ALIEN Blew Abby's MIND 🤯 MOVIE REACTION and COMMENTARY | First Time Watching ! (1979)

[@RuntotheMovies]

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[@jasonjourdain3725]

Colombiana, Salt, Erin Brockovich, Monster just name a few and also # HAKUNA MATATA ❤❤❤

[@jessiechen279]

Well you said cocoon so "Cocoon" 1985 sci-fi 😉 Also, not girl-boss but "The Andromeda Strain" 1971 classic tense sci-fi. P.s. "Space above & beyond" it a great little known series from the 90's is worth checking out too 👍

[@MsAppassionata]

I’ve never seen you folks before. That is one beautifully colored cat! Nice review btw.

[@RuntotheMovies]

@@MsAppassionata thank you! Boo 😺 is the star of our show.

[@leroylowe5921]

Did you guys recognize Bilbo Baggins?

[@flyingardilla143]

The Abby.exe is not responding bit never gets old.

[@nEthing4Her]

LMAO loved that

[@chrispittman8854]

She's gonna kill someone with that. She's gonna do that. "Reactor A" is going to be eating "snacks." An insect is going to fly into Abby.Reacts.Com's "commentary port." Reactor* chokes to death on Skittle. News at 11. *Possibly multiple Reactor... zzz... and now we're talking class action.

[@chrispittman8854]

"Yep... That unobtanium ore space candle lighten' up is uh site tuh see. Cinnamon and gravy."

[@danieldickson8591]

The Run to the Movies crew has used that bit in other reactions.

[@kennethdavis3736]

The reason it is "raining" in the room where Brett meets the Alien is that it houses the landing gear which was covered with ice crystals after landing on the "deep cold" planetoid (as described by Ash). Once the Nostromo takes off again, the heat generated by the ship's life support cause the ice crystals to melt off the retracted landing gear generating dripping water in the process.

[@MetFanMac]

Fun fact! "Sigourney" is not her actual name. She was born Susan Alexandra Weaver and started using Sigourney (taken from a minor character in The Great Gatsby) as a stage name at age 14.

[@LenOliver-yz6os]

Damn!!! you beat me to it.😆🤨👍

[@creativeuserneim]

Wow this is how I found out I love learning fun little trivia like this from reading the comments on reaction videos😊

[@ChrisS-no3ft]

Thats really cool. Never knew that. I thought it was actually Sidney. I must have read wrong.

[@fahooga]

Her uncle was Doodles Weaver, the vaudeville comedian who worked a lot with Spike Jones.

[@jhilal2385]

Her father was president of the NBC TV network when she was a child.

[@robertmaez6706]

The actress who played Lambert, Veronica Cartwright, was in the horror film "The Birds" as a child. That's where she got her panic scream chops.

[@kevinburton3948]

18:53 First reactor EVER who is on Ash's side that the Baby Alien (Chestburster) could bleed acid and is still dangerous! Literally everyone else says, "NO MAN! WHAT THE HELL?! KILL IT!" In hindsight of course we know Ash was protecting it, but it totally makes sense that the blood could severely injure you and or wreck the ship.

[@DMichaelAtLarge]

I understood that to be the reason Ash made that warning. Seemed obvious to me.

[@toob1979]

When the _Nostromo_ self-destructs, the first explosion is the ship going up. The second is the ore refinery the _Nostromo_ was towing. That's why the second explosion is more powerful than the first. You must watch _Aliens._ It is in your contract or else you forfeit your shares. No other _Alien_ movies exist after _Aliens._

[@Paul_1971]

What about the 3rd 2001 Stargate style explosion?!

[@LukeLovesRose]

No matter what, those multiple nuclear explosions are SILLY AF

[@mikefarnsworth772]

That's the best explanation I've heard.

[@mattp6089]

I agree, although I wish they'd done Alien3 with different characters. Treat it as separate to the Ripley storyline entirely. Then I might actually like it. There is a really interesting movie gestating inside that pretty bad movie just itching to burst out. Alien Resurrection is... just awful.

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@mattp6089 Im sorry but Alien 3 is the worst movie in the whole franchise. I mean, i consider Covenant and Prometheus to be much better movies. Watching Alien 3 feels like drowning in sewage

[@kenpullig1652]

I have a vivid memory, to this day, of being in high school and going to see this movie alone. No one else was available. It was back in a great theater with a huge screen and the theater wasn't crowded but it was freezing. This movie scared the crap out of me. It is a great example of how to use lighting, pacing, sound, and expectation to create tension, which lead to a fear response. Gore isn't necessary.

