Must have been a pretty badass upbringing when dad is prepping you for fighting acid bleeding aliens. You just know he got to do awesome things like throwing axes and building booby traps.
Dad sounds like a Republican in 2023. So stupid yet so self assured. Scaring their Children with complete nonsense, Playing Right field but there's no Ball Game, etc.
That _is_ wonderful, and I pray she is full of life, still! I'd love to hear what she thinks in retrospect about the idea of Americans becoming "more and more immune to excessive behavior."
It's so true. And I feel the same way about Aliens as well. Both films are masterclasses in film making, of two different yet adjacent genres. I love them both so much.
There isn’t too much to the story, but the set designs, art design, and special effects are groundbreaking, just like Star Wars that only came out two years prior. Unlike Star Wars, Alien had really good acting. It still looks modern somehow. The only clue to the film’s age is the cast.
The real life in Alien is the company (Weiland Yutani) using the crew of the Nostromo to obtain a dangerous organism for weapons on earth and beyond. History and present day shows that corporations have raped entire countries for their resources using taxpayers lives to kill the populations for resources. I always felt bad for the crew of the ship, and in real life have felt bad for those who fought and died in WARS for bank cartels and multi-national companies.
That's how indoctrination works. Look at the insane news stories that have come out this year about aliens! Did you hear about the situation that allegedly just took place in Peru? The villagers there are convinced they were attacked by aliens, and I'm pretty sure they don't even have a movie theater in their village! 😄 Hollywood has always been there to push the UFO-alien propaganda, and it started well before 1979. Crazy times we're living in. Things were actually pretty quaint in 1979.
It is straight-out horror. All sense of hope in the audience is intentionally snuffed. Beautifully shot though. But I choose the more rollicking adventure type of space fare like Star Wars or Star Trek any day. Close Encounters of a Third Kind is still one of my all time sci-fi favorites.
its basically a warning about booking cheap holidays where the food prep isnt up to scratch, you could get sick n ruin the holiday for everyone, valuable lesson. 😂
I was 8 when Alien came out. My sister was 16 and saw it at the cinema . When she got home she told me the whole movie in every little detail and I remember feeling both scared and mind-blown just from listening to her. When I finally got to actually see it a couple of years later it felt like a rewatch. Stone cold classic!
It's great that your sister was such an excellent story teller. I had someone describe a film to me I'd never seen in that level of excellent detail. And it was exactly as you said... When I finally saw it, it felt like a rewatch. Cheers!
Videotape picture quality was lower than cinematic quality even when the tape was new, some of the color cinemas by the end 1960s had already excellent quality. And most probably the tape was lying somewhere in archives and deteriorating before it was digitized.
@@pepethepatriot7524I raise my children the same way : they watch 80’s cartoons and mangas and already saw Terminator, Last action Hero, jaws and a bunch of action and science fiction movies at the age of 6-10 😅 next one will be John Carpenter’s remake of “The Thing”
My mom and her friend who also had a son my age went to see it and he was eating Neco wafers. When the alien popped out of that guy's chest he screamed and threw his hands up and the wafers went everywhere and landed on other people who also jumped up and started screaming!!! It was hilarious!!!!😂😂😂😂
My Dad took me to see Alien when I was 13 years old. He said he'd have to go see it for himself first to decide if it would be appropriate for me. After seeing it he said, "Well, I think it's okay for you" and he took me to the theater. At a certain point during the movie I remember looking up at my Dad and thinking, "What in the world made you think this movie would be okay for me??" But of course I loved it, I still do. It's easily one of my all-time favorites. He took me to see a handful of R-Rated movies like that just because he thought I'd really enjoy them. He also took me to Amadeus and Excalibur.
@@fazum He's been gone a few years now but I realize that he not only loved me, he respected and thought highly of me and he enjoyed my company. And I thought then and still think the same of him. My Dad was a great man.
there are more stars in the universe then grains of sand on earth. The man is speaking sense! No one knows whats lies hidden and waiting out in the vast abyss of space...
