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Alien (1979 | Theatrical Cut) | Full Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-08-10 21:24:26
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2026-08

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I went into this fully bracing for the worst. Pretty sure you can literally hear and feel the terror in my voice during my intro hahaha. But I actually ended up coming out of it with a whole new perspective and appreciation for sci-fi horror! The way the movie used sound, atmosphere, and those wide, unsettling visuals without actually really showing too much.. It kept me on the edge of my seat in a really fun, suspenseful way. I'm not going to lie. I was lowkey mad at you all for letting this win the closely tied poll 🤣 But now I'm thankful to you guys for holding my hand and forcing me to get this film under my belt. I actually really enjoyed it! And the best part? No nightmares like The Last of Us did to me lol. So I think I'm getting better with the horror genre! Or at least this kind for now. We'll see if that holds up this spooky season 👀Thank you for your support on Patreon!Relax and enjoy 🍿🌿LINK: https://youtu.be/5udeMa6-SjcI watched this on Disney Plus (With my additional Hulu subscription)

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Alien | Watch Along

SOUND WARNING: I screamed. Kinda loud 🤣 Just make sure your volume on me isn't maxed out for this one lol. Sorry! Welcome in! 🌿 Grab a drink (warning: don't pick milk) and get settled in!

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kaliwali

ALSO SOUND WARNING: I screamed. Kinda loud lol. Just make sure you don't have my audio at max for this one :)

Scott S

Double-feature Sunday XD

kaliwali

Best of both worlds also 🤣👀🔥

Noby

That's okay. If we watch it in space we won't have to worry about that. :)

Code Monkey

@Kali .. if you could, please post the run-times of your copy of the movies .

Dave Olden

Is today a two for one deal?

kaliwali

the run time is in the bottom right corner of the movie image! :)

Code Monkey

and thanks for the direct YT link :)

Dave Olden

I just finished your Pirates reaction and was trying to figure a quote to have fun paraphrasing but now that Alien is up I am disinclined to acquiesce to that temptation … 😏

O1dManJ

Please add 1987 Predator to your movie list, can’t wait to see this later on 😎

20 16

Now your rdy for the original thing 😆lol jk .... Maybe

KJ

This movie came out within 2 years of Star Wars Episode IV. Talk about a culture shock. Audiences lost their minds watching this on the big screen in a dark theater in 1979. The atmosphere. The sound design. H. R. Giger's twisted and ingenious art style for set design. Also the moral of the story is: always listen to Ripley. Ripley is always right.

Code Monkey

Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I don't see that. I only get a YouTube prompt to sign in to prove I'm "not a bot". :/ It's all good. Thanks again!

Code Monkey

And no matter how ma y times I sign in, I get that prompt; :(

TheJoeKerr

this is like going to the movies and paying for one and sneaking into another movie. not that I ever did that when I was younger👀

Digital Droo

I'm not able to watch the reaction for a couple days so I must know: did Kali recognize the actor who played Ash?

Chris

I'm often a person in the comments saying a version of "this is great, personally would say the sequels are kinda trash" (Pirates *ahem*)... Not this one though. Aliens is also great--bit more action vibe and less horror vibe, so it's kinda whichever of those genres one prefers, but it'd be hard to argue that it's not good.

Richard

Honestly I struggled with this; I want you to see all these iconic movies but also I feel guilty whenever you get scared or shocked. And I don't want you to be mad at me (us) for recommending it 🙁 But now that you’ve survived, you’re ready for anything! A lot to unpack, but I suppose I'll tackle this big one first. As you may have gathered, a lot of this film was rooted in psychosexual terror. You probably noticed a lot of things looked like male or female genitalia in appearance (overt at times, the alien’s head looks like a giant penis lol) So yeah, a lot of sexual subtext and when it’s combined with the other elements it can’t fail to generate a very uncomfortable reaction from the viewer. This was deliberate by the director and art designer, but instead of going after the females in the audience they were striving to make the males reeaally uncomfortable. Scenes of oral rape, forced "childbirth" etc were meant to be viscerally disturbing to the male audience. Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger's creature effects were based on some of his published art like the Necronomicon. The Alien was 100% his designs. Then the director Ridley Scott was instrumental in bringing that palpable sense of fear, dread, and overwhelming suspense as scenes were drawn out to maximize all those feelings. I don't like violence but recognize it is a necessary evil for certain types of films; but for this one it's much more about the creepy atmosphere, constant tension, realistic characters, and creature effects. The chest-bursting scene though is definitely ground-breaking and legendary when it comes to film lore. Alien spawned literally hundreds of wanna-be movies of this genre over the years The effects 100% hold up to this day, which is pretty important for a sci-fi film if it wants to maintain legendary status. Really the only dodgy effect was the alien outside the shuttle. The characters were incredibly "real", they looked and acted like normal people. I was a non-desensitized gentle 16-year-old when I saw this at my father’s lady friend’s house – to say it had a visceral impact on me would be an understatement. Nightmares! But I’m super duper psyched for if/when you see Aliens. As you know it’s hard for me to curb my enthusiasm but I am confident it would be one of your greatest reactions yet. The stakes are a lot higher. It has absolutely the greatest performance ever by a strong female lead and has huge motherhood themes that will hit you right where you live. Also you learn a lot more about why the aliens do what they do. Not as scary, but still an intense roller-coaster. Like Alien, it is best to watch the theatrical cut that we saw in theaters. Sorry you got creeped out and frightened so much! I know it’s not your preferred type of movie but you are ticking a lot boxes at least on this reaction journey.