[@danieldickson8591]

I saw this in the theater during its first run. I don't like scary movies, but my mother did and insisted we go to see it. I had never before felt so manipulated and abused. By the last fifteen minutes of the film, I was so emotionally exhausted I wouldn't have cared if the damn alien stepped off the screen and sat beside me. I kept thinking to myself, "Just eat the b!tch and let me go home." 😣

[@MsAppassionata]

“manipulated and abused…Just eat the b!tch and let me go home.” Poor baby! 😂😂😂😂

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

my grandparents were on a date & walked into the theater to see this & had no idea what it was about, & both said when ALIEN slowly fades in, they both knew this was going to be great

[@gumshoe2273]

Abby: "I love aliens. I love space. I'm so excited." We'll see Abby. We'll see.

[@leroylowe5921]

Abby.exe is not responding.

[@gospyro]

"So this was made 10 years after they went to the moon?" I had never thought of it that way either! Even at the time of seeing this in '79, I was 16, the first moon landing felt like 'a long time ago', not just ten years!! (at the time, even the last mission in 1972 felt like a long time ago!)

[@k.delpino1124]

About 45 years old. One of the most iconic films of it's era and genre. The great Ridley Scott's second film and first of his many masterpieces. This was Sigourney Weaver's second film, first role as an lead actress and one of her most iconic roles ever. 5 of the castmembers are no longer living. One of the writers called it, 'JAWS in space' and was deep in it's nightmarish nature. Truly pushing the boundaries of it's tones and the creativity within it's production. The creature was designed by the H.R. Giger from his bio-mechanical artwork known as Necronom IV. Theatrical cut or director's cut, the first installment is untouchable in it's presentation. Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects among so many awards it received. Earliest movie merchandise was a graphic novel, toys, calendars and Halloween costumes. Total major influence on sci-fi horror thrillers for years to come. The preceding films in the mainline series go up and down in terms of reception & box office. You got about 6 more films to go including Alien:Romulus (2024).

[@watchreadplayretro]

The horror face of Abby as the little Chestburster Xenomorph burst from 'Kane's stomach... followed by the 'awwww!' as it screeched a cute sound and sped off into the room LOL I'm not sure about others, but I have always owned Alien (and the rest) on either VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, BluRay over the years, but I swear I'm watching the movie more in the last year or so via different reactors (or with you guys, re-reactions with new people, always fun!) and wow it's something I would never have thought to be so fun if I'd been told this 10-20 years back! Can you imagine the surprise of an alien that tries to abduct Hannah when it sees she has a tattoo of it already on her arm! lol (I'm guessing it's a small simple tattoo of an alien face but maybe just the word or something) Wonderful reactions, thank you ladies, always so great!

[@SkullAngel002]

18:08 - "Oh no, he's going to like, cough up an alien out of his mouth" Us - "Uh...yeah"

[@Uncle_T]

Aliens is most definitely mandatory after watching Alien.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Yes, but watch the theatrical version first THEN watch the extended/director's cut to get some additional character info etc.

[@GDeNofa]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere yes I prefer the directors cut since it gives deeper context to Ripley and Newt’s losses.

[@kaizen5023]

😮😮😮 "Abby.exe has stopped responding." 😂❤

[@rromano158]

My guess is that "they" (the company) replaced the previous science officer with Ash because "they" somehow knew about the alien signal or knew about the aliens themselves and wanted to study them. That moisture falling down is from condensation.

[@richlisola1]

It’s doubtless that “they” The Company knew about the alien signal in advance, put Ash in place of the real Science Officer, and at least had some inkling that the alien was dangerous and powerful-But hey? Employees are fodder, profit is king, and laws are made for breaking. Am I right?

[@4Kandlez]

Um yeah, that's the story line of the movie

[@Calamity_Jack]

Yeah, after discovering and decoding the signal, the company replaced the originally-slated science officer with Ash. After Ripley discovered the true mission objective from Mother ("Insure return of organism for analysis"), Ash tried to kill her to prevent her from thwarting the company's plans.

[@danieldickson8591]

I always wondered if Ash took those actions willingly, or if he was just a slave to his programming.

[@Calamity_Jack]

@@danieldickson8591 Good question. Although I suspect the company could make their mandates his top priority if they wanted.

[@DavetheGrue]

The "chestburster" scene is the single most influential body-horror scene ever.

[@danielmillward9947]

Wait till you hear how the chestburster is going to happen in alien romulus

[@DanAxl-x9d]

​@@danielmillward9947how??? Spill the beans pleeease

[@danielmillward9947]

@@DanAxl-x9d apparently from the leakers that watched the test screening that gave us info the trailer confirmed, the Chinese character who gets face hugged gets her lower half ripped through as it literally "births" from her and this is what the actor said made everyone sick during reshoots 👍

[@DanAxl-x9d]

@@danielmillward9947 lower half as in between the legs?