I was 11 when Alien came out. My dad went and saw the movie by himself at the time. He came home and told me about it. I was so intrigued that a few days later, he took me to see it in a really good and loud theatre. I was blown away. It scared the living crap out of me and scarred me mentally for the rest of my life. I've had nightmares about being chased by the alien many times. But I gotta say, I LOVE this movie. That night, there was a lady in the audience that I'll never forget. When Ripley went back for the cat, she yelled out, "Forget the damn cat!" and later in the shuttle, when the Alien arm came out, that same lady screamed so loud, in space they COULD hear her scream. One of my all-time favorite memories!
I lived a very small town when alien came out and the theater was through woods. Yeah, as a 9 year old walking home through the woods after that is ‘memorable.’
I watched Alien in the theatre I was 13. In my town, all you needed was an adult to be with you at the ticket boot and give permission for you to go in. Even then I knew I had watched the holy grail of sci-fi horror.
@@nicomeier8098well damn when did that change? I rem 21 years ago i went with my friends to an R rated movie. Usually, they just let you in but that time the guy required an adult to accompany. Lucky for everyone, i had just turned 18 so we got to see it.
“As psychologists keep telling us, we Americans are becoming more and more immune to excessive behavior.” Kudos to the dad who thought he ought to prepare his kid for aliens, but in fact it was the psychologist that predicted the future.
Sounds like you want to talk about all the mass shootings. I doubt it, but I'll explain, even though you will likely just blank out and move on. The military was concerned that the American people were hesitant to slaughter other human beings in the world wars. The military solved that problem with the help of Hollywood and psychologists. Mission accomplished. The psychologists were snitching, not being prophetic. Those school / market / mall / church shooters don't hesitate a bit, and really run with those military morals. But being fully honest, the truth is that the idea of running into a school / market / mall / church and killing all of the innocent men, woman, and kids came from the military. What some proof? Military marching song(cadence). Sing a few. "I Went to the Market" I went to the market Where all the families shop I pulled out my Ka-Bar And started to chop To the left right left right left right kill Left right left right you know I will I went to the church Where all the families pray I pulled out my machine gun And started to spray To the left right left right left right kill Left right left right you know I will. "I Went to the Mall" I went to the mall Where all the ladies shop I pulled out my Ka-Bar And started to chop To the left right left right left right kill Left right left right you know I will I went to the mosque Where the motherfuckers pray I kicked in the door And threw in a grenade I went to the park Where the kiddies like to play I pulled out my SAW And started to spray To the left right left right left ight kill Left right left right you know I will "Napalm Sticks to Kids" We shoot the sick, the young, the lame We do our best to kill and maim Because the kills all count the same Napalm sticks to kids Flyin' low across the trees Pilots doing what they please Droppin’ frags on refugees Napalm sticks to kids It made us feel so good inside When the strong men wept and the women cried But what we really like is the children fried Napalm sticks to kids See that family over there? Watch me get 'em with a pair Blood and guts just everywhere Napalm sticks to kids CIA with guns for hire Montagnards around the fire Napalm makes that fire higher Napalm sticks to kids Children suckin' on a mother’s tit Gooks down in a 50 pit DOW Chemical doesn't give a shit Napalm sticks to kids Attack some kids when you go downtown By throwing some candy on the ground Then grease 'em when they gather 'round Napalm sticks to kids A squad of 'Cong in the grass But all the fighting's long since past Crispy critters in a mass Napalm sticks to kids Loaches out to have a blast Drop some peon, kids en masse Send the remains to the Chief of Staff Napalm sticks to kids Oxcars rollin' down the road Peasants with a heavy load They're all V.C. when the bombs explode Napalm sticks to kids Shootin’ women’s lots of fun Try killin' one that’s pregnant, son You'll get two for the price of one Napalm sticks to kids Flyin' low and feelin' mean See that family by the stream? Drop some napalm, hear ’em scream Napalm sticks to kids. See that gook down on his knees? Launch some flechettes in the breeze Find his arms nailed to the trees Napalm sticks to kids N.V.A. are all hardcore Flechettes nail 'em to the jungle floor Throw them psyops out the door Napalm sticks to kids Eighteen