The Amazing Webhead

Good reaction! Curious what you’ll think of the franchise going forward since this one film would go on to spawn sequels, prequels, a new spin off tv series, & a crossover 👀

Eric H

Sorry for my continued involvement in your traumatization. To quote Captain Mal, "I am a bad man". But really, my goal was to help traumatize you just a little bit more with you watching and reacting to Aliens. It is one of those rare cases where the sequel is as good or better than the original. Happy Reacting!

Phil Stubblefield

Kali, I keep telling you to slow down! How am I supposed to keep up when you release reactions to Pirates and Alien on the *same day*?!? 😂 I guess that's a pretty darn good problem to have, now that I think about it... #FirstWorldProblems

ButtercupsTrueLove

I thoroughly enjoyed Kali's reaction to her first time watching "Alien". I was hoping she would get something more out of the viewing than to just be scared out of her wits. There are some films that I find absolutely horrifying and would have a tough time recommending for a poll but "Alien" isn't one of them. I saw "Alien" in the theater the year of release. It was definitely more of a horror vibe than science fiction like "2001: A Space Odyssey" or science fantasy like "Star Wars". I was not prepared for the face hugger OR the chest burster scenes! I could not have imagined these types sequences in a movie at the time. Parker and Brett first impressions are that they are a couple of slackers just in it for every dollar they can squeeze out of the company but when the element of danger rears its head they get to work as a matter of survival. They step up when it's time to search for the little chest burster, not just allowing the rest of the crew to do everything themselves. As for the Kane, if I were in Ripley's command chair with her captain, Lambert, and Kane in the air lock, I would have a tough time making a decision to let them into the ship. Keeping in mind that this crew didn't just meet for the first time when Mother awakened them from sleep but have served alongside each other on the Nostromo for the duration of the journey before settling down for the trip home. If these people were my crewmates and friends, it wouldn't be an easy thing to leave them behind. Safety rules are usually in place for a reason but whaddya do when it's a friend? With the films of director Ridley Scott, I don't think Kali has to worry about cheesy production values or gimmicky jump scares thrown into the mix for the hell of it. In 2021, studios released two of his films that were wildly different in genre and time period, both being based on actual events - "The Last Duel" and "House of Gucci".

Hefty517

Something I want to point out from earlier in the movie that foreshadowed what was to come: When they are exploring the ship they find and see the giant alien pilot, they note his midsection was broken from the inside outward…

M1 Maz

The cat survived, I can go to sleep happy :) First time watch here, and I think the biggest takeaway from this one for me was how good the sound design was. The pacing was very slow, sure, but that allowed for the creepy atmosphere to take hold and build tension. That with all the wide, long camera shots made me keep wanting to squint my eyes, waiting for the jump scare LOL Also, the initial planet where they found the alien was giving me major Mass Effect vibes. That one mission in ME3 where you have to go into that underground cavern and use the flamethrower against all the creepy-crawlies and those alien eggs haha

Richard

OK now I’ve watched. Poor Kali you were grossed out so many times. You had an endless variety of shocked, worried, anxious, frowny “on the edge” facial expressions. The debate has raged for years over what the Alien did to Lambert. In keeping with the disturbing sexual subtext, we see its tail sliding up between her legs and then Ripley finds her hanging with her shoes and pants off . . . 😬 That actress who portrayed Lambert did a phenomenal job of being in a state of complete and unhinged terror the whole movie. Sunshine, happiness, and rainbows don’t worry that’s what my movie tickets will be 😂. It was reinforced to me during this reaction that when you are all frightened and vulnerable it makes us love you and want to protect you 🥹 yeah that’s just a normal male reaction to a female in peril. I was very proud of how brave you were!

