I'll tell you what happened to the ALIEN from 1979. Ripley blew it out the GODDAMN airlock.

@musicman201047

Ай бұрын

Yes you think, yet it returns to haunt us again in 4 sequels! 🤣

"In space no one can hear you scream," best tag line ever! The story, sets, design, lighting, cinematography and cast made this one of the best movies of it's time. And it stands up just as well today.

@TripleBerg

Ай бұрын

One of those movies that changed science fiction movies forever.

@TheGodParticle

Ай бұрын

Especially the scene when they climb up and see the space cowboy for the first time.

@JamesLoch-ky3un

Ай бұрын

Yea that movie will scare the hell outa you....

@xenomorphlover

Ай бұрын

ALIEN and even the sequels remain timeless! I don't care what people say about Alien3 or Resurrection but they are still classic Alien movies and part of the franchise as opposed to the trash Prometheus and Covenant was....😒

@RCD566

Ай бұрын

@@xenomorphlover Absolutely agree, I watched the last two just hoping there would be something about them that I would love, just like the originals but sadly no.

After 45 years drifting in space, it hit xenopause and said, " fuck this I'll be in Sigourney Weaver's basement if anyone needs me"

The notion of seeing the "Big Chap" on-screen once again in Alien Romulus is absolutely nuts! Best Sci-Fi franchise ever...

I had the good fortune of seeing Alien on the big screen in 1979. Seeing the trailer for The Empire Strikes Back playing before the film was an unexpected surprise!

This was my first R-rated movie. I was 13 at the time. This movie had the best trailer of all time. It gave almost nothing away. All we got was that glowing egg, bizarro shriek, about 20 seconds of lightning fast flashes and a fade to the tag line. We had no idea what to expect and when that thing popped out of Kane’s chest, we crapped our drawers! Genius! I never had an experience like this again.

Dan I am a 60 year old guy and you and I have the same love of movies, movies, music and monsters. This channel has become one of my favorites over the 6 months or so. Each video you do gives me a great sense of nostalgia. We obviously loved the same things as kids. Lost in Space, Ark II, Planet of the Apes, Land of the Giants, Starlog magazine, etc. Here is a question for you... Any idea what happened to Hector the robot from Saturn 3? I'd love to see your take on that movie.

Dan, everybody knows what happened to the Alien...Ripley spaced it! 🤣

@ManelyLion

Ай бұрын

😂

I was working part time in a Mervyn's store in Cupertino when the movie came out, and they were selling the Kenner toy DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SEASON. I couldn't believe that anyone would buy it as a Christmas gift. Now I wish I had snatched one up.

I remember when this came out , it was when we had a movie explosion of GREAT pictures. It was a HUGE movie and talked about by everyone. Good times and for me I think it was the last best decade of great pictures… I am so glad you are making these video, keep them coming.

Thank you, Don! Ionce met Veronica Cartwright and told her that "Alien" was terrifying.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

Ай бұрын

That's awesome :-) her sister was Penny on Lost in Space :-)

Eddie Powell was Christopher Lee’s stunt double in a few Dracula movies !!

I saw Alien in the theater in '79 ... TOTALLY blew this 13 year old away.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it made a lot of us kids have nightmares for years :-)

@tri-ox9508

Ай бұрын

I was 10, and it did the same to me. It’s my all time favorite movie bar none.

@goneguy9442

Ай бұрын

I saw it in the cinema and I was 14. I was absolutely knocked out by it. So was my classmate next to me.

@jamesmacleod671

Ай бұрын

How did you manage to get in the theater to see it at such a young age, i thought Alien was an 18 certificate.

@goneguy9442

Ай бұрын

@@jamesmacleod671Rated M in Australia.

