Officer Ellen Ripley, only survivor of the commercial space craft Nostromo, is the reigning queen of the horror genre as she takes on the deadliest of monsters: the unrelenting and ridiculously hard to kill extraterrestrials of the Alien franchise. Released in 1979, this well-constructed Ridley Scott masterpiece not only features the first woman to fight back against her blood hungry stalker, but it also leaves us with a lone female who makes it to the very end, defeating the rather cunning alien predator. Whether it's due to her unyielding struggle to survive or subtly sensual ensemble in the last scene, Sigourney Weaver comes off surprisingly sexy in this film and provides a nice deviation from the common, buxom women who ruled the genre during the rest of the 80s.
Officer Ellen Ripley, only survivor of the commercial space craft Nostromo, is the reigning queen of the horror genre as she takes on the deadliest of monsters: the unrelenting and ridiculously hard to kill extraterrestrials of the Alien franchise. Released in 1979, this well-constructed Ridley Scott masterpiece not only features the first woman to fight back against her blood hungry stalker, but it also leaves us with a lone female who makes it to the very end, defeating the rather cunning alien predator. Whether it's due to her unyielding struggle to survive or subtly sensual ensemble in the last scene, Sigourney Weaver comes off surprisingly sexy in this film and provides a nice deviation from the common, buxom women who ruled the genre during the rest of the 80s.