[@LibrarianMichael]

It was recreated very nicely in Spaceballs.

[@MattSipka]

Props to realizing why Ash says “don’t touch it” without suspecting him. Make sure to watch the Special Edition of Aliens when you watch it, the theatrical release is just the special edition cut down.

[@GDeNofa]

Yes! That version is much better!

[@BouillaBased]

I like how you keep commenting on the effects. The oldies among us, who grew up in the world of practical effects, know how much better it is to build rather than render. CGI always looks cartoonish in comparison.

[@richlisola1]

CGI is still inferior to practical effects-At best CGI should be used to augment practical effects rather than take their place.

[@danieldickson8591]

It depends on the effect you want IMO. Animatronics, stop-motion, CGI, all have their place. One should blend them as needed.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Cgi is far superior to practical effects when the budget allows for it to be. The bad cgi you're referencing is from cheap cgi

[@cuoresportivo155]

@@richlisola1 yes augment some preactical evens, or do some stuff that can't be done in a practical way. But look at terminator 2, cgi can be done well

[@wolf310ii]

@@GeorgeTropicana Even with a huge budget and expensive CGI it can be pretty bad, especialty when the CGI is used to replace the story

[@Lethgar_Smith]

"This is 10 years after they went to the moon" Wow. You just made me realize how much the world changed in that 10 year time span. Pretty amazing when you think about it.

[@brucebieberly4166]

Less than 10 years actually from the last landing. (Dec 1972 to summer 1979). And the scenes of them walking towards the derelict ship we so eerily similar to live TV shots from Apollo 17, the final Apollo lunar landing.

[@richlisola1]

That the filmmakers had the intelligence, imagination, and knowledge of existing but new space flight, science, and technology, to write believable technical dialogue in 1979 is mind blowing. That they managed to portray a blue collar truckers in space vibe to the crew, with a script that seems unscripted is amazing. It makes sense too, nowadays astronauts are the best and the brightest, but once technology forwards and space travel becomes more common and commercialized, with more advanced spacecraft-It will make sense that regular people could crew, run, and steer a spaceship.

[@jamesfrench7299]

The world changed in the last five years of that decade the most.

[@danieldickson8591]

@@jamesfrench7299 Back then we really thought humanity was about to move out into space in a big way. So disappointing how that stalled.

[@robertmills8640]

Definitely Abby should watch Aliens on the channel. Great Reaction 👍👍👍

[@Chris_Marrero]

ROFLMAO!!! The alien glasses on Abby killed me. 🤣 As for movies that relate to this one...the biggest one would be Spaceballs. LOL

[@jamesfrench7299]

Early drafts of the xenomorph had eyes like that before they decided no visible eyes was more unsettling.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

There’s the facehugger episode of Rick and Morty that’s pretty lulz.

[@grendeltech]

Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal...

[@MrHws5mp]

Wait until you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey and realise that it was made two years _before_ they landed on the Moon... Fun fact time (and also, I'm too busy in the morning to deal with a facehugger as well): 1. 2001 and Alien were both made at Shepperton Studios about 10 years apart. When they built the sets for 2001, they needed some very complicated instructions for a zero-G lavatory, to make the point that space is a wierd place. in those days, you couldn't just self-print professional-looking stuff, you had to go to a company, so they went to Letraset, who made dry-transfer lettering. Unfortunately Letraset had a minimum order of 100 sheets, so they bought the 100 sheets, used about two of them on the 2001 set, and threw the other 98 in a storage room and forgot about them. Fast-forward 10 years and the Alien crew are building the sets on a limited budget. Scrounging around for anything they can get for free, they find the 98 Letraset sheets and decide to use them on the bridge set. So yeah, most of the official-looking stencilling on the Nostromo's bridge that you never see in close-up is actually zero-G toilet instructions...🤣 2. At the same time they were fliming Alien at Shepperton, the rock band The Who were shooting a live concert film on another sound stage. When there was nothing to do, the Alien crew would go over to the other stage and watch the show, and that's where they saw the lasers (very new thing in 1979) that they were using for some parts of the stage show. Ridley Scott liked the look of them, so he asked The Who's stage crew if he could borrow them: they're what's making the blue mist effect over the eggs in the alien egg-chamber scene.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Very cool! Another fun fact is that one idea that was briefly kicked around for the ending of the movie was that Ripley would be killed by the alien in some final confrontation, then the alien would climb into the captain's chair, put on the headset and then make a distress call....in Captain Dallas' voice. Weird, but it sure would have blown some minds. I'm glad they went the other direction though.

