In the 1979 horror sci-fi classic, people on the remote towing spaceship Nostromo are terrorized by an alien monster. Fantastically weird sets and alien design by Swiss artist H.R. Giger establish a truly creeptastic environment.

This first of the franchise is sometimes called “Truckers in Space”. Everyone is there to finish a job and collect the money. The second movie in the franchise, Aliens, is “Soldiers in Space”. Alien is the slightly better movie because the characters are more nuanced…