This is how trailers should be made today. It doesn't show too much, it doesn't spoil the movie, and it get people interested. Damn, its one unsettling trailer.
Yeah, but it wouldn't sell on audiences of today, unfortunately. They would be too unsettled and say, "I don't want to see that. I have no idea what's going on."
That was kind of the point of the trailer, though. To make you curious, so that you would pay to find out what the movie is about, to find out what's going on.
Audiences today DO NOT want to find out what's going on. They want the same story over and over again. They want to feel SAFE. They want to be in a FAMILIAR place. Show the whole movie and then MAYBE they'll go see it.
In my opinion this is and always will be one of the best trailers of all time, it creeps you the hell out, but does not spoil plot points and doesn't waste time with dialogue to 'explain' the movie. Lots of trailers at this time were horrendous with cheesy voice overs, and today we get too much repetition with the inception horns and fade to black with a big bwaaaah and explosion, in other words great trailers have always been pretty rare.
The way it goes from low droning to sirens to chaos and screaming for 10 seconds only for it to abruptly cut out with the shot of the tiny ship and the tagline is so damn good. Hell of a trailer.
Facts! Just this trailer alone creeps you out and makes you uncomfortable, but at the same time, it makes you want to see it just to know what the hell is going on.
I love the fact that they don't reveal the Alien and yet it still manages to creep you out. Ingenious. It's the fear of the unknown that this movie employs so well. This is my favorite horror movie ever.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 because the actor was so tall and there is a lot of smart camera angle use you cannot see it's a suit. it beats any CGI
@@jondoe2715 When the alien is getting blasted away from the ship by Ripley it looks a little too human and you can tell it is a guy in a suit but for most of the deaths you can’t tell
RIP the cast members of Alien Helen Horton (November 21, 1923 - September 28, 2007), aged 83 Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 - September 15, 2017), aged 91 Sir Ian Holm (September 12, 1931 - June 19, 2020), aged 88 Yaphet Kotto (November 15, 1939 - March 15, 2021), aged 81 Sir John Hurt (January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017), aged 77 Bolaji Badejo (August 23, 1953 - December 22, 1992), aged 39 You will be remembered as legends.
"In space, no one can here you scream" is the single most genious tag line anyone has come up with in cinema. Not only are you alone, miles upon miles upon miles away from earth, you're trapped. No one knows you're in danger, nor is anyone coming to help you.
And you don't know if there will be any return. There's remains everywhere and something with HYPERINTELLEGENCE IS HUNTING YOU AND KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE. If you come back alive, you'll most likely be traumatized beyond belief. 'whoop-dee-doodly-doo, slipped on a space puddle of OH MAY GAWD THAT'S JIMMY- what is that. Why is it here OH GOD ITS LOOKING AT ME-' and also 'huh, everybody's gone. oooooh so THAT'S what that red stuff was. huh. Eh, i'll be-' *VICIOUS MURDER SOUNDS* so uh not that universe please :3
Crazy how much this trailer holds up. 35+ years old and it still feels very modern. I've seen Alien 100 times and this makes me want to see it for the 101st time.
My wife can't understand how i can keep rewatching alien and i always tell her that feeling of awe and suspense is always the same. Truly a masterpiece
The trailer itself is a perfect match with the tag line: in space no one can hear you scream - after all the chaos in the trailer, everything returns to silence when it pans out to looking at the ship from far distance and when the tag line emerges... The comparison between what happens on the ship versus when you look at the ship from a distance on the outside is so ingenious. The atmosphere of helplessness is so haunting.... why can't today's trailers be this perfectly orchestrated? Today we have become too concentrated on the competition of box office, we've forgotten what a movie is really about...
This is me a couple of weeks ago when the new Star Wars trailer came out: "That's the best trailer since Alien in 1979 - I AM DEFINITELY WATCHING THIS MOVIE!" The new Star Wars trailer doesn't give away the plot, shows glimpses of awesome stuff, and ends with a possible alliance between Rey and Kylo Ren, and poor Luke Skywalker looking on helpless. No commentary, just awesomely appetising shots! Learn much have they - yes, much they have learned. :) [that's my impression of Yoda]
This trailer and the movie will go down as one of the greatest of all time. All other modern horror movies don't carry that same sense of scare factor in the way that Alien does. I can watch this 2 min trailer, and I would feel more satisfied than any modern horror movie in the theaters. The beauty of this trailer lies in that there's no dialogue, and thus no spoilers. The only thing that separates you from the footage is the creepy af music. Oh, and by the way, Alien >>>> Aliens.
The Shining and Alien are two perfect examples of amazing trailers. Both had creepy music that made your stomach cringe, they didn't spoil the movie by showing barely or any images, and they both left you dazed and confused.
Even the title alone "Alien" leaves much for people to ponder. What does the Alien look like? Is it just one or are there more of them? Who are these people and how would they ever come in contact with this alien? Trailers today are garbage and don't leave anything to the imagination. Here there is no dialogue, no "witty" jokes, and no spoiling what the movie is actually about. I like it when writers/directors are ballsy enough to let the audience think for themselves and ask questions/be confused.