[@AW-yj6md]

Loved your reaction,..I swear, your jaw was dropped for most of the movie,..and not just for the horror, but for the shear artistry, the set, the design, and the breathtaking shots of the planets, the shots of the ship as it approached the planet, they were good, and just as impressive all these decades later, it truly is hard to believe how long ago this movie was made, great care and details, no detail too small to consider, the set was built fully, saw a doc, about it, yes do check those out, the corridors, ladders really leading to another level, all that,.they really shouldn't only have it in a museum, but at some theme park, where you can traverse the set yourself, I would so love that, even better if they had some hotel, where it was built like this, and you could spend a few nights, in the stasis chamber,..awesome,..do keep going, enjoy, Godspeed, Peace ✌

[@DanielRamosMilitaryWiz]

Abby is too innocent and lovable for words. Thank you again for doing these videos reacting to these amazing films. Your reactions on this channel are priceless! The face hugger appears to closely resemble an arachnid and a horseshoe crab. It’s a parasitic life form which serves only one purpose, to make contact with a living host to implant the Xenomorph (Alien) embryo. I read that Alien screenwriter, Dan O’Bannon, originally envisioned the design of the face hugger as something resembling an octopus possessing tentacles. Creature designer, H.R. Giger, created a design which O’Bannon found superior by replacing the tentacles with skeletal fingerlike appendages. For the face hugger dissection scene, Ridley Scott used pieces of fish and shellfish. (7:35) Believe it or not, the actors in this scene are actually Ridley Scott’s kids, Jake and Luke dressed in scaled down spacesuits. They are used in several scenes to create an illusion making the planet, the inside of the derelict ship, and the alien pilot appear even bigger. (22:20) If that was acid, wouldn’t it be corroding the metal of the ship? Also, the Alien’s acidic blood is a yellowish green color. No Abby, the Alien is not invisible (24:57), it’s just a sneaky SOB. It’s like trying to catch a rat, cockroach, or snake that keeps crawling around. As for the destruction of the Nostromo at (35:20), the most logical explanation for the multiple explosions could be the ship, its cargo, and its reactors exploding. Now you ladies definitely have to watch Aliens (1986). It’s right up there with Terminator 2, especially since it’s directed by James Cameron. I love both the theatrical version and the special addition, but I prefer the special addition. It makes the movie a little longer, but I think it’s worth it because adds more depth to the characters and story.

[@michaelbriefs9764]

Ladies, Veronica Cartwright's character, Lambert, is not supposed to be "annoying" or "erratic". She is every audience member! She is as scared as we were when we first saw this film in the theaters, which I did! She is the freaked-out member of the team that everyone who isn't soul-dead, like Ash, can relate to because she's as scared as we would be if we found ourselves in her situation. So, trust me, she is a very important character and she's a fantastic actress (see her in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and in "The Witches of Eastwick")! By the way, in the sequel to this film, "Aliens", Bill Paxton plays that "everyone of us"-character.

[@danieldickson8591]

Veronica's sister, Angela Cartwright, is also an actress.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Meh, Paxton played a scared character but unlike most of you he had the courage and the balls to step up when he needed to

[@michaelbriefs9764]

@@GeorgeTropicana “most of you”? Don’t you mean most of us?

[@GeorgeTropicana]

@@michaelbriefs9764 try harder next time, virgin

[@themorn2112]

She was also the mother in the movie "Flight of the Navigator". I also posted that the Lambert character is transgendered. His/her stats is shown on the background in the debriefing room in the sequel movie.

[@jamesday1295]

'Do you think those walls are padded incase of space chaos?' Never heard that one, and I've digested a lot. 😂

[@archangel0891]

During the run of Alien3, 20th Century Fox had an interactive experience called Alien War. They set up inside abandoned buildings where they made the set and you in a group basically taken around a colony with a colonial marine getting chased by xenomorphs in the dark. It was sh*t pants scary. It eventually stopped as folks were running away into walls and sh*ttin themselves running away leaving their kids behind. Fox feared a lawsuit so they canned it. I did it twice here in Scotland and wish it would comeback. There is videos on youtube about Alien War

[@RuntotheMovies]

Producer's note: that sounds phenomenal!