“Lines around the block”. I still remember that as a kid. Sadly we don’t see that anymore. Hollywood simply didn’t make the kinds of films these days that warrant such a reaction😟

I was luck enough to acquire a Kenners Alien for $5 on sale...still have it, in the box. Long ago, I'd take it out the box to scare the crap outta my little niece😏

Even the trailer is a classic.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

Ай бұрын

It's one of the best trailers out there

@cyberzonie631

Ай бұрын

@@MoviesMusicMonsters … Absolutely

My aunt and uncle dragged me to the drive-in in '79 to see "Alien" when I was 8. I don't remember many details of the film from that night....other than that I was absolutely TERRIFIED when it was all over. Now that I am just a couple years older, and can discern between movie and reality *chuckles* I LOVE this film. Thank you for this video, Dan. Great job!

“ I blew it out of the god damn airlock !! “ ~ Ellen Ripley , last survivor of the Nostromo

Irwin Allen must have been jealous, such a low budget but wow! Lol. I Remember seeing the premiere, and when the egg opened and the Alien flew to his face, a girl on the other side of the theater stood and screamed at the top of her lungs. The audience laughed. When I got home telling the story to my family, my sister put her hands over her face. It was her.what an awesome movie. Thanks Dan.

She blew it out of the goddamn airlock!!

@riproar11

Ай бұрын

* She blew it out of the airlock!!

The eye sockets considerably reduce the horror aspect as it just looks too 'human' ..Im glad they filmed Alien with these hidden - it made it much scarier!

In the theater where I saw it, the thing that startled the crap out of everyone was that darned cat. A lot screaming followed by lots of nervous chuckling. Mostly my own.

Way ahead of its time- still holds up today … brilliant!

Alien and Jaws were ground breaking suspense/horror movies, and I loved them both. But I agree with you about not over exposing the creature. That's why those movies were just so scary to me. "Aliens" was fantastic excitement, but the aliens were now familiar and numerous, so they lose some of the scariness magic I think.

That alien toy, I played with it in Sears, the poor barbies didn't stand a chance. And I was 26 at the time..lmao.

Sigourney was not accompanied by soldiers. She was accompanied by Colonial Marines.

My church youth group forced me to see Exorcist at 10 years old. THAT is the most scariest movie for a kid!

Sitting on my desk is an 18” tall Queen with a wall with a person glued to it. When you push a button a chest burster pops out.

I'll bet I spent half of the movie looking down at my shoes. I was never so scared at a theater as I was that day.

I actually threw my hands up in front of me and screamed like a little girl when the Xenomorph got Captain Dallas. Yeah, everyone in the theater laughed at me. In 1979, my 16-year-old ego took a while to recover from that one. lol

Man...I don't remember the alien having such a prominent human skull...it's even creepier

@eclipsehorse8693

Ай бұрын

I never considered that until this video to be honest. Maybe it has something to do with how the organism adapts to it's new host inside, and 'forms' around it's host's DNA as well as it's own. This is kind of hinted at in the dog in Alien 3

I was 5 when this came out and my babysitter was looking after me at her house and had a pirate copy of Alien and made me sit and watch it, that night when I went back home to bed I was convinced that I had an alien in my stomach and screamed the house down all night. My Dad has to explain that it wasn't real and was just a puppet. Needless to say my parents didn't allow my babysitter to ever look after me again. Scared for life....

@budgiecat9039

Ай бұрын

My friend in kindergarten had the toy i was jealous 😂

I was in 9th grade and couldn't talk my parents into taking me to see Alien. I had to wait until it came out on cable TV. At that point we didn't have a video player (They were about $500 in 1980. Back when that was a lot of money.). When I finally saw it I was instantly hooked.

If possible, watch some of the "Behind the Scenes" videos for _Alien_ because it shows some of the many very clever tricks they used to save money (like using kids in spacesuits in some scenes to give a false sense of scale).

I saw Alien in the theaters in 1979 and during the infamous dinner scene I leaned over to my buddy and said to him.."they do that shit again we're leaving".

Both man who portrayed the Alien have since passed away, Bolaji Badejo (1953-1992) and Eddie Powell (1927 - 2000) RIP both of you gentlemen. (note: Bolaji was offered the role of one of the aliens in ALIENA in 1986, but he turned it down and he already had moved to Nigeria in 1980, that was his only screen role).