Yes! Perfect corrollary! The Shining trailer scared the hell out of the audience with nothing more than an image of elevator doors opening and pouring blood all over the floor of a hotel lobby.
@@israelarellano8335 yep, and "Alien: Covenant" pretty much proves this. while "Prometheus" was an alright film, I feel that we didn't need an Alien prequel, because it would spoil the mystery of the Space Jockey from the original 1979 film
Damn! If my parents would have seen that trailer, they never would have let me go see that movie when I was 12! So glad I got to see that in the theaters in 1979!! As a 12 year-old, it scared THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
I think I was 13 or 14. They showed it on TV in the UK. Everyone was out. I turned all the lights off. I sat two feet from the screen. It scared me to death! But I loved it! Even the very distinctive sounds of the two fire alarms on the Nostromo can put me into a panic if I'm being honest.
It was rated 15 yo in my country back in the time. Me and my buddy were 13 and tried to get in. I got my ticket, but my friend (who was way shorter than me back then, but ironically grew really tall just a couple of years later) got asked for an ID. So that was it. Had to watch it on VHS a couple of years later.
42 years old, and still one of the most effective trailers I’ve ever seen. Notice they tell you nothing whatsoever about the plot, but show only snippets from the film with the siren blaring in the background. This is how you make a trailer.
I love this movie, and this is the first time I’m watching this. The genius of no dialogue with just the creepy music followed by that iconic tagline is just perfection.
A pretty much perfect trailer. Creates so much tension while revealing just the bare bones of the story. And it's terrifying. Also one of the most memorable tag lines in cinema history too. And if all that wasn't enough, the film is superb too.
Still far and away one of the best trailers ever made. Concise, taut, tense, claustrophobic: it sums up the film. No voiceover, just fearful voice. Brilliant sound design. Seeing an Alien Double Bill next week in Brighton and cannot wait.
This movie is so awesome, the texture of everything in the film and how everything looks so humid it just puts you right in there. Brilliant filmmaking.
Ridley's background in art direction and advertising is evident throughout...tight, almost claustrophobic editing and visual narrative condense this to one of the greatest film teasers of all time...a work of cinematic art worthy of an award itself...and never surpassed...
This trailer scared the hell outta me when I was a little kid thanks to the Disney movie ride. Watched Alien when I was... 12? Not as scared as I thought I would be. Definitely my favorite horror movie next to The Thing 1982.
Omg, I had the same experience as you, just seeing the trailer gave me nightmares for the rest of my childhood, the funny thing is that I never actually watched the movie 😅
That siren sound is absolutely terrifying . They used it again in the Prometheus trailers and it’s amazing still to the modern day it worked extremely well
This is probably the scariest movie trailer I have ever seen. Admittedly the movie isn't quite this scary, but it's a damn good film. In fact, it's incredible.
I've seen the film a few times, and it's a masterpiece and I still jump in places, however, I have never seen this trailer before, OMFG it's not that it scares me it unnerves me like makes me feel very uneasy, I think it's the sirens and hearing no one talking in it, it's pure genius
Here I am in 2024 still looking to this trailer as what films should be doing. Finding it hard to find a trailer today that hides so much and still gets you pumped to watch the film.
The camera work was so exceptional in this movie 1:17 HOW DID THEY MAKE THAT SHOT LOOK SO FUCKING GOOD!? It's so moody and the lighting is absolute perfection throughout(Can't stress enough how good the shadows look). You don't get to see this level of artistry or professionalism or confidence in one's own work very often. I mean the balls they had to have ZERO dialogue, mostly devoid of sound effects that would be relateable or expected to the human ears. *This is art.*
The perfect trailer! I've watched it a zillion times, and it never gets old. This is how they should all be done. Tease you without telling you anything or everything.
This is perhaps the best trailer ever made. And the atonal soundscape (rather than music) could easily play at the end credits of an intense horror movie.
Now imagine you are in a theater in 1978/79, waiting for the show you wanted to see to start and this trailer comes on, in the pitch black, on a huge screen with surround speakers blasting that unnerving soundtrack around you!
@@Gameboy-Unboxings They didn't, according to how the production went they got the cat to hiss by having a large dog hidden from it off screen during the shot then when they needed it to hiss pulled back a curtain separating them, the cat did hiss and look angry so it worked.
Watching this now, for the first time in years. The acting, the actors, are superior, compared with today's such types. It's what made the movie work, is that the characters acted so 'every day'. Back then, most actors actually had stage or theater or Broadway experience, is what made them so dern good and believable.
