Alien (1979) Opening Scene (Re-Sound)

[@charlesbowen395]

Probably among the best films ever made in the horror genre.

[@998jayboy]

Agreed been a fan of this pretty much my whole life

[@dineshisrani1977]

You bet.

[@crunchyanimations3289]

And the scariest

[@walcottdion5821]

@@998jayboy same here🖒

[@tamastarczy6262]

Any genre.

[@MegaMac464]

The old school future tech its probably my favorite thing about this movie. I love a sci fi world that isnt super cleaned and polished but instead looks thrown together and lived in. The shot of the computer screens reflecting on the helmets has always been one of my favorites

[@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167]

Because a wired keyboard is easier to replace than a touchscreen when you’re light years from WalMart.

[@gregholman2431]

Yea. The ship, as a whole, is quite industrial, and it is rather blue-collar, as well, basically. It is almost kind of like a big garage in space.

[@jrag1000]

The Tech is actually more realistic as minimalist as it is because simple would be more reliable and less prone to complex issues and errors.

[@iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606]

@@gregholman2431 That was the producer point, to give the impression the crew are outer space truckers

[@gregholman2431]

@@iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606 Yep. Yep, indeed.

[@jimw281972]

The data reflecting off the helmet visor. Something about it is unnerving.. Brilliant shot.

[@daustin8888]

The sounds of the computer (an antagonist in its own right) are also unsettling

[@RSTI191]

I saw this when it came out in 79 at the Charles in Boston. Old school 2 level theater with the side opera seats. Perfect for it. I'll never forget the audience as they exited when it was over. Nobody was saying a word. Everyone was completely stunned, in shock, by what they just witnessed. Ridley Scott's finest work for my money..

[@Wildhogs2007]

You felt the bass from the Dolby stereo huh ?

[@freegee3503]

😂 Sounds almost as dramatic as the movie.

[@jonnyqwst]

Where I saw Star Wars, July 1977. Perfect theater for a great big movie

[@RSTI191]

@@jonnyqwst Bowdoin Station baby..

[@ole9421]

A great opening scene. The suspense sets in immediately.

[@johnnyboy1586]

I was going to say the exact same thing

[@dynjarren7523]

This opening just gave one the impression that space was huge and impersonal. And giant corporations own and run the ships that travel through the enormous and vast cold space. It definitely makes space look dangerous and hostile to humans. So the overall impression was ominous and foreboding. Then when you see what they end up dealing with you realize space is not a place for humans. It’s just brutal and merciless.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I think the whole idea of going to Mars with people is insane. People are going to die and/or get sick and it's going to do nothing for our ailing planet.

[@JustRandomPerson]

Stop the Philosophical Zombies it was true for all long range travels/colonizations when they happened for the first time. In the time scale of few centuries it is irrelevant, even if couple of millions peoples die for it.

[@calql8er]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 First colonies on the moon, then the flight to Mars.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

JustRandomPerson • 67 years ago • edited That’s a really good argument, but Mars is a categorically different animal. Read Philip K Dick’s Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

[@calql8er]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Agreed. But there are some lessons we need to learn first and we can learn them first from years on a moon colony. Besides, we can mine a whole bunch of helium 3.

[@jusadude7162]

Never tire of this movie. I can watch it over and over and still get freaked out

[@ChairmanMeow1]

the suspense hits you INSTANTLY

[@ChairmanMeow1]

@@TrepidRelic Right? The first 60 seconds and youre totally locked in already.

[@mdabdullah4379]

That eerie silence at the beginning!! It gives me chills

[@kzinful]

The dunking bird ( Ha! ) This opening was so masterful, a lens into the lives of the crew. The calm before the storm I love this movie

[@johnjacobsen1915]

Amazing how they captured a far in the future feel while still communicating that it has been sitting idle for years and looked stark and unlived in and neglected. The lights flickering on and the electronics, HVAC, and current flow noises echoing in the cold commercial ship, really just work so perfectly.

[@fungames24]

Those were the days, when monitors printed text using dot-matrix tech.