[@timboxall8936]

Every time you guys meowed or called "Jonesy" my cat kept poking his head up - guess what his name is, lol! 😂 Great reaction as ever - Abby, you're the funniest and prettiest reactor out there (plus abby.exe makes me laugh every single time 😂

[@abbyygross]

😂😂 thank you ❤

[@kaizen5023]

My cat likes watching Boo on the screen, but thankfully she knows Boo is a TV cat otherwise she'd hiss 😂

[@kevb044]

Veronica Cartwright, who plays Lambert, thought she had initially been hired to play Ripley and was rather upset to find out she was actually cast as Lambert because she didn't like the character either. It was only when it was explained to her by Scott that Lambert was meant to be a reflection of the audience's fears and anxiety that she warmed to the role. The character's death went through various different changes throughout the production and the one we "see" was actually fabricated during editing. The legs we see with the tail going between them were not Lambert's but actually a shot of Bretts that were not used during his death scene. That, combined with the strange screams and the quick glimpse of her naked legs hanging during the shot where Ripley finds her and Parker lead the audience to a certain conclusion

[@NigelShepherd-z7k]

Is she the same actress who was the young girl in "The Birds"? Face looks very familiar 🤔🇬🇧

[@kevb044]

@@NigelShepherd-z7k yup, and she was also in the '78 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers..plus quite a few other well known films

[@steveg5933]

Also if you're old enough to remember Lost in Space. The Oh God heard dueing the chest bursting scene was her actual reaction. The cast (except for John Hurt) weren't told what was going to happen.

[@kevb044]

Well, that's a slight bending of the truth. The cast have all said they knew about the scene, they just didn't know that there was going to be blood gushing everywhere, hence Veronica's true reaction to taking a full spray of blood to the face. ​In fact the quick cut of her getting splashed is cut just short of her falling over backwards over one of the chairs on set @@steveg5933

[@bwiedor]

Close, but it was actually her younger sister Angela Cartwright who was in Lost in Space. But Veronica (Lambert) was indeed in The Birds.

[@peloquin5652]

Cool reaction, girls! Yes, Jerry Goldsmith's scores were in a class of their own.

[@RuntotheMovies]

Thanks for watching with us!

[@reesebn38]

I saw Alien in the theatre when I was 14 and fell in love with Sigourney. Please when you watch Aliens watch the Special Edition. It makes it the perfect Sci-Fi movie. It's funny nowadays Hollywood and others aways saying you need more strong women in the movies. Yet to me it seems the 70s and 80s had the strongest, smartest, lead the way Women. Lead by Sigourney Weaver who is the greatest actress of all time. She is kick-ass in Alien/Aliens, funny as hell in Ghostbusters & Galaxy Quest, kills drama like in Gorilla's in the Mist, super sexy in The Year of Living Dangerously and Eyewitness. Then of course there was Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Kathleen Turner, Gena Davis, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Michelle Pfeither, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jamie Lee Curtis, Meg Ryan, Kelly McGillis.

[@Paul_1971]

Totally agree - it was always there without rubbing your face in it!

[@Cain353]

You forgot Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor. Especially T2's Sarah Connor is such a badass.

[@reesebn38]

I knew I was forgetting someone.@@Cain353

[@seancromwell327]

I saw ALIEN in a movie theater when I was 14 and fell in love with John Hurt

[@robertanderson6929]

A piece of trivia about the Alien. It is only on screen for 4 minutes. Despite the costume being extremely detailed it was difficult to disguise it as being a man in a suit. The infamous "Jazz Hands" scene is often sited as one of the worst example of this. As a result, you don't actually see the big Alien kill anyone. For example, when Brett is killed the camera is actually focused on Jonesy's eyes. Brett's horrific death is all in the imagination of the audience. When Lambert and Parker are slain the camera is focused on Ripley running though he corridors and you only hear the Alien cackling. And the actually attack on Dallas is not shown at all. Only Kane's death on the table is actually on film and he dies from the juvenile version not the larger one.

[@karlmoles6530]

I had the best moviegoing experience of my life to this film. Summer of 1979, Summer Vacation. I was 13. My best friend 12, his sister I had a mutual crush on a younger 12. Their mother took all three of us to see Alien on a Saturday afternoon. Me and Ron (My best friend) were sci fi fanatics Val (His sister) was a Horror hound. See, I had been raised sheltered by Christian parents. This was the first R-Rated film I ever saw. I was wholly unprepared. Val put her hand in mine almost as soon as the credits started. The film had a chilling vibe on you from the start. By the time they got to the derelict spaceship I had the biggest pit of dread in my stomach. Val squeaked and buried her face in my neck during the facehugger scene. I had never been intimately close with a member of the opposite sex before. The combination of her presence making me uncomfortable in a good way and the horror on the screen was quite jarring. Well, the chestburster scene came Such wild audience reactions, screaming, gagging, running up the aisle, sheer pandemonium. And Valerie literally crawled into my lap. With her mom sitting right there. I didn't dare move my hands though I badly wanted to. She was crying into my neck. Feeling her warm body that close was making me feel all kinds of things, but on screen it just kept getting scarier and more deeply horrifying. I didn't know what Horror was. Val cried my collar damp. I eventually did get bolder and out an arm loosely around her, she nuzzled against me harder when I did. The came for me the worst scene of the film. Parker and Lambert's deaths. I thought Parker was going to be the big hero. Wrong. After the flight and explosion sequence the audience started to relax a little, the famous Ripley in her underwear scene came and Valerie raised up a little and whispered into my ear. "I look a lot better in those" She said. I about choked. What an experience that all was.