It really disappoints me how modern day horror is just blood and guts and jump scares. There is almost no psychological horror in modern horror meaning the modern generation doesn't appreciate the psychological horror of alien as if they don'ts see it in the first ten seconds then they would call it boring. THis is why it was so successful in 1979 because it had never really been seen before in that way meaning audiences were shocked
I'm 13, yet Alien is my favorite franchise! Your right about modern horror though. I've always been called "Out-Of-Date" at my school. I've always been more 70's & 80's than modern. But this movie's amazing! While I like Aliens better, Alien was an amazing film nonetheless!
This was considered to be one of the greatest trailers ever made. Glimpses of terrifying scenes with an added introverted heart beating in the background to add that familiar sense of undying horror that hid just around a corner to scare you to death. Although just over a minute in length the trailer helped captivate, as well as gripped a person's self awareness of his or her surroundings. Alien is the pinnacle of movie making with built sets, gritty shots, and more than life actors who shaped, and defined its message to how dangerous space can really be. Just like the tagline pitch said before, "In space no one can hear you scream." Ridley Scott will go down as one of the best realistic directors of all time. Not because of realism in his sequences but how his actors portray and deliver their lines with seething and often raw emotional outbursts. Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, or even Black Hawk Down right up to todays Alien continuations. Hopefully the new Blade Runner sequel movie will prove entertaining like it did when the first part was shown in 1984.
This film and its trailer are now more than 40 years old. The point of a trailer is to get people to come and see the film. I don’t care who you are or where you are from…when you watch this trailer, there is an undeniable pull to see…this…film. And yet…the plot and the epic moments are all preserved. We have seen many other fine films come and go across many, many genres and nowadays, the trailer has become an afterthought. We have the internet now to “tell” us if a film is “worth” seeing…
This trailer has more atmosphere than entire movies. I didn't need any more reason to consider Alien one of the best sci-fi and/or horror films ever made, but then I stumbled on the trailer. Amazing.
This is THE definitive trailer to ever spawn in theatres, the best bar none! I do wish trailers today (although the Godzilla trailer was great) would give you this sense of hype without having to show the main subject, just have it enough to keep you guessing and get suspense. And this trailer came out in 1979! And, of course, Alien is among one of my favorite science fiction films and one of my favorite films period. By the way, this is my one hundredth or so view of this beautiful sneak peek.
You said it all right there. This should be the blueprint for what trailers should be. Just the right amount of suspense and great editing without giving away any plot lines.
rawrvintageisclassic speaking of Godzilla the one from 1998 when Godzilla lays eggs the eggs look identical to the one in alien and when I see the cover of the movie I always thought that the alien was gonna be some type of reptile alien creature
Ladies and gentlemen, the best horror movie trailer since the "Psycho" trailer! The threat itself is never shown on camera, but the reactions from the crew and the horrific sound design play up the imagination until we actually see the movie ourselves! This is exactly how a horror movie trailer should be! And the tagline at the end of it gives me chills every time!!
my fave film trailer ever. implies how scary the film will be, without revealing too much, never even showing the alien. and the sound is akin to a magma or popol vuh track. really, it's perfect.
I love how throughout most of the film ripley isn’t the main character and only in the ending they did that well because there wasn’t really a main one in this film it all depended on who survived the most
Exactly! It's just like the original Evil Dead. Ash doesn't even become the icon we know and love today until the second film, so it comes as a total surprise when he's the one that survives in the end!
The scariest part about the trailer for me is that you don't even see what is causing all the horror. The closest thing is an average looking egg (which looks nothing like the hideous final version we saw in the actual film) which hints of something being born, some vaguely organic like matter, and several cuts of panicking and frightened people; no indication of context to the scenes are given, no dialogue, no way of telling who will live or die by what means. Even the series' most iconic death is teased here by cutting away before we even see what is truly happening. This kind of trailer not only interests the audience, but also makes sure that they are not at all prepared for what they will see when they actually watch the film. To me, this is the perfect way to advertise a new horror movie.
I know the phrase “real horror is what you don’t see” has been used time and time again, but this trailer alone-to say nothing of the final film-just stands as a shining reminder that it bears repeating. Real horror is what you *don’t* see. That’s why Alien is a cinematic masterpiece of a horror film; even when “nothing” is happening, the movie is still absolutely chilling. The Space Jockey is the perfect example of this.
Just showed this trailer to a friend and now she wants to see the movie (she is not a fan of horror movies). This is just an example of how this trailer will always be great enough to stand the test of time.
It blows my mind on how so far ahead of it’s time this trailer truly is, it holds up so remarkably well to this day and looks so phenomenally well and truly timeless. This is so unbelievably tension grabbing and scary even to this day! This really is the definition of a timeless classic, the movie AND the trailer! Masterpiece on all fronts.
The great thing about Alien was that you were actually drawn into the horror of the film. It was if you were there with the crew walking through the corridors of the Nostromo!
This movie terrified me so much, I didn't even want to watch anything space related for about 2 years. I also cant wait for Alien Isolation, the game based of Alien, not Aliens (not that I didn't like Aliens)
This trailer is as much a piece of art as any movie, something you can't often say about a commercial. This shows the difference between pummeling an audience with sensory overload and intriguing them. It's too bad that after decades of the former it seems to be the only way to reach potential viewers. The music for this trailer is by Jonathan Elias.