Dude Longcouch

Ah yes, the movie where nobody listens to the only competent person on the ship, so they all die and she and her cat are the lone survivors. 10/10 So Kali, now that you've seen Alien, here's a crazy fun fact for you. In the Alien universe, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is the name of the company that owns the Nostromo, the ship in this movie. But they also appeared in another franchise you know - the pilot episode of Firefly. Their logo is clearly visible in the first scene of the first episode - you can see it on the targeting overlay on the stationary gun that Mal uses to shoot down the ship in the Battle of Serenity Valley. This was a fun little easter egg that Joss Whedon included, because he co-wrote the script for 1997's Alien: Resurrection. So technically, Firefly and Alien take place in the same universe, if you go in for that sort of thing :p

Jonathan D

Not true. And, why does she need to know that? Let Kali discover the Alien franchise all on her own. Regardless of what you say, she doesn't listen to people who tell her "don't watch this movie, it isn't good." She always makes the correct judgment about everything concerning movies. Please, stop with the doom-and-gloom, spoiler movie takes.

Chris

Didn't say "don't watch..." anything--watch whatever. But if you consider that a spoiler, then I don't know what to tell ya.

Łukasz Jarczewski

Hej, Kali. Since you've finally watched one of the best sf movies ever made is there any small chance you'd play "Alien Isolation"? ;) A climate straight from the movie and suspense. I once persuaded my sister and she said that she had not felt such tension for a long time. And she was delighted. BTW. Kali ,If you were in their shoes, you would be fascinated because man is a curious creature and to say that we would have done things differently is talking nonsense. Movies would be boring if characters behaved rationally.

kaliwali

the original thing?? what's that? lol

McShades

Yeah, but can you still eat spaghetti !!! lol

20 16

John Carpenters 1982 the thing . I don't know if you heard of him but he is probably or one of the greatest horror directors there is . His other work is the very well known Halloween and Michael Myers.

kaliwali

I'm not really sure what's going on with your YouTube. I would think that you wouldn't even need to 'Sign In' to see this video since the link is given and it is listed as unlisted (meaning anyone with the link can access it.) So sorry you're having issues! I'm not sure how to help in this situation, however 🙀

kaliwali

I can't even imagine being in a loud dark theatre watching this movie for the first time.. I have to believe that for this time this was such an intense and "nothing like this has been seen before" type of viewing lol.

kaliwali

I definitely realized it was Mr. Bilbo Baggins playing the very sketchy Ash! Who turned out to be so much more hahaha. I didn't blurt out "OMG ITS BILBO" because I was honestly very into the film and atmosphere. I really didn't want to break the immersion in that moment (more for myself, but I also feel like you guys can appreciate that I don't name every familiar actor/actress I see from somewhere before during these more intense films). I feel like when I do this, it's usually in a more casual film where the role isn't so immersive and deep. Sometimes I won't mention I notice an actor/actress because I just want to hang onto that immersion into the role they are playing. So long story short, YES of course I noticed who played Ash! But I didn't break the immersion by pointing it out because this film was sooo good at setting and keeping that tone and I just knew there was something odd with Ash and his character lol

kaliwali

Read my response to Andrew! :)

kaliwali

I'd love to check out more of these films! Maybe I can continue some of them as our spooky months approach 👀

kaliwali

I.... I honestly didn't get the whole psychosexual terror until you said it. But now I can't unsee haha... Not sure how I feel about the director for wanting to "wreck us sexually". Kind of makes me feel strange now about this film, but hey. An artist is an artist and if that's what he was going for, looking at it that way I totally get his inspiration now lol.. Thanks for sharing!

kaliwali

Hopefully I can check out a few more of the films this spooky season!

kaliwali

LOL I honestly ended up liking this film a looot more than I thought I would! It wasn't traumatizing in a nightmares and have to keep the lights on type of way, which I really appreciate about it! Guess I'll have to check out the sequel now 👀

kaliwali

LOL I've definitely been going a bit overboard with the reacts lately, but it's been so much fun! Hopefully you can catch up soon!

kaliwali

You said it really well! "I could not have imagined these types sequences in a movie at the time" which I think is what made Alien such a huge horror hit for it's time! But I wasn't completely overwhelmed and horrified the entire time which was really nice. There was a lot more depth and plot twisting than I thought there would be and I really loved it for that! And exactly with the whole "safety rules are usually in place for a reason but..." 🤣 The characters in this made the whole thing feel SO believable. Between the arguing over contracts and money to the nonchalant "eh, yeah the rulebook says that but we never do it that way" kind of talk.