kids in a no-fire zone Books under arms and goin' home Last in line goes home alone Napalm sticks to kids Chuck's in a sampan sittin' in the stern But he don't think his boat will burn Them fuckin' gooks will never learn Napalm sticks to kids See the little kids jump and shout Drop some napalm without a doubt Watch 'em try and put it out Napalm sticks to kids I've been around, some things I've seen But the people who are mighty mean The gooks you kill, they make you clean Napalm sticks to kids. I've only seen it happen twice But both times it was mighty nice Shootin' peasants plantin' rice Napalm sticks to kids Napalm, son, is lots of fun When dropped from a bomb or shot from a gun It gets the gooks when they're on the run Napalm sticks to kids Some people say it's not so neat To watch gooks burnin' in the street But burnin' flesh smells mighty neat Napalm sticks to kids Gooks in the open, makin' hay But I can hear them gunships say "There'll be no Chieu Hois today" Napalm sticks to kids Shoot some civilians where they sit Take some pictures as you split All your life you'll remember it Napalm sticks to kids They'se in good shape for the shape they'se in But they'se no way that they can win With napalm rollin' down their skin Napalm sticks to kids Later made into a song, laughter included. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t9eybY9qFfY.html
This was the real golden age of cinema, no trailers which reveal just the best parts, no partial or even full leaks of the movie before release, no internet to spread the news around the globe. Only some tiny guess what you are about to see.
The original trailer that didn't show any scenes with the creepy siren-like music and the egg cracking scared the SH!T out of me as a kid. I didn't see it till years after, and _after_ buying the "Book of ALIEN" (the making of) and the Graphic Novel. I now put this as my Top 5 Sci-Fi Films and Top 10 movies of all time. I now own 2 newer making-of books and a few magazines that came out over the years (including the more recent "Making of ALIENS"). All the work that went into this film, conceptual art, special fx, cinematography were all fascinating to a teen that was awaken by Star Wars (1977) and decided to pursue being a concept designer. - This wasn't just a Sci-Fi/Horror Film, it was a piece of Art.
@@mvunit3 well said ! i love all the BTS stuff of alien(s) movies. I like to dable in VFX and film making my self but seeing the makings of the practical stuff that was the way back then and how they approached ideas is very fascinating and motivating
Another twat pining over a time that never existed. Movies had leaks, trailers just like today and always spoiled everything (a practice that was industry standard since before the talkies) and not only trailers, many movies spoiled everything in the intro on purpose. Watch old movies and you'll see, the most egregious example that comes to mind is Zorro (1957), Disney used to spoil absolutely EVERYTHING before every short, movie and TV episode. As the saying goes, La distancia no hace moco.
And I watched one video that said that *Predator* and *Alien* were undersold or 'wrongly' marketed as *Predator* subverted expectations as people expected it to be another testosterone filled movie the Schwarzzenegger had to survive and fight for his life and people were hooked like a suspenseful bedtime story with a cliffhanger... *Alien* was supposed to be a sci fi then turned horror and Ripley being a mother figure protecting Newt and willing to go into the depths of hell to save or protect her was captivating like nothing they had seen before that...
Check this out - I saw Alien opening night. It was a packed theater and the only seats left available to me and my friend were in the very back row, dead center. When the chestburster scene happened - I'm not kidding you - the ENTIRE crowd jump-scared up an inch in their seats, in shock and in absolute perfect unison. It was the craziest movie-going experience I ever witnessed.
@@flutebasket4294I almost wholeheartedly agree with you but to be fair, there were plenty of amazing films that were way ahead of their time and received negative criticism at the time they were received. 1 particular example of this would be John Carpenter's "The Thing". Which many would hail as a cinematic achievement of horror, yet when it was released it nearly ruined John Carpenter's career as it flopped so hard. Audiences at the time were put off by the gore and preferred E.T., another alien genre film released at the same time.
Must have been amazing, people had yet to see anything quite like it and so well done. Nothing like it before and nothing to match or surpass it since!
The most frightening thing I ever saw in a movie was the final scene in the movie Carrie, when the hand reaches out of the ground to grab Carrie’s arm. Completely unexpected, I think I nearly fainted.