This is what everyone who makes trailers for a living should aim to achieve. This trailer made me scared to watch a movie I'd already seen.
TJ Hastie plot twist, aliens were created because the earth finally destroys the avatar planet.
TJ Hastie that’s hilarious.
Yea
And the trailer was so good that they put it on the VHS tape (90's release) of the very same movie.
Nice
This is how trailers should be made today. It doesn't show too much, it doesn't spoil the movie, and it get people interested. Damn, its one unsettling trailer.
Seriously. Horror trailers nowadays get more laughs than shocks from me
Yeah, but it wouldn't sell on audiences of today, unfortunately. They would be too unsettled and say, "I don't want to see that. I have no idea what's going on."
That was kind of the point of the trailer, though. To make you curious, so that you would pay to find out what the movie is about, to find out what's going on.
Audiences today DO NOT want to find out what's going on. They want the same story over and over again. They want to feel SAFE. They want to be in a FAMILIAR place. Show the whole movie and then MAYBE they'll go see it.
Mills Productions Anyone remember the Independence Day teaser way back when?
In my opinion this is and always will be one of the best trailers of all time, it creeps you the hell out, but does not spoil plot points and doesn't waste time with dialogue to 'explain' the movie. Lots of trailers at this time were horrendous with cheesy voice overs, and today we get too much repetition with the inception horns and fade to black with a big bwaaaah and explosion, in other words great trailers have always been pretty rare.
you must be a big fan of ihe
Actually, I've loved this trailer even before IHE was a thing.
Aliens
Yeah, I really love the Institute of Highway Engineers too.
Colin Dowden maybe he is. Your point?
The way it goes from low droning to sirens to chaos and screaming for 10 seconds only for it to abruptly cut out with the shot of the tiny ship and the tagline is so damn good. Hell of a trailer.
Facts! Just this trailer alone creeps you out and makes you uncomfortable, but at the same time, it makes you want to see it just to know what the hell is going on.
The tagline is so creepy: "In space, no one can hear you scream"
I know where dead space got the idea from
I love the fact that they don't reveal the Alien and yet it still manages to creep you out. Ingenious. It's the fear of the unknown that this movie employs so well. This is my favorite horror movie ever.
It's good they didn't. That suit was pretty cheesy.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 because the actor was so tall and there is a lot of smart camera angle use you cannot see it's a suit. it beats any CGI
@@SM-ce1uy impossible for a man in a suit to be better then cgi
Correct. The fact that you do not know what it looks like, and the fact that it keeps changing makes things all the scarier.
@@jondoe2715 When the alien is getting blasted away from the ship by Ripley it looks a little too human and you can tell it is a guy in a suit but for most of the deaths you can’t tell
RIP the cast members of Alien
Helen Horton (November 21, 1923 - September 28, 2007), aged 83
Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 - September 15, 2017), aged 91
Sir Ian Holm (September 12, 1931 - June 19, 2020), aged 88
Yaphet Kotto (November 15, 1939 - March 15, 2021), aged 81
Sir John Hurt (January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017), aged 77
Bolaji Badejo (August 23, 1953 - December 22, 1992), aged 39
You will be remembered as legends.
Helen Horton? Who did she play in the film?
@@bnelso2833 she was the voice for the Nostromo.
i cant believe its so many of em, least we still got sigourney weaver 😭
When Harry Dean Stanton followed John Hurt 's death i had this morbid thought that the actors would start dying in the same sequence of the movie
@@brandoneichconstante8745 If you watch the director's cut of the film.. Their deaths are in sequence..
That siren is still spine chilling even now...
I want to make use that siren as a sample for a beat it’s so chilling but it would make something amazing
It doubles as an emergency warning of a terrible situation unfolding, and screams of an unspeakable horror.
The siren was the SOS signal that woke up the crew of the Nostromo. The scene that used it was cut from the movie.
Is it a siren? I always thought it was some sort of scream, fits well with the tagline
@@indyclonejr eurisko is right it was a distress call from a scene that was cut from the film
Is there an award for best trailer? Because holy crap, this deserves it!
This so much.
+Kerry Buchanan My ass crack is like lava flowing SCARED SHIT!!!!
true
If they do, Alien and Body Double (1984) would get my vote!
Nope. Just a award for predictable posts and you won.
"In space, no one can here you scream" is the single most genious tag line anyone has come up with in cinema. Not only are you alone, miles upon miles upon miles away from earth, you're trapped. No one knows you're in danger, nor is anyone coming to help you.
Not to mention sound cannot travel in the vacuum of space
Your co workers on the space ship can hear you scream and they will try to help you.
And you don't know if there will be any return. There's remains everywhere and something with HYPERINTELLEGENCE IS HUNTING YOU AND KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE. If you come back alive, you'll most likely be traumatized beyond belief.
