Top billed cast

1. 

   Kurt Russell

   MacReady

2. 

   Wilford Brimley

   Blair

3. 

   T.K. Carter

   Nauls

4. 

   David Clennon

   Palmer

5. 

   Keith David

   Childs

6. 

   Richard Dysart

   Dr. Copper

7. 

   Charles Hallahan

   Norris

8. 

   Peter Maloney

   Bennings

9. 

   Richard Masur

   Clark

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Reviews

A review by whitsbrain

Written by whitsbrain on 2024-01-30

I've seen this movie so many times. I own it twice on DVD, I own it on 4K, Blu-Ray and I even have a copy on the now defunct HD-DVD format. I regret not seeing it in the theaters back in 1982. I don't know why I didn't go. I was certainly old enough to appreciate it. Instead, I saw "E.T.". I got swept up in happy little alien fever. I went with the crowd. All I had to do was wander over to a different screen and watch Carpenter's creation in all its paranoid glory. Sigh...

As with all good movies, music, or books, I experience something new every time I view it. I keep trying to piece toget...read the rest

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2. Alien: Romulus71%
3. Event Horizon65%
4. Lifeforce62%
5. Prometheus66%
6. Sphere61%
7. Body Snatchers61%
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers72%
9. Pandorum65%
10. The Invasion60%
11. Annihilation64%
12. Primitive War66%
13. The Invisible Man70%
14. Color Out of Space60%
15. The Void60%
16. Osiris61%
17. The Fly74%
18. The Mist69%
19. No One Will Save You67%
20. A Quiet Place: Day One66%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$19,629,760.00

Keywords

• spacecraft
• helicopter
• space marine
• cold
• based on novel or book
• isolation
• mutation
• paranoia
• snowstorm
• research station
• alien life-form
• alien
• remake
• survival
• creature
• helicopter pilot
• antarctica
• shape shifting alien
• alien infection
• survival horror
• sled dogs
• alien monster
• alien parasites
• isolated place
• uncertainty
• blood test
• body horror
• ambiguity
• lovecraftian
• distressing