Add the Alien Quadrilogy Starring Sigourney Weaver to Your DVD Collection

Alien Quadrilogy on DVD

By Luke M., published Sep 19, 2006
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Rating: 3.3 of 5
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Michael Biehn and John Hurt, The Alien Quadrilogy includes all four wild sci-fi/ horror films in both their theatrical and extended cuts. Each film, each version has a brilliant DVD picture quality with equally amazing sound.

Discs 1-2: Alien (1979) Theatrical version (117 min.) 2003 director's cut (137 min.) Commentary by Ridley Scott and technical crew 1.85 anamorphic, English 5.1 DTS, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 2.0 Surround, THX Certified Preproduction: Star Beast (developing the story), First Draft of Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon, The Visualists (direction and design), Ridleygrams (original thumbnails & notes), storyboard archive, Art of Alien (Cobb, Foss, Giger, Moebius), Truckers in Space (casting), Sigourney Weaver's screen test with optional commentary by Ridley Scott, cast portrait gallery Production: Fear of the Unknown (Shepperton Studios, 1978), production gallery, The Darkest Reaches (Nostromo and alien planet), The Sets of Alien, The Eighth Passenger (creature design), The Chestburster (creature design) Post-Production: Future Tense (music and editing), 8 deleted scenes, visual effects gallery (photo archive), A Nightmare Fulfilled (reaction to the film), poster explorations, special shoot, premiere 

Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner) directed this legendary film that started the series. In '79 this was one of the scariest films ever made for a lot of moviegoers. Over the years, remakes and imitations have made this film seem weak. But, overall this is still one of the most suspenseful of all the Alien series. This is the original, the start of it all. It is an essential video, a film released between Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, and a sleek and stylish thriller.

Add the Alien Quadrilogy Starring Sigourney Weaver to Your DVD Collection

Alien Quadrilogy on DVD

Credit: Luke McCall

Copyright: Luke McCall

Takeaways
  • Ridley Scott
  • James Cameron
  • David Fincher
Did You Know?
At a time when most films of its size and scope were being made for approximately 30 - 40 million dollars, Aliens was made for around $18 million
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I'm not much into alien stuff, but I did enjoy this review. Thanks!

Posted on 07/01/2007 at 11:07:00 PM

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