[@danieldickson8591]

That was a whole lot of "firsts" for you. I can appreciate why it's a memorable experience. BTW how did things turn out with you and Val?

[@karlmoles6530]

@@danieldickson8591 I usually hung out with my best friend and her during Summer vacations cause my family had moved away, and I didn't have any real friends where we'd moved. A couple years later when we were 15 and 16 she was moving some furniture around in her room very late on a Saturday night, everyone else was asleep, I was playing video games. She called out for help. I got up and went in there and she was holding a shelf up, in undies and a t shirt. I helped her push it back, she looked me in the eyes, the bed was right there, well one thing led to another. She was my second.

[@MatthewBluefox]

The baby alien "meowed" kinda ... so it was cute to me. :)

[@MunkyKungFu]

One thing they used for dissecting the face hugger scene, was oysters

[@CSB3747]

The alien and derelict ship were designed by HR Giger. His paintings, sculptures and furniture are something to see. He painted the album cover for Emerson, Lake and Palmer "Brain Salad Surgery".

[@erickent3557]

Back in the day, when only rumors existed of a sequel, we too speculated about Jonesy being infected!

[@kevinburton3948]

Literally! When Starlog interviewed James Cameron in 1986 about his upcoming sequel, his final comment was something like- "And it's not in the damn cat! I'm not *that* cruel!"

[@EnglishRalph]

An octopus? A space octopus? A Spocktopus!

[@danieldickson8591]

Part octopus, part spider, and when you look at it from the side, part ball sack. 🤮

[@valvegeek]

There is a 2 hour documentary on YT about how the movie was made, 'The Beast Within - The Making Of Alien'. Very interesting!

[@xaxuelx7987]

Brett was under the landing claw and the water was condensation from the claw being exposed to the cold of the planet for hours... so it rained in the ship... and it likely occurred every-time they landed as he had no compunction letting it pelt him.

[@lestatdelc]

The "rain" in the scene where Brett gets killed is due to that being the bay where the landing legs of the ship retract into, so all the moisture and condenstaion from when the were on the planet was dripping down from the landing gear onto the gear bay floor.

[@riveraharper8166]

Watching the Alien movie with a Cat! Perfection! :)

[@Onz70]

It's like the Australian version. As an Aussie 😂😂 Love it Abby

[@coot1925]

I worked at an indoor paintball/ laser tag place years ago. They purchased some of the set from Alien from shepperton studios, just outside London, it was the inside of the alien ship. I hated going in there on my own at the end of the day to check the equipment. Freaked the crap out me. ✌❤🇬🇧

[@andrewsawyer1375]

The suspense is great. Love the glasses, girl. Other sci-fi movies I recommend, Forbidden Planet, Aliens, Prometheus is actually a prequel to Alien. Also, Pandorum is a good watch.

[@15blackshirt]

Director Ridley Scott followed this up with the sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Besides the film sequels, there's a videogame sequel titled Alien: Isolation. The actress playing Lambert, Veronica Cartwright, preceded this with Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Besides the Alien films, Sigourney Weaver is also in the Ghostbusters films

[@LuminairPrime]

Holy shit, Hannah is out here casually reacting to the same movie multiple times just to wingwoman her friends on the channel??? Find yourself someone who loves you like Hannah loves Running to the Movies!!! 🤩🤩🤩 HAKUNA MATATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RuntotheMovies]

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[@rjd1736]

Pretty sure Abby's thoughts on the movie were......" OH MY GOD " !!!......She's Adorable

[@JayM409]

I missed the initial release because I was working in the middle of nowhere. I first watched it a year later in a bar in Prince George in 1980. This, and The Thing are two of my favourite movies to this day.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

HOLY FUCK Abby you are the FIRST reactor I've seen have the common sense to know why Ash said not to kill the chest burster because of the acid blood. NO ONE else ever gets that! FINALLY someone with brains!

[@lauriebarrett6789]

Veronica Cartwright who played Lambert was in the movie "The Birds" a 1963 Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic which i'd recommend checking out. She was also in Scary Movie 2.

[@AubreySciFi]

It's such a classic. The second one is an amazing sequel as well. This one is more of a sci-fi horror piece, and the second is an action sci-fi.