[@aepogee]

Hehe, yes, but oh so fitting :)

[@TymexComputing]

The monitors were just more expensive substitute for printers or rather for teletypes

[@anthonymurphy5850]

Dont forget the sticky notes on the monitors...thats what I love....this was a very believably movie... I reallly thought being in space was DANGEROUS

[@dmrr7739]

The nice thing about dot matrix monitors was that you could put carbonless paper in them to make backups.

[@Cryptonymicus]

@@dmrr7739 Given that this was a Ridley Scott production we're probably lucky he put computers in it and not steam-operated calculating machines or magical mathematical bunnies.

[@bobwerner6967]

Before "Alien" there were science fiction movies, good, bad, everything in between. Then this came out and completely changed EVERYTHING. Greatest sci-fi of all time. I saw it the first week it came out in '79. My girlfriend at the time, later wife, was a John Hurt fan. Otherwise we knew nothing about it. He had given an interview beforehand and said he was in this new "sci-fi horror flick" so off we went to see it. I have never been in a movie theater, before or since, where the tension grew minute by minute, not knowing was coming next. Then the famous first appearance of the alien. The audience at this point was slowly becoming more and more hysterical, my gf's head was in her lap at this point, people were screaming and climbing the walls. Then the grand finale...she was squeezing my hand and still couldn't look up at the screen. She was not alone! The last 5 minutes, the alarm noise, the flashing lights, Nostromo blows up, spectacularly, then, peace at last, into the escape pod, Ripley sheds her space suit, gets the kitty settled in and prepares for sleep, then...oh...look...up in under some equipment...did we just see something move...?

[@captaincapitalism264]

Yep, agreed: changed Everything. I mean, Star Wars also changed sci-fi *action*, elevating it to a whole new level too, but...Alien? It took the realistic, stark sci-fi of the likes of 'Silent Running' and combined it with man-vs-nature horror to masterpiece levels.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Ah, the sound of an Epson printer in the distant future.

[@pauljames9738]

Sure, why not? I have a digital camera, totally silent, until I hit the option that gives a completely unnecessary but very satisfying shutter-release-sound. It's a humanizing thing.

[@urbannpa]

Ever watch Babylon 5...they still have VGA Monitors!

[@jimgracey3822]

Good old dot matrix!

[@novaturbkkk]

The man who made this film is from my home town. Absolute legend

[@martina2659]

In the future people had enough of the buggy heap of crap we call Windows and went back to DOS

[@nikhilpanikkar]

LOL

[@williamference9221]

Again, tech limitations from '79, but it works here aesthetically

[@cineffect]

Technology gets used, dirtied, oiled, stained, it is not sterile, something CGI seems to forget...

[@germanicelt]

I remember showing this to my high school friends, who all loved Aliens, back in 1990 and I still remember one of them saying "so are there people in this movie?" during this opening scene.

[@nidhavellir]

Tremendous work. Love the sounds of the bulbs lighting up. Spacially vivid.

[@dineshisrani1977]

The flickering of the pages.

[@aepogee]

Urk, how i struggled to match my recordings with the visuals, foley artists really are the unsung heroes of movies

[@redpixel297]

Such a legendary film!

[@jerrybot3000]

Ah, fluorescent bulbs... The future!

[@inthezone666]

Nice work. I liked the computer sounds in particular.

[@sammencia7945]

The sets are a work of art on such a low budget.

[@Ximonic]

Very good work! It does justice for the atmosphere of the settings.

[@garyclouse7234]

So in the future, monitors sound just like line printers!

[@kalekold]

Before monitors there were indeed mechanical teleprinters.

[@dinoXAs2]

Yes after the dark age of technology

[@edby263]

Such little details that build the whole. 2:45 the door opens, then the sheets flutter in the breeze created. Of course that would happen, but when I first saw this in 1979 no director had thought of such a realistic detail.

[@normandydrumstudios]

This ambiance is unreal !

[@micheladerry5681]

the opening scene is one of the best in the history of cinema. Rises a lot of suspance

[@HUGOBRAIN]

Beats CGI by far.

[@jimmyzhao2673]

1:52 Where did the coffee cup come from ? one minute it is not there, then it appears at 1:56

[@NorthForkFisherman]

Good catch. Could be it's supposed to be another flight station rather than a continuity error.

