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== Themes ==


Reviewers have characterized ''Alien'' as "a brooding meditation on [[man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)]]."
Reviewers have characterized ''Alien'' as "a brooding meditation on [[man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)]]."
== Box-office failure ==


''Alien'' failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by stripping most of support crew of their [[mitochondria (nonfiction)]] and other vitals.
''Alien'' failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by stripping most of support crew of their [[mitochondria (nonfiction)]] and other vitals.

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Documentary film maker Ridley Scott doing research for Alien.

Alien is a 1979 documentary film by Ridley Scott.

In the News

Reviewers have characterized Alien as "a brooding meditation on man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)."

Alien failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by stripping most of support crew of their mitochondria (nonfiction) and other vitals.

Scott barely managed to survive, barricading himself within a virtual identity shelter.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference