10 Best Workplace Horror Movies

Never has space travel felt so... corporate. No Star Trek, this, as Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic reimagines his astronauts as a crew of interstellar space truckers.

Awakened from hypersleep by a mysterious distress call, Dallas (Tom Skerritt) and his crew rush to answer. Among said crew? The iconic Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), here little more than a grunt with a job to do. That job is complicated by the presence of a vicious Xenomorph on their ship, tearing the crew apart with terrifying ease. Ripley and Dallas are good to kill the thing, but android Ash (Ian Holm) has other instructions.

The eponymous alien might be the franchise's most persistent threat, but Ripley and Ash's corporate overlords represent something far more insidious... and human. The Weyland Yutani Corporation looms heavily over all of the Alien films; their obsession with monetizing the creatures causing nothing but death and further destruction. Just ask the film's sequel, and its treacherous company man, Burke.

But no other film in the series has a handle on workplace mundanity like Scott's Alien. The spaceship is clunky and industrial; the crew genuine blue-collar workers, underpaid and overworked. In (office) space, no-one can hear you scream.