'whoop-dee-doodly-doo, slipped on a space puddle of OH MAY GAWD THAT'S JIMMY- what is that. Why is it here OH GOD ITS LOOKING AT ME-'
and also
'huh, everybody's gone. oooooh so THAT'S what that red stuff was. huh. Eh, i'll be-'
*VICIOUS MURDER SOUNDS*
so uh not that universe please :3
Welp, I’m never going to be an astronaut
And even if they wanted to, they'd never get there in time
Crazy how much this trailer holds up. 35+ years old and it still feels very modern.
I've seen Alien 100 times and this makes me want to see it for the 101st time.
This trailer gave me chills
Definitely doesn't feel modern. It feels like another time, when movies were gooder.
Doesn't feel modern. Modern trailers and films are soulless.
My wife can't understand how i can keep rewatching alien and i always tell her that feeling of awe and suspense is always the same. Truly a masterpiece
The time when movie use 2 scare you now horror movie dont cause me any chils
The trailer itself is a perfect match with the tag line: in space no one can hear you scream - after all the chaos in the trailer, everything returns to silence when it pans out to looking at the ship from far distance and when the tag line emerges... The comparison between what happens on the ship versus when you look at the ship from a distance on the outside is so ingenious. The atmosphere of helplessness is so haunting....
why can't today's trailers be this perfectly orchestrated? Today we have become too concentrated on the competition of box office, we've forgotten what a movie is really about...
This is me a couple of weeks ago when the new Star Wars trailer came out:
"That's the best trailer since Alien in 1979 - I AM DEFINITELY WATCHING THIS MOVIE!"
The new Star Wars trailer doesn't give away the plot, shows glimpses of awesome stuff, and ends with a possible alliance between Rey and Kylo Ren, and poor Luke Skywalker looking on helpless.
No commentary, just awesomely appetising shots!
Learn much have they - yes, much they have learned. :)
[that's my impression of Yoda]
@@jazzx251 so…
@@jazzx251 Didn't learn much since the new Star Wars movies have been disasters.
@@kendallrivers1119well, the trailers are often better than the actual movies themselves.
@@kendallrivers1119just money grabs
If this was made now it would show the alien in the first 30 seconds.
Arperture Try the first 5, but close enough!
Yeah I love how the only glimpse of the alien in this was the brief shot of the face hugger
This trailer and the movie will go down as one of the greatest of all time. All other modern horror movies don't carry that same sense of scare factor in the way that Alien does. I can watch this 2 min trailer, and I would feel more satisfied than any modern horror movie in the theaters. The beauty of this trailer lies in that there's no dialogue, and thus no spoilers. The only thing that separates you from the footage is the creepy af music. Oh, and by the way, Alien >>>> Aliens.
Looks like you were right, they already did that.
The diminishing attention span.
The Shining and Alien are two perfect examples of amazing trailers. Both had creepy music that made your stomach cringe, they didn't spoil the movie by showing barely or any images, and they both left you dazed and confused.
Do not forget The Thing it's like this to!
+Oi325 of course man! The Thing is also one of my favorites too!
Even the title alone "Alien" leaves much for people to ponder. What does the Alien look like? Is it just one or are there more of them? Who are these people and how would they ever come in contact with this alien? Trailers today are garbage and don't leave anything to the imagination. Here there is no dialogue, no "witty" jokes, and no spoiling what the movie is actually about. I like it when writers/directors are ballsy enough to let the audience think for themselves and ask questions/be confused.
The best of the best .
Yes! Perfect corrollary! The Shining trailer scared the hell out of the audience with nothing more than an image of elevator doors opening and pouring blood all over the floor of a hotel lobby.
It's mind-bowing that right after this Ridley made Blade Runner. Two home runs in a row. The man's an amazing director.
Chris Wolff Used to*
@@miguelr3135 when he's allowed to do his thing without studio interference he can still do great things
@@argebarse He is allowed to, but he obviously is past his prime.
@@israelarellano8335 yep, and "Alien: Covenant" pretty much proves this. while "Prometheus" was an alright film, I feel that we didn't need an Alien prequel, because it would spoil the mystery of the Space Jockey from the original 1979 film
👏👏👏
Scary as hell, and without one word of dialogue or exposition. Pure artistry.
There is one word. A L I E N
In space, no one can hear you scream
The ultimate film version of a mic drop
greatest tagline ever. period.
Gives me goosebumps just by thinking about it.
Great in fact
Makes no sense if you can scream you can hear it yourself
Couldnt anorher spaceman hear another spaceman scream, they can hear people from earth via a radio signal. I just mike dropped you.
Damn! If my parents would have seen that trailer, they never would have let me go see that movie when I was 12! So glad I got to see that in the theaters in 1979!! As a 12 year-old, it scared THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
I think I was 13 or 14. They showed it on TV in the UK. Everyone was out. I turned all the lights off. I sat two feet from the screen. It scared me to death! But I loved it!