[@NestorCaster]

22:25 I think the it’s condensation from one of the ships cooling units/systems… but I could be wrong-- I remember it being said in an interview years ago

[@TrentRushton]

You got it right they special effects used a lot of organs from a butcher shop or sea food, the face hugger I believe they used some raw oyster or clams to place them inside the puppet.

[@fakereality96]

Nah. Abby gon love Aliens (Part 2).

[@GGGritzer]

Yeah, it's nearly as good as this................

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

Excellent job young ladies! Abby frozen with mouth open LOL I saw this movie 🎥 in 1979 at 14 years old it derailed me!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

During the development of the script, the studio kept giving their input. All of the studio's ideas were rejected by the writers....except one: To make Ash an android. I remember being blown away by that fact seeing this in the theater for the first time. It also explains his odd behavior in some of the earlier scenes. The final 10 minutes of this movie, from setting the self-destruct sequence to the credits, are some of the best 10 minutes in cinema history. The attention to detail is incredible.

[@richlisola1]

That the filmmakers had the intelligence, imagination, and knowledge of existing but new space flight, science, and technology, to write believable technical dialogue in 1979 is mind blowing. That they managed to portray a blue collar truckers in space vibe to the crew, with a script that seems unscripted is amazing. It makes sense too, nowadays astronauts are the best and the brightest, but once technology forwards and space travel becomes more common and commercialized, with more advanced spacecraft-It’ll make sense that regular people could crew, run, and helm a spaceship.

[@MrUndersolo]

Another fun fact: Ms. Weaver went to the wrong hotel for her audition, and had to run across town to go to the right one. She was very late, but Ridley Scott said that the moment she walked in, he had found his Ripley!

[@davidryall-flanders6353]

As others have said, gotta hand it to the sfx people. Set designers and builders, model makers, matte painters, etc. Practical effects were an art in themselves. I remember buying the sci-fi and fx magazines (no internet back then) to see the latest crazy stuff that was coming up in future films. It was a magical time.

[@danieldickson8591]

There is an extended version of this film with an extra scene which reveals what happened to Kane and Dallas.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox8184]

And now do you understant spaceballs, where John Hurt says "No, not again" Same actor here :D

[@kevinburton3948]

When the film premiered in London, during the scene where Brett is looking for Jonesy and saying "Here kitty kitty kitty!"... An audience member blurted out " *HOLY SHIT!* " stood up and rushed up the isle to the exit with his eyes shut tight and his hands slammed over his ears. This movie absolutely *terrified* audiences back in the day!

[@seansteyer8851]

Love this film! My dad took me to the theater to see it when I was 9. I was scared to death, but I loved it. Sadly Yophet Kotto, who played Parker, died in 2022.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Great movie! Saw at the drive in ! Thanks Y’all!

[@joerenaud8292]

There was a model kit of the alien face hugger and it was a 1 to 1 life size kit made of soft vinyl plastic that was quite well made but I don't know if you can still find it available today for sale today, perhaps on ebay. I had one until someone had stolen if from me, and back then it cost me 150 dollars American.

[@RuntotheMovies]

Wow! So sad that it got stolen. Sounds amazing.

[@dannyropero4216]

Cool reaction!! The special effects for the inside of alien eggs was raw haggis, basically sheep guts and innards. For the face hugger guts, Ridley Scott used a collection of raw seafood....clams, oysters, etc.. I was in 1st grade when this movie came out and I remembered hearing wild rumors about "that scary space monster movie". The art direction and creature development was done by HR Giger, a surreal horror artist who chronically suffered from night terrors.

[@ChrisS-no3ft]

You HAVE to watch Aliens next! I mean right away! Pleeeeaaassee. I cant wait! Lol.

[@danieldickson8591]

When they're examining the face-hugger corpse, the underside of it was made up of shucked clams artfully arranged.

[@michaelwatson266]

Oh boy. The face huggers are going to get them 😱🤣😂

[@knowthispodcast9182]

Oh my, Hannah is absolutely beautiful! 🥰 Got butterflies 🦋 right now lol. Also great review and reaction video. I absolutely love the alien films. I can't wait for the aliens 4K physical release. I have a good feeling that alien Romulus is going to be good, Looks really good compared to the mess that covenant was. Prometheus could have been good but they marketed the movie as an alien film and it was more like a discovery with about 10 minutes of horror. but the effects were pretty nice, but the thing that always bugged me about the later alien films is that even though they were supposed to take place before alien and aliens, The technology that they used looks so clean. It wasn't that haunted spaceship look where they had the industrial pipes and used hardware all over the place. That ship was cleaner than a surgical room. It kind of took me out of the universe, but I enjoyed all of them. Alien resurrection, That was just a cash I think.

