Best Moments in Film History #10: The Birth of a Monster – Alien (1979)

The following post will contain spoilers. Stop reading if you haven’t seen the film

I watched Alien at a very impressionable age. I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old. Of all the cinematic moments I can highlight in my 33 years on this planet, perhaps none have had quite as big an impact as my first encounter with Ridley Scott’s Alien.