Even the very distinctive sounds of the two fire alarms on the Nostromo can put me into a panic if I'm being honest.
It was rated 15 yo in my country back in the time. Me and my buddy were 13 and tried to get in. I got my ticket, but my friend (who was way shorter than me back then, but ironically grew really tall just a couple of years later) got asked for an ID. So that was it. Had to watch it on VHS a couple of years later.
I’m eleven and I already watched like halfway through it and it wasn’t even that scary.
Scares me now and I’m almost 50!
12 here too in the theater. What a phenomenal experience!!!
42 years old, and still one of the most effective trailers I’ve ever seen. Notice they tell you nothing whatsoever about the plot, but show only snippets from the film with the siren blaring in the background. This is how you make a trailer.
I love this movie, and this is the first time I’m watching this. The genius of no dialogue with just the creepy music followed by that iconic tagline is just perfection.
Should I watch this with my cousins.?? Will it be entertaining?? Please reply asap
@@hyper-nationalist2348 Yes
"iconic" or textual?
This trailer is art, sends chills down my spine everytime I watch it
Hollywood this is how you do a trailer. You give the audience an idea what's in the movie but you leave it a mystery to entice their curiosity.
Just watched alien romulus trailer and I can assure u guys that this is still the best trailer ever crafted
A pretty much perfect trailer. Creates so much tension while revealing just the bare bones of the story. And it's terrifying. Also one of the most memorable tag lines in cinema history too. And if all that wasn't enough, the film is superb too.
"A perfect organism..." 😃
Here after the Alien Romulus trailer
Me too
Same
Hello there friends. It's MARATHON TIME!!!!
^^ There's always 1 Debbie Downer
Have you seen Alien ??
The best trailer of all time. Tells you everything you need to know, but gives nothing away.
Still far and away one of the best trailers ever made. Concise, taut, tense, claustrophobic: it sums up the film. No voiceover, just fearful voice. Brilliant sound design. Seeing an Alien Double Bill next week in Brighton and cannot wait.
The GOAT of movie trailers. Never going to be surpassed.
I love that ambient screech you hear. It's just terrifying.
Is it *even* a screech? I always wondered exactly what the hell that sound is!
This film is... STILL the absolute benchmark of science fiction and I daresay... one of the defining experiences for what cinema was/is/will be
And, unfortunately, we have a 100 movies that are rip-offs of Alien, with 1-dimensional actors.
This film is a psychological horror and that’s why it’s so good causes its not just a jumpscaring film
no
@@chenyilong9728 🤡
This movie is so awesome, the texture of everything in the film and how everything looks so humid it just puts you right in there. Brilliant filmmaking.
Ridley's background in art direction and advertising is evident throughout...tight, almost claustrophobic editing and visual narrative condense this to one of the greatest film teasers of all time...a work of cinematic art worthy of an award itself...and never surpassed...
This trailer scared the hell outta me when I was a little kid thanks to the Disney movie ride. Watched Alien when I was... 12? Not as scared as I thought I would be. Definitely my favorite horror movie next to The Thing 1982.
Omg, I had the same experience as you, just seeing the trailer gave me nightmares for the rest of my childhood, the funny thing is that I never actually watched the movie 😅
@@elasmith4218It's the best alien movie ever. Very much worth it.
That siren sound is absolutely terrifying . They used it again in the Prometheus trailers and it’s amazing still to the modern day it worked extremely well
Yeah I actually liked the Prometheus trailers too. That siren is anxiety inducing
I've seen this movie... a lot. And the siren sound in this trailer still never fails to give me anxiety. Such a perfect trailer.
This is probably the scariest movie trailer I have ever seen. Admittedly the movie isn't quite this scary, but it's a damn good film. In fact, it's incredible.
I've seen the film a few times, and it's a masterpiece and I still jump in places, however, I have never seen this trailer before, OMFG it's not that it scares me it unnerves me like makes me feel very uneasy, I think it's the sirens and hearing no one talking in it, it's pure genius
I thought the sirens were just a recording of a woman screaming manipulated with special effects. which kinda makes it even scary for me.
Here I am in 2024 still looking to this trailer as what films should be doing. Finding it hard to find a trailer today that hides so much and still gets you pumped to watch the film.
The camera work was so exceptional in this movie 1:17 HOW DID THEY MAKE THAT SHOT LOOK SO FUCKING GOOD!? It's so moody and the lighting is absolute perfection throughout(Can't stress enough how good the shadows look). You don't get to see this level of artistry or professionalism or confidence in one's own work very often. I mean the balls they had to have ZERO dialogue, mostly devoid of sound effects that would be relateable or expected to the human ears. *This is art.*
The perfect trailer! I've watched it a zillion times, and it never gets old. This is how they should all be done. Tease you without telling you anything or everything.
This might be my favorite trailer ever and probably the best ever made. It ALWAYS gets my heart pounding and is just so effective even today.
This is one of the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever made. I mean what else can I say, it’s a groundbreaking classic.