[@gdsvalentine1193]

Make no mistake, this is class like never before.

[@lp.lechanjour]

This movie now belongs to the legend of cinema. Each year its fame grows a bit more.

[@lensw0rld633]

Honestly great work. It's very immersive

[@iw_legendary_sayain2215]

It’s so simple yet so effective! Very effective using the inside of your refrigerator for the ship!

[@DadandThad]

Great work on the sound! I've seen this remastered and this clip sounds so much better a noticable difference!

[@claussteiner5857]

Alien the 8th passenger is alone in his own league since then #1

[@drmeam406]

when I watched it (15 years old with my German pen pal - I said I heard it was a good film that we must watch so we did one sat night his mum and dad were out). we didn't know the story in any detail and we were terrified from the outset. The music and sounds build anticipation and anxiety. we thought something had happened already on the nostrum and couldn't relax and it was very clever manipulation and we were on the edge of our seats. Neither of us slept well but I was at that age I enjoyed the themes and scares and story and wasn't just frightened. intrigued. my grandmother watched it alone in rural Wales and said she regretted it but she couldn't switch it off

[@nealwhaley63]

Okay, so there are signs of ventilation throughout the ship: papers rustling in a binder and crew robes fluttering when the door opens. But then we hear the sound of breathable air flooding the hibernation chamber.

[@AlmostGrewMyHair]

The interior looks so believable, even in 2020. I keep coming back to this movie in my life. Now planning to play Alien Isolation so checking behind the scenes cut content from the movie.

[@jerrycoob4750]

Absolutely nailed the creepiness.

[@olentangy74]

The sound design should have got an Oscar

[@drewrosecrans9728]

So relaxing 🙂 I'd be happy to hear it on a loop for hours during sleeping 😴

[@Skynet_the_AI]

I will try this out as well! Nice work!

[@aepogee]

Thanks buddy ☺ feel free to link me up the result, would love to hear/see your take on it 👍

[@Skynet_the_AI]

@@aepogee >>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKDVenV9bKZpapo I have over-saturated the video with computer interface SFX. I used star trek ship ambience and LCARS computer SFX, starfox video game SFX, computer interface and beeps SFX, and other miscellaneous youtube foley SFX. My volume levels are off as I've use my phone for my re-sounding projects. Not quite as easy as using a computer app or program. But I must say your upload is quite clean. I am a big fan of your re-sounding. And your refrigerator sound byte is gold! Cheers!

[@PUBHEAD1]

Your refrigerator must be terrifying when getting late night snacks

[@frednicolas3811]

Sound design at its best. Retro tech only can achieve this

[@tiphares2355]

Excellent work.. This should be implemented in original version. Very menacing boot-up. i also like the beeping sound getting louder when camera is approaching console - gives a much more intense atmospheric feeling.

[@sta8ise]

Never thought that a spike-printer would be so cool...

[@sweetpea3795]

Best sci-fi film ever.

[@NeroWantsFire]

Oh man, the scene that set up this masterpiece

[@erikmartin4996]

I wish I had been old enough to see this in the theaters when I was a kid

[@thomasdivine2899]

Alien is so cool, because it's quiet and and calm and creepy, it's a fantastic movie, one of my very most favorites, next to the howling and the thing

[@mirazusta2002]

Great intro. Thank you for posting

[@Hashpotato]

I honestly believe the sets for Alien are the greatest sets Ive ever seen for any film.

[@danielbeltrami4568]

Im-pre-sio-nan-te!!!. La he visto 40/50 veces y me sigue atrapando, me sigue emocionando. Soy un afortunado.

[@SaigonBrit]

Great work! Have you tried the video game Alien Isolation. It won a load of sound design awards and also used a ton of samples from the original Alien movie. Definitely in my top 5 games for sound design.

[@aepogee]

Yes, i love Alien: Isolation, it's one of my all-time favorite games :) And yes, i agree, it has amazing sound design, they nailed that game,10/10 points from me :) Heard rumors of a follow-up a while back, crossing fingers :)

[@SaigonBrit]

@@aepogee me too.....one day it'll happen:))

[@Mongoswede]

Scariest game I've played in a long time.

