Alien (documentary)

Documentary film maker Ridley Scott doing research for Alien.

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

Themes

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

Box-office failure

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The Demon Izpuzteque, accidentally summoned during Scott's research. Ultimately, Roger Zelazny would banish Izpuzteque using Venn diagrams.

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

• Do Blade-Runners Shave Their Electric Sheep?
• Noctua's Revenge (documentary film)
• Ridley Scott

Nonfiction cross-reference

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