This is perhaps the best trailer ever made. And the atonal soundscape (rather than music) could easily play at the end credits of an intense horror movie.
Phenomenal trailer, so surreal and raises the hair on my back. The sound design is absolutely phenomenal.
Now imagine you are in a theater in 1978/79, waiting for the show you wanted to see to start and this trailer comes on, in the pitch black, on a huge screen with surround speakers blasting that unnerving soundtrack around you!
Please don't tell me they had to hurt the cat shown in the trailer.... 😣
@@Gameboy-Unboxings They didn't, according to how the production went they got the cat to hiss by having a large dog hidden from it off screen during the shot then when they needed it to hiss pulled back a curtain separating them, the cat did hiss and look angry so it worked.
I was there Gandalf! I saw this trailer at the cinema in '79. Totally unexpected and absolutely terrifying
Can't believe this was 1979, ridiculously good cinematography
The BEST movie ever made. A L I E N.
This is how you stop kids from wanting to be astronauts
Watching this now, for the first time in years.
The acting, the actors, are superior, compared with today's such types.
It's what made the movie work, is that the characters acted so 'every day'.
Back then, most actors actually had stage or theater or Broadway experience, is what made them so dern good and believable.
Trailer and tagline…utter perfection.
The best & masterpiece of all alien movies.
It really disappoints me how modern day horror is just blood and guts and jump scares. There is almost no psychological horror in modern horror meaning the modern generation doesn't appreciate the psychological horror of alien as if they don'ts see it in the first ten seconds then they would call it boring. THis is why it was so successful in 1979 because it had never really been seen before in that way meaning audiences were shocked
The Pigeon On The Roof watch the babadook
I'm 13, yet Alien is my favorite franchise! Your right about modern horror though. I've always been called "Out-Of-Date" at my school. I've always been more 70's & 80's than modern. But this movie's amazing! While I like Aliens better, Alien was an amazing film nonetheless!
+APuckettCinema Your taste in film-making is great, never let anybody tell you differently.
+The Pigeon On The Roof The scariest, most psychologically terrifying film I have ever seen in the Tenant (1976).
The Pigeon On The Roof There many modern psychological horror films. You just have to know where to look for them.
This was considered to be one of the greatest trailers ever made. Glimpses of terrifying scenes with an added introverted heart beating in the background to add that familiar sense of undying horror that hid just around a corner to scare you to death. Although just over a minute in length the trailer helped captivate, as well as gripped a person's self awareness of his or her surroundings. Alien is the pinnacle of movie making with built sets, gritty shots, and more than life actors who shaped, and defined its message to how dangerous space can really be. Just like the tagline pitch said before, "In space no one can hear you scream." Ridley Scott will go down as one of the best realistic directors of all time. Not because of realism in his sequences but how his actors portray and deliver their lines with seething and often raw emotional outbursts. Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, or even Black Hawk Down right up to todays Alien continuations. Hopefully the new Blade Runner sequel movie will prove entertaining like it did when the first part was shown in 1984.
This film and its trailer are now more than 40 years old. The point of a trailer is to get people to come and see the film. I don’t care who you are or where you are from…when you watch this trailer, there is an undeniable pull to see…this…film. And yet…the plot and the epic moments are all preserved. We have seen many other fine films come and go across many, many genres and nowadays, the trailer has become an afterthought. We have the internet now to “tell” us if a film is “worth” seeing…
This remains undefeated as the best trailer in cinema history.
This trailer has more atmosphere than entire movies. I didn't need any more reason to consider Alien one of the best sci-fi and/or horror films ever made, but then I stumbled on the trailer. Amazing.
This is THE definitive trailer to ever spawn in theatres, the best bar none!
I do wish trailers today (although the Godzilla trailer was great) would give you this sense of hype without having to show the main subject, just have it enough to keep you guessing and get suspense. And this trailer came out in 1979! And, of course, Alien is among one of my favorite science fiction films and one of my favorite films period. By the way, this is my one hundredth or so view of this beautiful sneak peek.
You said it all right there. This should be the blueprint for what trailers should be. Just the right amount of suspense and great editing without giving away any plot lines.
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rawrvintageisclassic speaking of Godzilla the one from 1998 when Godzilla lays eggs the eggs look identical to the one in alien and when I see the cover of the movie I always thought that the alien was gonna be some type of reptile alien creature
Ladies and gentlemen, the best horror movie trailer since the "Psycho" trailer!
The threat itself is never shown on camera, but the reactions from the crew and the horrific sound design play up the imagination until we actually see the movie ourselves! This is exactly how a horror movie trailer should be!
And the tagline at the end of it gives me chills every time!!
Best trailer ever ! Alien Romulus should have done something similar.
Alien Romulus is just teaser trailer, but this looks more horror. I hope Romulus is not just stupid action.