kaliwali

YES, they did! Very crazy foreshadowing now after watching it through 👀

kaliwali

LOL I was soooo worried for the cat. Honestly with the bickering onboard and the sheer lunacy at some points, I knew they were all going to die 🤣 It felt so inevitable! So then I kind of emotionally latched onto the cat and when I saw him getting flung around in that carrier and left for dead (multiple times) I started sweating haha And yesss on the sound design! I'm glad you picked up on that too, because it seriously made it all feel so much more immersive. And honestly I do feel like because of the horror elements in Mass Effect and honestly, Red Dead haha. I was super well equipped to handle this! It made it much more enjoyable than just being scared and sweating the whole time which I really loved.

kaliwali

I feel like my time in jump scarey movies lately (Spider-Mans lol, some MCU films, a few other randoms here and there) mixed with my time in Mass Effect and Red Dead helped me out so much with this movie! It wasn't bad at all! Sure the jumpscares got me a bit haha, but the whole overall vibe didn't leave me with night terrors :) Much more enjoyable than I ever would have thought first going into it!

kaliwali

WHAT! That's actually really cool that they can be spotted in Firefly! On my eventual rewatch I'll need to keep an eye out in that pilot episode now haha. Also kind of creepy now considering that Firefly and Alien are in the same universe 👀 That gives me a little chill haha

kaliwali

Ahh man, scary games are NOT my thing lol. A few streamers got me to play Phasmophobia with them and I was literally wheezing and couldn't move. Which I think is also how I would react if I was onboard this ship in Alien haha. I would find a safe spot, tuck myself inside, and nobody could move me for anything. I'd wait it out there until eventually I needed food/water and I'd probably just die of hyperventilating trying to move out of that spot LOL. I'm assuming this crew is so nonchalant about the alien lifeform because they've encountered it before? That's the only thing that makes sense to me lol. But if I saw that face hugger in real life, I'd be ejecting myself in that shuttle and taking off 🤣 It's fun to think about what you would do in another's situation though. That's something I actually do really frequently. Humans definitely are curious creatures. But when the hairs on the back of my neck say nope, I listen. Can't speak for others on that tho, of course!

Phil Stubblefield

Don't you mean that Mass Effect (2007, 2010, 2012) and other games remind you of Alien (1979)? 😉

Phil Stubblefield

With the exception of a few Predator crossovers, I've seen all of the movies in this franchise, and I never once picked up on the "psychosexual" overtones. If that was Ridley Scott's goal, well, it's a very secondary effect to me. Having an alien organism clamped on your face, laying an egg inside you, which then hatches and forcefully bursts out of your chest, growing at a prodigious rate into a nearly unstoppable killing machine... That's scary enough for me without having to consider a bunch of what I would consider pychobabble. (You can tell I was that kid who loathed high school English class debates about what the author intended versus what I got out of a story. 😂)

Brad

Best ever set design, right? It gets more noticeable after subsequent watches. One of my favorite movies. Thanks!

Calu

Good reaction Kali, glad you were able to face your fears. I am surprised you didn't recognize Bilbo Baggins (Sir Ian Holm)!!! 😲

Chris Truex

Is it weird that I'm kind of proud of you for powering through? You could tell from jump that you were at maximum tension. An expression that was the Platonic ideal of "worried". Great movie though, and while I am NOT a horror movie fan, this makes the cut for me (Also, anticipating "Spooky Season", you should check out The Others. Incredible spooky/horror film that I think you'd really enjoy)

Phil Stubblefield

Great reaction, Kali! I hope it doesn't sound condescending, but we're so proud of you for facing your fears and reacting to this iconic film! So, how 'bout that chest burster scene, huh? 😱 As you may have read by now, the actors in that scene were kept into the dark as to exactly what would happen. When the blood hit actress Veronica Cartwright in the face, the shock on her face was very real! It scared her so badly that she leapt backwards in terror, tripped over a set piece, and fell on her butt before being able to scramble back up and rejoin the scene. Several of the actors retreated to their trailers after filming and needed some time to recover themselves. BTW, as you may have mentioned in your outro, notice that it was Ash who said, "Don't touch it!" Random notes: * You were surprised that Sigourney Weaver is in this film. I think most people would consider Ellen Ripley to be her signature role. What did you think of her as, the Ghostbusters lady? * I love the little jump scare during the opening scenes when the computer screen loudly comes awake after the movie has spent several minutes touring the ship in near silence. * I love the (unintentional) contrast between the outstanding visuals and the very dated computer screens, especially the line-based orbit and terrain profiles. * After they've landed and sent the search party out to find the beacon, we see Parker and Brett bickering with Ripley, while Ash is handling communications. "I feel like our comms guy is the only one who's really concerned." You're right, Ash is very concerned with the progress of the mission... but not for the reasons you think! 😉 * There is so much foreshadowing in the alien ship, although the first-time viewer doesn't necessarily understand it yet: the pilot's body has burst open from the inside, all the rest of the crew is gone without a trace, and the hole in the deck through which Kane descends looks melted, as if by acid... * The first view of the face hugger after they remove Kane's helmet is truly terrifying! Having seen it so many times, I tend to forget that, but your reaction brought it back full strength! I'm so glad you enjoyed this film instead of being terrified beyond rational thought! BTW, when (not if!) you get around to watching Aliens (1986), please watch the Special Edition, which is a bit longer but fills in a few more details. Perhaps you can watch it during scary movie season in October?