The big chap was the best version of the Alien . Subsequent iterations got less biomechnoid and more dinosaur like .

Went to go see "Aliens" in the theater opening night and there was a full scale model of the xenomorph in the lobby that was roped off. Totally cool! I always wondered where it wound up.

@leemurphyhaverhill

Ай бұрын

There was a full size model of a predator in a London book shop on the kings road. That was epic, loved seeing it

Hi ! As you , it was a Stendhal syndrome when I saw for the 1st time the paints and designs of the ALIEN BIG SHAP in the Metal Hurlant special edition bought by my father back in 79. I was 10 and the nightmare never left me since this day . If I have a movie to watch in my dying bed , it's this one , well , Blade Runner too . These two master pieces are the fruit of magical times and outstanding genious Artists . Your vids Rocks man !

I “had” a 18 inch tall alien toy in the 80s. Super collectible…😢 kids can be really stupid with her toys is the lesson of the story.

As an 8 year old kid, even the commercials scared the crap out of me! The nightmares i had, where i thought an alien was living in the attic…. lol when you talked about ‘protection’, I thought you’d been sponsored by Trojans. 😂 5:30

@igorschmidlapp6987

Ай бұрын

I was waiting for the Trojan segue, too... LOL....

I saw one of the original used costumes and heads in the HR Giger Museum in Switzerland last year. Absolutely stunning!!!

The look of the film was absolutely unique for that time. Just really cool. Ahead of its time.

Wow, your channel is blowing up! Good on ya, Dan. You do excellent work.

What happened to the ALIEN from 1979? Ripley "blew it out of the god damn airlock"

He's in his 50s now. Wondering where all the time went, noticing aches and pains, taking longer to stand, going "oooofff" whenever he sits down and telling all the younger aliens "I used to come here when it was all just planets"

@YAMISOOLD2009

16 күн бұрын

🤣🤣😂

Well worth the wait! Excellent video!

The skull isn't visible in the film, or in any others in the series, but it's visible on the action figure. I always noticed that and always wondered why.

When this movie came out, it was something new and different. I've read the opinion that it wasn't a "Sci-Fi" movie, but it was a HORROR movie, set in SPACE. It was really scary. Love this channel, Thanks...

@jeffrix27

Ай бұрын

Being in space and being fiction it's literally science fiction "sci-fi

I thought you were going to say where is the alien when it went out the space lock.

@timoneil6582

Ай бұрын

Same here. Not the greatest title, but ended up being a good video.

Ebert was usually pretty good for reviews, but Alien is so much more than a haunted house in space. It was beautiful, wonderful, horrible, and oh, so inspiring.

@RD-lt3ht

Ай бұрын

And a Freudian psycho-sexual nightmare!

Another amazing entry. Thanks, Dan!

H.R. Giger"s grave is covered with his art......very orignal artist he was......

Hands down Alien & Aliens is the best in the franchise

Classic...Sigourney Weaver in her underwear was well worth watching the whole movie...

@Pedal2Metal_on_YouTube

Ай бұрын

Exactly! I was 16 and saw her on the big screen and fell in love... lol

@musicman201047

Ай бұрын

She had great legs.

@redpillnibbler4423

23 күн бұрын

But why the child size panties? 🤔

I was 29 when Alien came out. I have seen that movie multiple times. One of the best movies ever made! The second one wasn’t too shabby either!

@guccigremlin

Ай бұрын

so ur 74 years old now ? didn’t think ur generation even knows what youtube is or how to use a smartphone 🤔

@danbgt

Ай бұрын

@@guccigremlin Wow! That was very unkind. I will be 74 later this year. I am a retired structural engineer and have been using computers since the early 1980’s. I am very comfortable with technology. Which generation do you think invented computer technology?

@v.rudeboy9829

Ай бұрын

​​@@danbgt mic drop.. oh & many Happy returns for your 74th later this year..

@redpillnibbler4423

23 күн бұрын

@@guccigremlin Why not?

