn? 🤔🤣

Imagine seeing this in a proper movie theatre, with a massive screen and big sound system! Great film.

It absolutely is a 70s movie, it just doesn’t look it because it’s such a masterpiece, hell it still looks great today, imagine how amazing this looked in 1979!

Actually, the scene about jettisoning Kane's body is the space equivalent of a burial at sea.

Excited to watch this tonight when all the Thanksgiving activities are over. Looking forward to the Aliens reaction as well.

Yup. The boys always like Alien - good, strong female lead. 😍😁. Life cycle = egg - face hugger - puts embryo in victim - pops out and grows to full size alien. Alien Queen lays eggs.... In the book, Ripley found some of the crew, mutilated but still alive - cocooned (the captain was her fella) waiting to be implanted with embryos. She used a flame thrower on them before setting the self destruct. This is Part 1 of a 3 part story (plus some more cash ins!)

One of the greatest movies ever made. Genre defining. And my favourite movie of all time.

*gasp* "Why's it so big?" Heard this one a few times in my life

In the director's cut Parker and Ripley did see Brett being pulled into the airduct. This is why Parker says it was huge. Never understood why this part was ever cut. It's only a few seconds and explains how he knew how big it was.

Always loved the part where they are calling out into empty space waiting for a reply but they are actually very far away from human civilization and they don't receive any reply back, only silence.

In the book, they are hunting the alien chestburster for a week, it has been eating the rats that Jones the ships cat is there to deal with, then it gets bigger and breaks into the ships stores and is eating those. That is the full story of how it gets so big.

Take into account when you see the reactions of this crew about the alien, that they are supposedly the first ones encountering this alien, so everything about this creature takes them absolutely by surprise (except for one crewmember, by now you know which one).

It goes like this: The Egg releases the face-hugger.. The face-hugger plants an embryo in the victim's body, and that bursts out of their chest (Chest-burster/Cricket thing). After a while, the chest-burster sheds it's skin and grows into the adult alien. Watch Aliens (Alien 2) to explain more.

Thanks for your reaction to Alien, Dawn Marie. Another alien movie I would recommend is A Quiet Place (If They Hear You They Hunt You), and its' sequel A Quiet Place 2. Its' different and has lots of tension.

Two things - the face hugger died after it layed its egg in John Hurt. The Alien then popped out and the 'Perfect organism' quickly grew to adapt and survive.

Dawn Marie's subscribers deserve the truth: The cast DID ACTUALLY KNOW about the chestburster scene because they had all read the script and had done table reads and rehearsals. What Ridley Scott specifically kept secret was what the chestburster was going to look like and exactly how the scene was going to be shot technically. But Tom Skerrit (Dallas) was on set early, snuck in, took a peek and told Yaphett Koto (Parker) and at least one more of the cast. When they all walked onto set for the first time they saw the cameras and other equipment covered in sheet plastic as well as the crew wearing raincoats/plastic so they knew it was going to be messy. On the first take, the chestburster puppet failed to rip through Kane's (John Hurt) Tshirt so they all had to go out and wait for a reset. On the second take everything worked and blood sprayed everywhere so the reactions are genuine. Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) did indeed get sprayed directly in her face causing her to fall over backwards but she did not pass out. What we see in the final (screen) version of this iconic scene is a COMBINATION of the first and second takes as well as second unit closeups that were shot afterwards. It seems that practically every RU-vid video on Alien has comments that the actors had "no idea" about the entire chestbuster scene and it was a complete/total surprise, which is a nonsense way of saying what really happened. Everything I wrote here is verifiable on the documentaries/interviews/publications. Thank you Dawn for yet another great reaction vid!

It’s the first time I see a first-time reaction to that ventilator jumpscare where the viewer didn’t get scared 😂😂😂

7:57 fun fact the Alien moving in the egg is Ridley Scott's hand in a rubber glove 9:10 you need kill it first 9:38 you were saying

The Alien has two adult forms the face hugger and the long-headed alien. The face-hugger hatches from an egg, attaches itself to another creature, places its singular offspring into the host, and dies shortly before gestation is complete. The host wakes up and goes wandering off before the chestburster "hatches" from the host and goes on a killing/eating spree before laying its own clutch of eggs and the cycle begins again. And, yes, not only was Harry Dean Stanton in The Green Mile as the janitor/practice executee, but Stephen king named two of the guards after him: Harry Terwillinger and Dean Stanton. Also, the robot, Ash, was played by Bilbo Baggins himself, Ian Holm.

The name of the ship is Nostromo, which is an anagram for “Mort Soon.” Mort means dead in French or Italian, so the name becomes Dead Soon.

I believe the reason it had the shape of a man is because when the organism planted its egg inside the human, it took some what characteristics of the human it came out of, is really a brilliant creation of this type of organism, from the acid for blood and the mouth inside the mouth, also moray eels have a mouth inside the mouth, they use to pull fish inside after biting them, they been known to chop off fingers of divers hand feeding them, one of the great classics in my opinion.

"It's a really windy planet" ... yes nearly as windy as Scotland!

The Facehugger (not sucker, it certainly wasn’t sucking), the horrific thing to think about is, when Dallas asks “what’s it got down his throat?”, and then a baby alien “births” from Kane’s chest, that’s when you realise what “it” was that was down his throat… and that it wasn’t there consensually. As I said, it was sucking, it was something that rhymes. 17:32 jazz hands 😂 You should definitely watch Aliens, but watch the special edition, it has scenes that were cut from theatrical release, but they give more depth to the story.

Incase you didn't catch it,. The actor where the alian shoots out of his stomach was the late great John Hurt from the Harry potter franchise. He was the wand seller.

22:02 "You don't go 'puss, puss, puss', you go 'kiss, kiss, kiss' and rub your fingers like this. They ALWAYS come!" ~That's what she said! hehehe 😂

About Ripley trying to get Jonesy to come to Ripley: DM: You don't go "psst, psst, psst", you go like this [using "come hither"-type movements w/her fingers] ... and they always come" Steve: So, does that also work on you ??? I'm sorry, that was dirty ... but I just couldn't help myself.

Whenever I'm under stress I tend to have bad dreams. They usually manifest as the facehugger from Alien. I can understand about it being your new worst nightmare.

This one’s Alien, the sequel is AlienS plural. Both are amazing films but actually very different tone despite the one being a perfectly sensible sequel to the other. This one’s more suspense/horror while the sequels more of an action/thriller type of thing

Happy Thanksgiving! Great reaction, your commentary is funny. I always find it interesting how everyone reacts the same way to Ash. It's interesting because he's an android, basically a tool. The people who programmed him and Mother, the ship computer, are the ones responsible. When someone shoots and kills another, you don't put the tool, tool being the weapon, on trial. You put the shooter on trial.

Ridley Scott films always have water or steam as "danger". You'll see it again when you watch Blade Runner. In the Blade Runner sequel, one character moves so far into the desert away from water to be "safe". He uses the Japanese imagery of snow as "permanent change, aka death and rebirth".