Aliens

James Cameron · 1986 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Ripley wakes from decades adrift and is sent back to the moon where her crew found the derelict, this time with a squad of colonial marines and a company man watching the contract. The colony is silent, one child has survived in the ducts, and the marines walk into a nest built inside the atmosphere processor. Cameron turned a haunted-house premise into a combat picture and made the sequel its own kind of thing.

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  Ridley Scott · 1979 CE · Film

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