10 Famous Movies You Didn't Realise Were Already Other Movies

10. Alien (1979) Is It! The Terror From Out Of Space (1958)

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Alien is often considered to be one of the best movies ever made, given the way it seamlessly blends sci-fi and horror, and there's that bit where Sigourney Weaver is walking around in her underwear. That's a good bit. The movie itself concerns the crew of a space vessel who intercede a transmission on a lone planet, decide to investigate, and accidently bring an alien on board, which proceeds to hatch into a creature of terrifying force and murders them all. It would be a wholly original plot... had it not been the premise of another movie entirely. Yes, Alien owes its allegiance to B-movie from 1958, called It! The Terror From Beyond Space (don't laugh) which isn't as well-known or iconic or even as good as Alien, but does cling to the same story as Ridley Scott's more violent and therefore better-liked picture. So the idea of a spaceship's crew landing on an uncharted planet and picking up an alien by accident? It! An alien using the vents to navigate the ship, and even coming face to face with a blowtorch in one scene? It! The alien being sucked out into space for the finale? Alien! No, I'm kidding - that was It!, too.
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