[@atlancon]

Since Abby is such a space and spacesuit fan, you should reach out to Adam Savage on his tested KZbin channel, he is also a space fan and movie prop fan and has several replica suits ...even some alien stuff, I bet we could get you guys into a suit that way.

[@fahooga]

There are 2 bars in Switzerland designed by HR Giger whose art inspired this movie. In the 90s, there was a walkthrough experience based on the sequel in London and Glasgow.

[@shep4life]

One of the iconic scenes ever

[@kevinburton3948]

2:04 A friend of mine named his girl "Ellie" as in "Ellen Ripley."

[@craigmccuistian]

I want Hannah and Toy to show Abby the Firefly series and Serenity! :) come on guys, like this.

[@simongeoghegan9842]

The relic is a good creature movie set in a museum in America and worth your time.Thanks for reacting to this classic guy's.💓👍🇬🇧

[@maxvonsydow6180]

Nice reaction girls ! 🎬👍🙂 ... about the rain inside the ship: probably condensed water ( outside about -270°C vs 20°C inside ) . Next: "Aliens"- Special Edition (1986) 🙂

[@miamivicefanatic9736]

When Abby said she would like to visit something like the Nostromo, I was thinking about Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, which unfortunately closed in 2008. I'll bet Abby would have loved it. Abby, it was a tourist attraction where customers were transported onto the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Apparently, it closed due to declining admissions and failed negotiations between the attraction owner and the casino property that housed it.

[@wulf76]

lambert the one erratic female was also in the original alfred hitchcock movie the birds

[@shep4life]

Masterpiece at the slow burn. Showing not telling

[@BlunderMunchkin]

After you're done with Aliens, a great follow-up movie is Galaxy Quest, also starring Sigourney Weaver.

[@rickbadessa4897]

I think I read a long time ago they used raw oysters for the underbelly of the facehugger

[@tomstanziola1982]

Abby, you have to watch "Aliens" next! It's required viewing! It was directed by James Cameron, and it's even better than the original! Watch the Special Edition, cuz it has more character development than the theatrical version. ❤

[@willwhitman7534]

Another great movie I believe you would enjoy based upon your reaction here is The Abyss which came our shortly after this one. Another wonderfully done movie for its time that still holds up really well, great script, cast, and an amazing set design with great film work.

[@Minion_of_Cthulhu]

Awesome reaction! Now on to Aliens! Since Abby likes aliens, she'd probably really enjoy Arrival (2016) with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner which deals with a first contact scenario in a really clever way. Hannah would probably like it as well as it deals with some interesting philosophical ideas.

[@xenialafleur]

The first 4 movies all have a different feel to them.

[@ldycemnn]

Was I supposed to mention that you can buy a "Facehugger" mask?

[@mafrank1natural]

Great reaction! Yes the practical effects and use of models is much better than anything today over the last 10 to 20 years. back in the '70s and '80s and some of the '90s they used a lot of different angles with miniatures and looked more real if it's done right. when I see a movie today with CGI some of it looks so fake I feel like I'm watching a video game...lol

[@christopheryochum3602]

It's hilarious how you always put a Windows dialog box on the screen when Abby's gobsmacked. First time that happened, I thought my computer stopped. :)

[@MrDrako2012]

I know that when the eggs first open, the insides are made of chicken cutlets, per the FX team

[@gawainethefirst]

“Check please!” 18:15

[@kevinburton3948]

HELLO MY BABY! HELLO MY HONEY!

[@flnthrn2]

That darn cat was totally working with the Alien. 🖤🖤😎😎🖤🖤

[@robertcartier5088]

The interior rain... I suspect that Brett is under part of the ship that has just returned from the planet... the stormy weather in the atmosphere, as the ship was ascending into space, would have frozen onto the hull... Now that the ship has rejoined to the warmth of the larger ore processing plant, that moisture is returning to liquid form and falling like rain. I can only assume that he felt he was back on Earth for just a second, and relished in letting it wash the sweat from his face.

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

I liked the part where Ashe's head was hanging from his neck with wires sticking out and his body was still spinning around and Abby still thinking he was human 👽

[@anthonygibbs-gv7qp]

Awesome looking forward to abbeys reaction and the sequel aliens ❤

[@abbyygross]

get ready!!!

[@thefearhawk8805]

@@abbyygrossok...it may be weird, but I think about it every time I see your face. Have you ever been told that you look like you could be Brad Dourifs daughter? Its uncanny I just had to get this out of my system. Have a nice weekend and dont forget to keep watching the movies...✌

[@EdmontonRealEstate01]

Another amazing movie you two might consider reacting to is “The Abyss.” I think you two would love it.

[@ulfgard4734]

In case anyone is looking for the term used to describe the aesthetic style of the film set, it's cassette futurism!