My parents took me to see this opening day. The chest burster scene prepared me for my life in medicine. I grew up to become an obstetrician. Thanks dad!
@@jacobgrafstrom1917 if you think people act this nicely to each other nowadays then you better revisit your special ed classes,…it’s not anywhere close, nor would anyone care to be bothered for an interview or even look up from staring at their phone
I remember my parents carried me in kicking and screaming to see Alien. I remember crying a lot when the scary parts came on, and I'll never forget what my parents told me, "Stop acting like a child! You're 27 for crying out loud!"
@steriopticon2687 /// 🤔...well if U replace ALIEN with THE EXORCIST 👁 could believe it!!! HELL!!!(???pun intended) I'm still 2 🐔 2 read the BOOK ✔️ it out 1x from library along xago 📚 read maybe the 1st chapter was 2 afraid 😨 2 go further returned it & never ✔️ it out again & i sure as HELL!!!(lol) don't want 2 own a copy and have it laying around my home 4 an over extended length of x, don't want a certain type of SCOTTISH PLAY oops...BOARDGAME(with letters/#s/yes-no) either laying around giving off any sinister visual vibes 😮
I saw THIS when it first opened AND it was not a hit yet! We live in the burbs and we had to drive like a half hour away to see it ! Like STAR WARS ; it had not opened everywhere - at first. Then it was like WILDFIRE . But to be honest with you : NOTHING but NOTHING blew me away as when I had first seen "Dawn of the Dead" that Spring !! OMG - you have no idea - one lady ran out of the theatre and vomited. LOL.
@@DjLou82 I was 10 when I saw Aliens in 1988. Still soviet union and at that time, we had what we called 'video saloons' - small room with a tv, a vhs player, and chairs, the first branches of private business. Being a 10yo boy, I didn't realize that these kinds of movies even existed; it was the first non-soviet, or 'allowed' non-soviet movie for me. And... it was a SHOCK! Really... I couldn't sleep for a couple of days.
I saw it Melbourne Australia back then. After getting home after the movie, I was entering my home through a leafy side lane, when a possum up in the tree started hissing at me. I almost passed out in shock. it was an amazing movie
@@Blink-jt1nb She did ruin the ending for 6th Sense for me by saying everyone would LOVE the twist ending. 10 minutes into I turned to my date who had already seen it and said, “He’s dead isn’t he?”
What I like about Alien is how Ripley seems like an unimportant character in the beginning of the movie and as the movie progresses she slowly comes into taking the lead role. Also the detail... In the beginning when Mother wakes up the crew you see papers and clothing going from no movement to moving in a gentle breeze. This is the ship pumping oxygen for the crew before waking them up.
Especially the last one has been broken so often and with so disastrous consequences in some cases recently by people who rather believe in fever dreams and gobblygook than facts and science...
@@joergmaass Idk, I think that particular problem was more because people were selfish and they wanted to travel and/or they craved human interaction. Or they simply found it inconvenient. A lot of people understood the reasons for quarantine but thought, "I'm special, these rules don't apply to me."
Everyone’s talking about the second family, but the first one is hilarious. Kid’s so proud he got through something that probably freaked his dad out lol. Sheesh this movie creeped me out as an adult, what a trooper
When you think of the perfect movie...this could be it. No CGI whatsoever. Thats why it still stands up today. Along with the story, acting performances, atmosphere and music.
... and lack of a Mary Sue, woke politics, even though it had a strong woman lead character (progressive for it's time? I don't know.. I just through she kicked ass).. I mean, I wouldn't want to trade with her.. That shit gave me nightmares all throughout my early teens 🤣
Yes, it was insanely progressive for its time. No woman protagonist (hero) ever kicked ass in any movie -- especially alone without the help of men. Women were depicted as victims and damsels in distress. It was pretty effen woke. @@hvanmegen
@@therealJamieJoythat's not woke just because its a female protagonist. U don't know what woke means. Woke is forced meaningless time consuming bs liberal politics overtaking the plot and scriptwriting. And usually accompanied with hack garbage actors that nobody cares about, usually diverse.. And WITH a horrid hack script. A good movie is not woke. Alien is not woke. EVERYTHING worked and was cohesive to make that masterpiece. Good acting, great actors, great script.
