This Day in Halloween: Director Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien" is released across the U.S. in 1979. / Illustration by Ryn Heller
Alien is released across the U.S. in 1979. Director Ridley Scott’s haunted-house-in-space sci-fi horror film is an immediate hit, and becomes a hugely influential vision for filmmakers for the next generation. The film also makes Sigourney Weaver a star.