[@SaigonBrit]

@@Mongoswede it's a work of art. I have both the xbox live and Steam PC versions, the original xbox one version and the newer Switch version (which looks better than any other console version!!). Absolute master work. They must do a sequel.

[@Mongoswede]

@@SaigonBrit I've only got Xbox 360 version but it'll work on my Xbox one as well. I'm not sure have have the mental fortitude to play it again....but on the One with my good headset and the lights turned out....yikes

[@stephenlindow4421]

Wow! The new sounds!

[@tonycat721]

0:48 I just can't under stand those drinking birds still in action .... days weeks months or years in space flight and they are still moving ?...can some one please explain...

[@garymcgrath8246]

Brilliant scene

[@N.G.S._01]

Here’s what I absolutely LOVE about Ridley Scott’s direction style. With something like “Alien”, would you ever guess it was made in Freaking 1979?!

[@oldschooljack3479]

I work in heavy industry in a facility of rather advanced age... You can tell that the Nostromo was once state of the art... Long before the film takes place. But she has been modified and refit. And while still functional, she is still just another piece of industrial machinery that works but has all of the peculiarities and quirks of an aged piece of equipment.

[@Psevdokranos]

masterpiece and a school of its own wrt SciFi faculty

[@starpawsy]

Uhhh, wot's with the dot matrix printer sound when there is no printer? LOL

[@kevinmalone3210]

Great science fiction movie. I saw it in the theater when it came out in the late 70s. The alien was horror incarnate.

[@anyfasterklaus5788]

Good work. I like your approach.

[@garyandrewranford]

Honestly.... Don't watch this clip Unless... You have a pair of decent headphones or a mighty cinema surround sound system... This movie set the standard that very few movies have reached and even fewer have surpassed. A masterpiece

[@jacquelineess1141]

Best opening scene and best sci-fi thriller OF ALL TIME. 👌

[@chavito808]

I would watch this with THX sound

[@johnreynolds2512]

I love that the screen has to make noises like a broken dot matrix printer when it really should just be silent. I mean, if that's the future of computers. . . .

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@damiencholet]

masterpiece

[@boyblue80]

It had music, the uploader has simply re-sounded it to not have music.

[@ralphwallace2223]

This movie was made in the middle of the green screen era for computers. No graphical user interface - strictly character based display. They didn’t know.

[@luislizard2626]

Let’s all take a minute and reflect to the fact that you won’t ever experience such an epic masterpiece opening like this one!!!!!! I can only imagine people sat in the dark in the cinema viewing this for the first time!!!! ( especially those who consumed a fat blunt before entering the theatre!!!)✌️

[@bluefive1727]

I saw this for the first time in a cinema when it first came out. I had just turned 18. Been my favourite movie ever since. :)

[@lucianohairston-gomes6638]

does anyone know what synth was used to make the sounds on the computers?

[@montanajoe4636]

I believe they used actual Epson printers and MS DOS systems

[@lucianohairston-gomes6638]

@@montanajoe4636 lolll thank you haha

[@rembeadgc]

I was with it!

[@andreasvandestern4518]

Sounds better and reminds me of my father's old printer!

[@Riktenstein]

Good work

[@R3AktoRMacedonia]

I like it, especially the stereo dot matrix sound :) Imo you should add the original music from the opening.

[@aepogee]

I did consider adding the soundtrack, but it would most likely have banned the video :/

[@blockmasterscott]

@@aepogee This is true. I have to agree with Kenneth on this one.

[@aramirez8427]

Best space horror movie ever........I watched it as a kid........what a mistake, didnt sleep for a month

[@WilliamTheUnkownShoutout]

@aramirez8427 I saw both Alien (1979) and The Thing (1982) in the 1990s as a kid and yeah both of these movies amazing sci-fi horror movies Alien (1979) did an amazing job at scaring me and made me stressed and The Thing (1982) it was the most scariest and the most disturbing movie I have ever watched but The Thing (1982) did it to me way more than Alien (1979) did but now as an adult they are both the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever created and I watch both of them everyday as well:).