My dad took me to see this movie, I was 9 years old. He took me to see Jaws as well, and Star Wars around the same time. All I can say is NO he should NOT have brought me to see this movie even though it is one of the best movies ever made. A the time it scared the HELL out of me, I don't think I slept for a year! "Thanks" dad... ;)
The woman interviewing people here is Bobbie Wygant. She has a channel on RU-vid with her old interviews of celebrities. She has one of her interviewing Ridley Scott about Alien and interrogating him pretty hard about the violence in the movie.
My dad took me to see it when I was 11, but it was like a secret mission: "Don't tell your mom!" I sat frozen for the entire thing, as I'm sure many other kids did! Amazing experience in the the theater.
I saw it in theatres at age 11. It scared the crap out of me. After the chest burst I was afraid to cough. I couldn't sleep that night... and I wouldn't change a thing. It is one of my all time favorite movies. Children need to be exposed to fear in a safe environment. It is 1 ingredient in making well adjusted people.
I saw The Thing in 1982, a great and seriously underrated Sci-fi horror. Then I saw Alien in 1983, made 3 years before The Thing… It was untouchable, and still remains so to this day. All the actors were excellent, it was like they were born to play their role. But it’s major credit belongs to HR Gigers artwork genius, Carlo Rambaldi organic SFX brilliance, Ridley Scott’s visionary directing talent, and Derek Vanlints beautiful cinematography all merged perfectly and brought an unprecedented angle to the Sci-fi genre. Scott’s subtle and close up attention to detail in sound and image is a standout. The way he does that and yet at the same time starves the audience desperate for visual information on the emerging darkness within. Then slowly drip feeds the anxiety with further darkness and unknowns. The periodic glimpses of a menacing alien life-form nestling, growing amongst and mastering the dark industrial infrastructure of the space craft is a brilliant ‘less is more’ demonstration. It’s an ironic and clever juxtaposition in direction that gradually puts you in the shoes of each increasingly vulnerable and helpless crew member. The impact frays your nerve little by little until the final nerve shattering showdown as the creature matures into a spectacular and near invincible apex predator. Alien was quite simply a face hugging game changer in movie history.
I worked there too but years later I remember the quality and detail of how that old art deco building was built all the brass everywhere and those doors that probably weigh at least 800 lbs each, its kinda sad compared to modern building's now everything's made to look like quality its all just laminated particleboard, cheap metal dipped in chrome and pre fab doors
I first watched Alien in 1982 when I was 7 years old. I was terrified but utterly blown away. I loved all the old Hammer and Amicus horror type films they'd show on telly in the UK, but Alien marked the beginning of truly modern horror for me.
I always wanted to watch ‘Hammer House of Horror’ when it was first screened on ITV, but was turfed off to bed. I had to ask all the spoiled kids what happened, Monday morning.
corny though they were, the hammer horror dracula films have some of the most iconic moments. that shot of van helsing crossing the candlesticks to make a giant crucifix and backing dracula into the sunlight, and the following turn to ash sequence is just amazing.
@@gourdguru. I was born in 1968..my dad let me and my brothers stay up in the late 70s and early 80s to watch the BBC horror movie double bill.......I know exactly what you mean....watching Peter cushings van helsing defeat Christopher Lees dracula..was mind blowing...Happy (but scary 😂) memories ...before video and dvd came out
Funny that the editor of Alien had just come up fresh from editing *_Watership Down_* a year or so before. That bloody bunny movie is arguably the 'Bambi' for all movie-going generations that came afterward...
I remember seeing it in the theatre myself. One of the scariest movies made. Everyone screamed. 😂 A real classic and it’ll still be watched a 100 years from now.
I saw it mid week and the theater was 20% full at most. After a few scenes a lot of the singles viewers there literally got up and moved closer to talk and break the tension. Great movie.
