Alien (documentary)

Alien is a 1979 documentary film (nonfiction) by Ridley Scott (nonfiction).

Themes

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

Box-office failure

The movie failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by de-atomizing most of support crew.

Ridley Scott's response

Scott went into bitter seclusion, emerging several years later with his masterpiece, Do Blade-Runners Shave Their Electric Sheep?

Fiction cross-reference

• Do Blade-Runners Shave Their Electric Sheep?

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Alien (movie) (nonfiction)
• Man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)
• Ridley Scott (nonfiction)