[@chefbillybaroo2056]

Almost perfect! In my opinion they would be less lights on save energy. If everyone is hibernating there is no need for lights………

[@xaraxen]

Glad that the dot matrix printer is still around.

[@milkcartonmagic6316]

It was only when watching this that I realised how similar the opening scene is to Star Wars ANH.

[@Leondrius]

Even the bridge is creepy, especially those helmets.

[@nickd1978]

Great job!

[@johnwiiu7005]

This resound sounds like my old dot matrix printer, well done nonetheless

[@flangelouder]

Nice job

[@truthfilter]

you did a great job i love the ambient sound of the ship only thing i personally would change is remove all sounds from the computer startup sometimes less can be more i would have no sound on the text parts just only when the computer switches on maybe i don't know why but at the very start looking at the corridors with the low rumbling sound of the ship i was getting David Lynch vibes when movies are remastered these days into 4k and things i often think if they re'work the visuals why don't they re'work the audio too like you have done here sometimes sound is far more important than visuals for setting a mood

[@SR71ABCD]

The truth is in space there is no sound..... only vibrations.

[@ktuck222]

No one can hear you scream.

[@Skynet_the_AI]

alert - alert: A n x i e t y , A n x i o u s A l e r t

[@johnspence8141]

That’s not the original computer sound.

[@rs232killer]

Why does the CRT make sounds like a dot matrix printer when it displays text?

[@dougplace895]

I REALLY LOVE THE ORIGINAL SPACEJOCKEY!!!!!!

[@actstuntcam]

Really cool. Must have been a huge amount of work - thinking of playing around with sound when I start doing Bike reviews/ moto-vlogging. I'm thinking of recording all the commentary afterward and mixing it in with some recorded bike sounds (of the actual ride, but recorded to optimize the quality of the engine noise), Add a little performance to make it seem like I am physically working hard riding the bike and... Mainly thinking of doing this because I don't think I have a mike set-up that will manage wind noise adequately in the helmet. Bit more work, but might save me some money and result in a better quality vid.

[@nereanim]

As a pilot I can testify aerospace is adept at making things last and reuse. A Garmin 430 from 1998 is still "cutting edge" for most small aircrafts and reliable computers that can withstand radiations and wear and tear will have to also last decades if not centuries with no maintenance and will rely on tech that isn't flashy but does the job. Old MIGs still use tubes because they can work after an EMP blast from a nuclear warhead. Spaceships that will need to travel light years will need hardware that can work forever with cosmic radiation and with materials that also don't degrade with time. Consumer electronics are flimsy and brittle and fragile.

[@diogenes5118]

Back when Ridley Scott was firing on all cylinders

[@dkyelak]

Check out the Raised by Wolves trailer. Looks like he is still doing just that.

[@Cryptonymicus]

If not for HR Giger it might have been another fail.

[@urbannpa]

The studios didn't want to touch SiFi film making(even with after Star Wars). Then this movie came out and to me and a lot of other SiFi junkies set the standard for Alien encounter. They have tried repeating this formula but can't get it right because you know what's coming. The first time I saw it, it was the scariest (until the MIST) movie I had ever seen.

[@cph4]

a doodle on top of a masterpiece.. why?

[@andrewrobertson3894]

Nice work.

[@GeneralArmorus]

Filmakers circa 2020: howdydodad?

[@rjlchristie]

Dated by, amongst other things, the use of the sound of a dot matrix printer when text appears on a CRO screen, I always thought that was silly. Edit: I now see that someone else commented in similar vein at an earlier date.

[@KVSWF]

The movie is over 40 years old. What would you have suggested during production in 1978?

[@rjlchristie]

@@KVSWF It simply didn't need any sound effect. The scrolling was probably unnecessary too.

[@codetech5598]

The sound on the video is not the original sound from the movie. Note the title says "Re-Sound".

[@offengesagt3262]

The sound of that computer... damm... i know it... OMG i am old...

[@aepogee]

It's an awesome sound nevertheless buddy..hehe ☺

[@horseradishpower9947]

Interesting soundscape. It would be interesting to have thos in the film, to see if it makes a positive impact or not. A lot of the horror is built up through subliminal methods, and this includes the sound. Still, nicely done.