1986 Aliens
In 1979, director Ridley Scott gave us a dark and disturbing antidote to the charm of Star Wars. Alien was a hit, dark and brooding, scary and bloody, it was a game of cat and mouse on a spaceship with an alien with acid for blood. The ending of the movie was final, that was it. It was a hit with audiences and has become something of a cult classic, there was no doubt a sequel would be in the works. But how do you top a classic horror movie? Well, in the 80's there was only one way of thought - go bigger! James Cameron was hot after the critical reception of his previous movie The Terminator. He was hired to make Alien bolder and larger, his movie, Aliens, is exactly that. As the title would suggest we go from one alien to many. Sigourney Weaver returns to the role that made her, and this movie solidified her status as a Hollywood A-lister, as well as that of James Cameron. Here she is the expert on the species that she fought, as a group of marines are sent in to, we are