I sneaked to watch this when I was a kid. And the scene with captain chasing alien in the vents scared the crap out of me. But since then I've grown to love horror movies and yet the Alien forever took a special place in my heart. I wish I could be scared like that ever again, but alas... it was too good and nothing had beaten it to this day :)
An absolutely amazing find! Clips like this are priceless for a window into people's reactions at the time. Also that is Bobbie Wygant! She has some amazng interviews with Sigourney Weaver and others.
I remember the hilarious time in 1986 when the sequel, _Aliens,_ was released at the cinema. Somebody smuggled in the squirt bottles filled with gel. When the alien was hissing and drooling, somebody squeezed the bottle into the audience. It was so funny seeing people beserked and running out of the auditorium with several more people running for their lives...
I was at work one day when a co-worker came back to the office after seeing it. The look on his face actually stunned me. All he could say was "You have to see that movie." He was right.
I am deeply, deeply envious of all who watched ‘Alien’ in the 70’s on the big screen when first released and had absolutely no idea of what was to come!!!❤
@@zacetto Hard to describe the impact. I'm old, I was an adult when it came out and my friend walked in looking like he'd seen a ghost. I've never forgotten his expression. And even more never forgotten the feeling of watching it myself. The only warning I had was him telling me I had to see it, and the movie poster when I got to the theater. Still gives me shudders thinking about it. :)
@@zacettoThat's something that is missing in entertainment today, there are no surprises. In the 70s there were no lengthy trailers or leaked videos of upcoming films or music recordings. Everything today is exposed before we get to see or hear it. There's something to be said for the element of surprises.
@@coachafella Roger Ebert described the feeling after seeing Alien as more akin to mind rape. Alien is not a roller-coaster thriller, it is straight horror where all good feelings are sucked out of you.
@@coachafella I envy you so much, buddy. I wish to Hell I could have been there. I would like you to imagine a six year old me, on the U.K. release. My best mate’s dad, came home shaken, describing how a monster burst out of a man’s stomach; upon him telling me, the whole class were transfixed. Cue endless bull5hit stories of how it happened. My brother managed to convince me Kane ate a space plant.
@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 maybe on occasion, Timberlake could play the 2 and Furphy the 3; then surround them with DuJuan, KJ, and Dickinson or Braun, depending on what you need from the center.
@@ajpend I think we’ll see combinations like that. This appears to be a deep team. I’ve heard great things about Arterio Morris and Elmarko Jackson too. This team will quite possibly have a 9 or even 10 man rotation. I’m really excited to watch Johnny Furphy develop. Hopefully he’ll stay at least two years. I think he may turn into a big time star.
What’s interesting about the violence in Alien is that outside of the famous chest-burster scene, most of the really violent stuff is suggested and not actually shown. When the creature attacks Dallas, and later Parker and Lambert, you don’t actually see much in the way of any direct attack. And Lambert’s death isn’t shown at all, but you hear it thru the intercom as Ripley is racing to help (which turns out to be futile), and then you see a brief and obscured image of the aftermath. Ridley Scott kept a lot hidden from the audience, including full views of the alien itself until the very end, which only served to add to the tension and impact.
It creates stronger participation as we use our own fears to paint the canvas. Why I prefer movies like The Others. Suggestion is more powerful than depiction.
When I was a kid in 1979, our family took a road trip from Canada to California and big on the list of things to see were Disneyland, Alcatraz, quick daytrip into Mexico... the most memorable part of that trip for me was when my mom went shopping and my dad brought me and my brother to see a movie, probably to keep us occupied. Of course, the movie was Alien and I remember the experience to this day, as it was burnt into my 5 year old mind... I turned out mostly normal... mostly 🤣
I didn't see the film until 1986. I was in Memphis, on business, and had a free weekday afternoon. I found a "flex" theater, that is, an ordinary theater with a plywood wall dividing it in two. I was the only person on the "Alien" side, and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was well underway. It seemed that every pivotal terror in Alien was punctuated by sudden screaming from the audience next door. I actually considered leaving, but was, frankly, afraid to stand up. Suddenly, a group of 3-4 people came in and sat directly behind me. What a relief! I still get chills when I see the film on the small screen.
Alien now turns 45! One of the best films ever made. Also my personal favorite. 1979? It feels like this movie was made in the 80's rather than in the 70's. Alien is a true masterpiece!