Beyond amazing, even the trailer is a masterpiece
In space no one can hear you scream. What a great ending to a trailer. Absolutely outstanding.
so why were they all screaming then
In space, no one can hear you scream. Awesome movie from the year 1979! 😊 Alien really scares the living hell out of me!
“In space, no one can hear you scream”
And that’s why I’ll NEVER be an astronaut!
my fave film trailer ever. implies how scary the film will be, without revealing too much, never even showing the alien. and the sound is akin to a magma or popol vuh track. really, it's perfect.
This is the class act movie of all times. Perfection!
Not even that stupid "Covenant" can destroy the beauty of "Alien"
One of the absolute best trailers of all time.
Masterpiece trailer.
Gulbis 11 .....and masterpiece movie.
This is one of the best trailers.
Damn, 45 years later and the trailer still freaks me out.
I love how throughout most of the film ripley isn’t the main character and only in the ending they did that well because there wasn’t really a main one in this film it all depended on who survived the most
Exactly! It's just like the original Evil Dead. Ash doesn't even become the icon we know and love today until the second film, so it comes as a total surprise when he's the one that survives in the end!
The scariest part about the trailer for me is that you don't even see what is causing all the horror. The closest thing is an average looking egg (which looks nothing like the hideous final version we saw in the actual film) which hints of something being born, some vaguely organic like matter, and several cuts of panicking and frightened people; no indication of context to the scenes are given, no dialogue, no way of telling who will live or die by what means. Even the series' most iconic death is teased here by cutting away before we even see what is truly happening. This kind of trailer not only interests the audience, but also makes sure that they are not at all prepared for what they will see when they actually watch the film. To me, this is the perfect way to advertise a new horror movie.
I know the phrase “real horror is what you don’t see” has been used time and time again, but this trailer alone-to say nothing of the final film-just stands as a shining reminder that it bears repeating.
Real horror is what you *don’t* see.
That’s why Alien is a cinematic masterpiece of a horror film; even when “nothing” is happening, the movie is still absolutely chilling.
The Space Jockey is the perfect example of this.
Just showed this trailer to a friend and now she wants to see the movie (she is not a fan of horror movies). This is just an example of how this trailer will always be great enough to stand the test of time.
Alien is better than Aliens; that’s for sure.
I don’t know about that bub
@@Solar_sigma_ yes it is
It blows my mind on how so far ahead of it’s time this trailer truly is, it holds up so remarkably well to this day and looks so phenomenally well and truly timeless. This is so unbelievably tension grabbing and scary even to this day! This really is the definition of a timeless classic, the movie AND the trailer! Masterpiece on all fronts.
Even the trailer was ahead of its time 😮
Best trailer ever
many people seem to forget that siren noise originated from this trailer, as many often call it the prometheus trailer noise.
I mean, same director sooooo... I'd still call it valid.
I remember seeing this trailer on tv in 79. It scared the crap out of me and I knew it was going to be a hit.
Alien is such a good movie. And it’s good most people have seen Alien, cuz xenomorphs are referenced in many shows; Animaniacs, Family Guy, etc.
"in space no one can hear you scream"
The great thing about Alien was that you were actually drawn into the horror of the film. It was if you were there with the crew walking through the corridors of the Nostromo!
This is awesome! No words at all; nothing revealed.
For a late 70s movie trailer, this is just badass.
Never seen this trailer before, but I have to say its very effective even today. Not what I think of when I think of a typical trailer from 1979.
This is the craziest trailer ever. Pure madness. I love it.
One of the most terrifying movie trailers I have ever seen. It literally had my heart racing. A perfect prelude to an equally terrifying film.
Loved how the alien Romulus trailer gave an homage to this teaser
homeage?
Instead they spoiled the entire premise of the film
hands down one of the best trailers i've ever seen
This movie terrified me so much, I didn't even want to watch anything space related for about 2 years. I also cant wait for Alien Isolation, the game based of Alien, not Aliens (not that I didn't like Aliens)
So, did you enjoy Alien Isolation?
This is probably one of the most effective horror movie trailers I've ever seen.
This movie when I was 10 (1981) turned me into a sci-fi fan. So intense!
i was 10 in 79 and it drove me nuts this film because i couldnt go see it. nothing comes close to the first film for me
Easily the best Sci-Fi movie ever.
I just watched this for the first time! It was soooooo amazing 10/10.
The best trailer of all time
Yessss !!!!!! =D
The selfish, eerie way that cat backs up is epic. Lol
Best trailer ever made. It’s not even close.
remember: this is from 1979, this movie was so. soo ,, sooooooo, ahead of his time
NOW THAT’S HOW YOU MAKE A TRAILER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This trailer is as much a piece of art as any movie, something you can't often say about a commercial. This shows the difference between pummeling an audience with sensory overload and intriguing them. It's too bad that after decades of the former it seems to be the only way to reach potential viewers. The music for this trailer is by Jonathan Elias.
I watched this trailer in 35mm last year. And tbh this is, to me. The best teaser/trailer ever made.
often cited as the scariest trailer of all time and I can see why