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- Spoilers (13)
Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for sci-fi violence/gore and language |
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Sex & Nudity
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- In one scene, there are pictures of nude women pinned to the wall in the background. They're clearly visible for a minute or two.
Violence & Gore
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- Apart from one scene the violence and gore is of a moderate level. Overall this movie is probably on par with Jaws.
- Blood starts to pour and "rain" down on two characters, right after another character is killed offscreen
- Relatively mild compared to today. Scarier than Jaws, but also less gory/bloody than Jaws.
- Film has some offscreen kills.
- The alien shoots its teeth into a man's head. (quickly, before the camera cuts away). Minor gore.
- In the directors cut an alien bites into a man's head.
- A character is killed offscreen, but their scream is heard.
- A man cuts a "finger" of a facehugger and it bleeds acid.
- A woman is punched, which causes her nose to bleed.
Profanity
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- 5 uses of the F word, 8 uses of 'Shit', 18 uses of 'Hell' 11 uses of "Goddamn" 10 uses of 'God' 5 uses of 'Son of a bitch' 2 uses of "Jesus" 1 use of 'Ass' 1 use of 'Crap' 1 use of "For Christ's sake" 1 use of "For God's sake" and 1 use of "Jesus Christ".
- 'B*tch' is said at least twice.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- The crew members smoke cigarettes and drink canned beer.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The chestburster scene might be the most terrifying part of the franchise.
- The main characters are in mortal danger for a large portion of the film.
- A few jump scares.
- Kane sees egg sack lowly opens and he looks over it and wham...something flies straight for his face which was inside his helmet and attaches itself to him. Once inside sickbay, Kane's face has a facehugger. If that doesn't scare you, the chest scene would.
- The Alien itself is one of the most scary looking monster designs in movie history. The head is very obscure with no relations to any kind of humanoid attributes, which makes it very realistic. The body however is more humanoid, and at some points looks very obvious that it's a person in a costume.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Towards the end of the film a woman strips down to her vest and knickers, her butt crack is seen a couple of times.
Violence & Gore
- A robotic character is burned a bit. We see his fake latex skin burn up and peel back, revealing a mannequin-like shell of a skull. No blood, as the character is a robot.
- It's been theorised that Lambert was assualted by the alien, giving the way it's tail crawls up to her backside
- In the directors cut, Ripley burns Brett, and Dallas, when they are cocooned, when Dallas tells Ripley to do it.
- An alien bursts through a man's chest while he is eating. This is shown onscreen; blood sprays everywhere, as well as onto actors. He writhes in pain before-hand, with blood spurts onto his white shirt inside. Very disturbing. The close up of the would shows the alien rising from out of his torso, and is incredibly gory, meat and blood is shown. This scene is why it was given an R rating.
- A man is hit in the head with a fire extinguisher and white substance comes out of him; he is then hit once more and his head tears off; moments later, we figure out he is a robot; afterwards, the crew asks him questions and at first he answers with sputters and spurts (his blood is white and milky, though).
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The self-destruction sequence is quite intense, with the flashing lights and incredibly loud alarm noises throughout.
- Even though he is shown in frequent danger, Jones the cat makes it out alive and unharmed.
- DELETED SCENE/FROM THE DIRECTOR'S CUT: Ripley walks into a room with no light source but a blow torch in her hand and she sees the Alien's victims in the cocoon.
- In one scene an alien bursts through a man's chest.
- In the scene when Ripley is getting ready for hyper-sleep, she turns around and an alien is hiding in an air duct (very sudden).
- When Dallas is in the air ducts, the alien screeches when he sees him and reaches out to grab him.
- In the scene with the alien eggs, one egg opens and an alien jumps out and jumps around