I was 9 when "Alien" was in the cinema. Dad took me to see it in a theater with the newest technology in West Hartford,loud as hell! I had my face buried in his shoulder during the escape pod scene.
@@humans.from.earth.Nah, we aren't influenced by movies! That's why all the woke movies flop! Hollyweird really thought people were influenced by movies! Not us!🤷🏿♂️👋🏿🫨
Some films become scarier the older you get. When you're that young, it's difficult to understand some of the implications or even remember what is happening scene to scene.
As a kid in the 80s, I was familiar with the action packed Aliens movie. Then when staying at a family friend's house, I was told I could chose one movie to watch and I chose Alien, knowing it was apart of the same series. I could tell almost immediately after putting it on that it had a very different tone. "Oh ow".
My dad took me to see this , I was 15 or so. It was truly groundbreaking and scary at the time! There was a lady sitting behind me and at the famous jump scare scene, she got so scared she started crying. I was so freaked out and shaken by it that when I got home, my older sisters took me to see The Muppet Movie to calm me down 😅.
I remember being a 12YO sitting in the theater with my feet on the seat and my arms wrapped around my shins the entire movie. Still one of my favorites to this day.
My dad used to take me to see the most horrific films ever at the theaters, and I was about 6yrs old at the time. The Exorcist, The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), and I wouldn't sleep for days, sometimes weeks. You know what? LOVED IT! Thanks Dad.😎👍
Probably did some sort of programming on you.. those movies are not meant for kids. Kids need sleep more than most people. Sad your dad did that to your programming. I speak from the same experience.
@@nocternbemsi5619 nah, he's probly legit. i remember one of my earliest memories from around that time is being fascinated with the "Scary rabbit movie", a 1970's B-movie horror film about giant carnivorous rabbits overtaking a small town, called "Night of the Lepus". real Drive-In movie theater kinda film. my parents let me watch B-Movie shlock that featured giant rabbits chewing through people's jugular veins. i remember seeing "The plague dogs" when i was real little, an animated film about 2 escaped abused laboratory test dogs, that ends with both of them swimming into the ocean trying to reach an island that isn't there, hoping for peace, only to drown.
You know, the chest bursting scene was a great jump scare, but it was the suspense and tension throughout the movie that really got to me the first time I saw it.
My brother raced home in 1989 when he found out CBS TV was showing James Cameron's Aliens(1986). It brought Ridley Scott's Alien(1979) back into the mainstream. The chest burster scene was an homage to the comic book Seeds of Jupiter when a cook named "Peach Pit" swallowed an alien embryo!
To this day, if I can't see the bottom of (any body of water), there is a shark with his mouth open waiting for me. Lake, swimming pool, doesn't matter.
@@redrick8900: Jaws is scariest because the story is based on something that happens in reality, shark attacks. Aliens cheat bursting is just not as frequent.
My brother rented Aliens on VHS when I was probably 10 years old and gave me nightmares for *months* afterward. It wasn’t until later that I even found out it was a sequel! The original Alien remains the very definition of horror cinema for me to this day. The way Ridley Scott leaves so much to your imagination only makes it more terrifying. Such a classic.
I am so grateful that my parents took me to see horror films when I was under 10 years old. Some of my most fond memories. I remember seeing the "The Lost Boys" and I just thought it was the greatest thing ever. It helped ignite my passion for music and art.
Man I remember back in the late '80s when I was seven or eight years old probably, some of my friends and I would stay up late watching nightmare on elm Street, Friday the 13th, stuff like that. We loved it. Although I did have trouble going to sleep some nights haha
LOL Bidenflation is real. Speaking of change, its so interesting, in all these old videos you see white people in all the stores and movies and what not, now you rarely see them anymore.
Ridglea Theater has always been one of my favorite theaters growing up. Wow it was cool to see Bobbie Wygant from NBC 5 again, hadn't seen her in decades.
Good God, my older sister had to sneak 14-year-old me in! And adults ran out screaming, and when Parker knocked off Ash's head, a grown man ran out and loudly barfed in the lobby - and people brought their toddlers?
