Alien

The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awaken from hypersleep to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS.

“In the original material, it was an all-man crew, and the creature was some kind of outer space octopus. The main idea David and I had was to do a slicked-up, high-class B-movie that as best we could avoided the usual cheeseball characters and dialogue. This doesn’t seem like much now, but the notion that you’d write up to a B movie idea – make it to be played with the same intentions and style as high drama – that was out of the box, then. […] The feeling we had of standing somewhere outside the genre helped get it off center and made it different in tone. And it gave us the courage to be irreverent. I mean when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re writing about a monster with acid for blood, some irreverence is called for.” (W. Hill)