Sharper Image sold a 6’ ft plus statue of the Alien in the late 90’s for $3500 +.

@roylcraft

Ай бұрын

And you passed it up? I wonder what they are worth now?

NECA toys redid the 12 inch Kenner Alien right down to the same packaging a few years back. Bought one for 100 bucks.

Veronica Cartwright was also in the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds

@jeffrix27

Ай бұрын

And invasion of the body snatchers

It was in Heavy Metal Magazine...😊

The feeling of dread in this movie was out of this world.

Dude, are you kidding?!? THE preeminent horror movie of all time! Back in '79, most theaters had just one screen, and they were HUGE - 70mm, SurroundSound, bass throws, etc. ALIEN was at a particular theater like that for 8 months! Every showing had at least one Denver Paramedic van waiting outside for those who fainted at Kane's chest-bursting scene. I saw this icon 23 times (at $2.50 a pop), with sisters, brothers, friends, my now-wife (who asked me if we could leave after the egg opened to attack Kane.) My only gripe with "Aliens" was that the xenomorphs were being killed off like flies - this after Ash, in the original, told Ripley that they couldn't be killed - PHOOEY, I say! I do have the original toy still, with it's "squeeze head/ jaw eject" mechanism. There will NEVER be another like it, although "Prometheus" is close. Thanks for the close look, buddy - fantastic!! -- Steve

Thank you Dan for bringing back my nightmares about Alien, I didn't sleep for 2 weeks looking under my bed and my closet, I went to bed and something was biting my toes that I flu out of my bed to see it was my G. I. Joe doll under my sheets lol

@ARWest-bp4yb

Ай бұрын

That's why our mom wouldn't let us see Jaws a few years earlier!🤣

@alanwasserman8176

Ай бұрын

@@ARWest-bp4yb I didn't get to see Jaws till I was 17 lol

Another winner, Dan. My favorite horror movie of all time. The Alien was so foreign and disturbing, it took years to get it out of my mind. I still watch it when I can. Almost to 90k. Congrats again. I’ve never seen a channel take off so quickly!!

I remember getting chills when I saw this movie for the first time not long after it came out...

Whenever I used to watch Siskel and Ebert rate movies, If they gave it thumbs down then I knew I had to watch it if they gave it a thumbs up I knew it was going to be an artsy fartsy film that would bore the shit out of me lol

@folgore1

Ай бұрын

Siskel and Ebert actually liked Alien and thought it was scary. Their tastes did extend beyond art house type films though they would get annoyed at endless sequels.

@gloomyvale3671

Ай бұрын

@@folgore1 the fat guy liked it, but a month later panned it, no doubt like most critics they were victims to peer pressure, these two bloated gas bags were shit stains on the industry.

I was 9 years old and had that toy. It was awesome and freaked out my -parents even though they bought it for me. Even then I could tell that it was meant to be posed and not played with too much. The glowing brains were a nice touch on it.

As always great job Dan!

I’ve seen the one at the museum it pop culture. I took a picture with it and told children it’s my pet.

This was the most terrifying movie I ever saw. I remember coming out of the theater and my legs were actually shaking. How cool is that.

Fantastic storytelling Dan! Between Aliens, and Monty Python we who grew up during that time are a strange lot.

@lancerevell5979

Ай бұрын

Hey, I resemble that comment! 😅

@eclipsehorse8693

Ай бұрын

wouldn't trade it for the world! :)

Ripley blew it out the God damn airlock!

@sigma2.093

Ай бұрын

Yup, and she nuked all the rest from orbit ...only way to be sure.

My mom loves sci fi and took me to see Alien when it came out in '79. I got a cool mom!

Keep up the fun and entertaing work, Mr. Monroe!

That Film is a Masterpiece and a Fine Work of Art

Good one Glaz!

Awesome. When I was working in Hollywood, my boss's brother was the executive producer and co-writer of this film so I'm very close to it. And coincidentally, a close friend, make-up artist Rodd Matsui, was one of the people that restored one of the original suits. It was impressive being in its presence.