I was the same age as these kids when I first saw the movie, so no harm no foul. Still, I love the dad--now being a dad, myself--who said he doesn't regret taking his kids, because he wants them to know what might be out there in the world. . .as if Chestbursters are something we've all had to occassionally had to deal with.
I saw this in 79. We had The Exorcist, which was pretty scary at the time. But nothing like Alien. There's a tension and foreboding fear that is creepy and drawn out like nothing ever before or since. To think of that thing growing inside you, of a corporation bringing something back that could exterminate humanity, that was all much more scary the first time than it ever could be in the increasingly over the top sequels. A masterpiece of science fiction horror.
Did you know what was coming when Kane started thrashing around and choking on the dinner table? Here's the thing, 'Alien' is a pop culture icon. My generation watched that movie knowing full well where it was going so it's difficult to imagine people who went in blind and were shocked by it, sort of like people who went to see 'The Empire Strikes Back' and were like "He IS his father?! No WAY!!" 😮
Damn straight. Aliens _was_ a good sequel though. Not a common thing. The rest, pretty much meh or flat out garbage. Tbh, with some thought and creativity I think they could make another one now though. 44 years since the masterpiece. Just have to ditch 3, 4, Prometheus and that last junker. Clean slate. Haha
I didn't see Alien in the theater, but I saw Aliens in 1986 when it came out. How's this for crazy parents. Mine took me to see Jaws when I was 5 YEARS OLD!!! My Dad had to carry me out of the theater cause I was hysterically crying. When I got over it, I felt bad for the shark 😂 It's weird, but it created a lifelong fascination with sharks for me. When Shark Week first started I watched it and I've been watching ever since. 😁
I was 10 or 11 when my dad & brother took me to see this in the theater. Scary! But I loved all of the ship-flying/operating/maintenance scenes, really cool near-future sci-fi in realistic style. Still a masterpiece today, it and its first sequel (for different reasons).
I saw Alien for the first time when I was about 9yrs old, I loved it and watched it most days during the summer break, its close to perfection. Back then it seemed like everyone watched the popular horror movies with their families, The Thing, Amityville Horror, The Omen etc. I found Raiders of the Lost Ark more disturbing in places because I wasn't expecting that type of violence. Weirdly, the TV movie of Salem's Lot with David Soul really spooked me and my kid brother.
I was nine, also. My stepdad took me and my stepbrother (who was a few years older and had already seen it) and a friend of the family. I loved every second of it. My mom had not shielded me from horror, and I loved scary movies. This was a bit more intense than I had experienced (except for maybe Halloween, which I had seen just a few months before), but I was there for it. We saw it in a packed theater. The audience loved it. They screamed and cheered, and it's one of my favorite theater memories.
I cant imagine my father taking me as a child to see Alien and saying that it showed things that might happen in real life . the nightmares would never have stopped
I was 13 when my Dad took me to see this in 1979 in 70mm. Where some movie theater's still has giant screens from the 50s. It was like you were right there in the movie, in 2019 I took my Dad to see the re-release of ALIEN for the 40th anniversary. Greatest Sci-fic movie ever made, thanks for sharing. 😊
Alien was filmed in 35mm. A 4k copy (available since 2019, I think) will be at just as good visually, assuming you have the equipment to play it. This is true of a lot of (maybe most) 70mm releases. The reason is that 70mm film had a much higher bandwidth sound track, allowing high fidelity surround sound, which was emerging as a necessity for these kind of movies in the '70s.
@LaserDiscWarrior3043 I don't even own a Laser Disc player and I want. I actually thought about having a losing format war movie party. Bust out Betamax, LaserDisc, HDDVD, stuff like that.
I was a 16yr old movie usher being paid $2.50 an hour when this came to my theater. Worth the low wages to see this movie many times over!! Greatest thrill movie since JAWS at that time. Let a crew of my buddies in the side door one nite with some cold ones and had even more of a fun movie experience!!!
I remember going to the Uptown theater in Cleveland Park Washington DC to see Alien as a kid in 1979 at 13 years old. My sisters boyfriend took me and my friend as he was a sci fi guy as well. It was freaking awesome. So damn scary.
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