Kenji Kita

Kali this was amazing. As a millennial who came to the Alien franchise after seeing a lot of other sci-fi, I feel like this is the closest I’ve gotten to experiencing what a theater-goer in 1979 experienced. You’re the GOAT!

Seth bandy

I’ve seen this film so many times, it and its sequel are my all time favorites. Also when it had its 45 year anniversary in theaters, I had to see it, one of the best experiences ever.

Danny

When i was a kid my family loved this movie so much (and the sequel ALIENS even more) we named our first cat Jonesy. Our Jonesy was a tuxedo cat but he was also a survivor and adventurer!

Mikey

Great Reaction! Hopefully you can watch the sequel "Aliens" sometime soon, its a great film. If possible would you consider watching the extended edition of that film?

kaliwali

Ahhh, that's awesome! I'm so glad you enjoyed my reaction and I could give you that feeling again! 👀✨

kaliwali

I'm so glad you enjoyed my reaction to this and I'm also proud of myself, too hahaha. I was sooo nervous going into this, but once I started to get the vibe and the storyline got more and more interesting- I was honestly hooked. I didn't loveeee the gross scenes, but it made it uncomfortably fun if that makes sense haha. And YES! I've only ever known Sigourney Weaver as the Ghostbusters lady. So it was really cool to see her in this role! I really loved her as Ripley. The voice of reason and the one the crew should have been listening to all along 🤣 And the face hugger was actually horrifying hahaha. I hate that it's called face hugger, but I can accept it I suppose 🤣👀 I'd love to jump into Aliens next! And I keep seeing everyone mention the special edition, so I'll most likely watch that one. I think October would be a very fitting time to watch it so I'll definitely be counting it as one of my spooky films I plan on tackling this coming season ✨

kaliwali

I loooove that you named your cat after Jonesy! I just got a tuxedo cat this year and we named him Remy. Someone on an instagram post of him mentioned that tuxedo cats are just orange tabby's in a suit and I feel like that is a VERY accurate description haha

kaliwali

Yes! I'd love to watch Aliens next! And I hear a lot of people mentioning the extended edition, so I'll do that as well ✨

kaliwali

LOL not weird at all because I'm also proud of myself 🤣 I'm sure you could tell in the intro I was so nervous going into this one. But once I got into it more, I realized it's not so much about nightmares but a sci-fi tale about the creepy things we find in deep space lol. That made it so much better for me honestly! I haven't heard of The Others so I'll add it to my spooky season list I've been compiling through suggestions here! I'll probably run a few polls so I'll be sure to include it on there!

Chris Truex

It stars Nicole Kidman... it's a Real Movie(TM), so not a slasher or anything!

Fettmatic

The company sent the Synthetic. My mom took me to see this movie. I was very young & remember a few things. Even at the age I was. When you finished watching these films. Check out the new show Akien: Earth. The show takes place 2 years before this movie.

Jim Green

wow YOU did it! I'm one of the "senior" Patreon members here who had the absolute blessing of sitting in a darkened theater with my pops the week it was released. Can you imagine, being 12 years old, at their first "R" rated movie to have this thrown at you. The thing you have to remember about that era, is that movie hype was almost non existent. Info about upcoming movies was a scarce thing. As far as I knew, this was gonna build on that other little space movie called Star Wars , that came out a year and a half earlier. What I got was still to this day the scariest movie I have ever seen. So pat yourself on the back, its no small feat. You should LOVE Aliens, can't wait for that reaction!

Mark Messer

Im glad you got that info!

Noah Schmid

wow you dont give a single shit about kane not even try to save human life😂 " just throw him out in space" same with first alien life form, just throw it out😂