I was 10...And just like Jamie below; My first R rated film. A pair of buddies and I asked my parents to drive us to theater to watch a kids movie. We bought our tickets, and then snuck into Alien just in time. I was soo scared that I had to come clean to my dad , after we got home. He didn't tell my mom, and let me sleep with my light on for a few nights, until I could get a grip on my terror.

Asesome Dan thank you. just came in from mowing the lawn. sat down and saw your vid. love it. thanks for what you do.

I was at the first secret test screening at the Highland Park Village theater in Dallas before it was released and we had no idea what was going to happen. People actually ran out of the theater when the chestburster popped.

I know that the studio sent a lot of set pieces to Bob Burns for his Hallowed show.

Wish I kept the box for my Alien toy, still have the toy with the dome.....

Great show Dan, that was a scary show when i was a kid.

I'm 57 years old and this movie still gives me nightmares. Such a classic. I got my "How cool is that" tshirt today, Dan. Gonna wear it at my gig next weekend.

Cocooned itself and waited for someone to pick it up..

@shrimp3683

22 күн бұрын

That's very likely of what's gonna happen in the new Alien movie

I would imagine they need oxygen specifically and maybe water and food but once life support system shut down on the ship and when the oxygen got used up, and the whole ship is filled with carbon dioxide, the aliens died.

Before the movie was released I found a comic in drugstore that depicted the major scenes in the movie. I later saw the movie with my wife. Before the John Hurt ‘chest’ scene, I turned and carefully took the popcorn container from her so it wouldn’t go flying. I think that freaked her out more than the scene.😂

@eclipsehorse8693

Ай бұрын

oh it freakd out the cast too! Veronica Cratwright and Yaphette Koto had ZERO idea what was going to happen until they shot that scene- Veronica Cartwright's reaction is 1000% genuine!

@TripleBerg

Ай бұрын

@@eclipsehorse8693 I heard that! 😂 Ridley Scott got his reaction shot. 😏

@eclipsehorse8693

Ай бұрын

@@TripleBerg "shhh don;t tell them what's going to happen! watch, this will be fun!!"

@TripleBerg

Ай бұрын

@@eclipsehorse8693 😂😂

How about what happened to the Colonial Marines APC from the movie "Aliens"!?

@eclipsehorse8693

Ай бұрын

Ripley blew the trans axle- they threw it in the dumpster... lolz

This came out while I was in high school. I had already seen it but talked my mom into going to see it with me again. She sat in that chair with her knees to her chin through almost the entire movie. Great memory of just the 2 of us.

I still have my '79 Kenner alien figure , sadly, missing an arm..

The tag line "In Space, no one Can Hear you Scream," that kept me from watching this film!!!! Awesome scary, along with "When Hell Is Full, the Dead will Walk the Earth."

I've always thought the tail of "Big Chap" reminded me of a fossilized tail of a T-Rex. H.R. Giger is my favorite "mad scientist." I loved the cast - great characters who I felt terribly when they were killed one-by-one. Thanks, Dan Monroe.

I think this is the first movie we bought, back then I think it was $75 or so. Love this movie.

Finally, a happy ending!! Iconic props NOT ending up in the trash bin or in some guy's basement!!

H R Gieger's vision was amazing

Yes am with you, not seeing the alien much works

Kind of weird to see that it has a human skull inside the top of the head. I don't think we ever saw that in the movie. To me the forehead just looked glossy black.

Edit again. Back then, in England I was 15, and so I couldn't go to my local cinema to see it. It was an X rated film (18 or over). Because I couldn't see it I bought all the books I could so I could see the film in my mind. All of those original books have been lost to time, and I have replaced them with reissues.......except the A4 photostory and the poster magazine. I kept them in great condition. My American wife and I went to see the movie on the big screen for its 45th Anniversary two weeks ago tonight, at the AMC Veterans 24 here in Tampa. First time on the big screen for both of us.

sorry dan i thought you was jerry springer

Thank you for the update. Those movies ARE amazing!!.. Can't wait for the other ones. 👍😃