AWESOME BUT SCARY MOVIE!! A really jump out at you kind movie... but kind of stupid... i mean if you were on some strage planet in space and you found these big eggs, would you really go and touch it? i mean really! good for older kids and teens. LOTS of language... f and s words a lot..
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Alien
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Not age appropriate for kids under 14, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 14. -
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Common Sense says
Dated, but still scary. Not for younger kids.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 14–18
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What Parents Need to Know
About Alien
Parents need to know that, while the demonic space monsters at the center of this 1979 classic shocker have since been overexposed via inferior sequels, video games, parodies, and comic books (even Superman battled them!), some of the best minds in cinema tried to ensure this movie would be a nightmare-inducer. Keep that in mind. Indeed, small kids are better off with E.T. Teens can take it for the thrill-ride that it is, and perhaps even discuss why they think it works so well (or doesn't) in evoking elemental terror.
Read our full review by Charles Cassady Jr.
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
older kid movie... teen movie
- I rate this title on for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
Excellent!
This movie is so amazing. The dark scenes were really well filmed. I first watched it when I was about six or seven. My parents watched it with me, but they're not all bad, they made me look away when the alien came out of Kane's stomach. I still love this movie but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone youner than thirteen.
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
- I rate this title on for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
10+ ok 10- no
AWESOME MOVIE!!!! i love this movie!! some scary parts but other than that, fine. movie for older kids (9 or 10+) or teens... the f word a few times, other swears too but overall ok.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
AWESOME
A scare-fest of an extra-terrestrial hidden in the shadows of a space craft, eating the crewmates one, by one. Great Halloween movie for older kids.
- I rate this title off for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
Fantastic movie, really suspensful. In one of the rooms, there was pictures of naked woman plastered on the walls (obviously masturbation tools for the lonely crew), and the f word is blurted out quite a few times, but Ridley Scott is a genius!
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
great science fiction horror
I thought this movie was AWESOME! There was some strong language though. They said the f-word 4 times. It was super violent. There were chests ripping open, there were 2nd jaws ripping stuff, there was a lot of suspence. There was this one part where there were pictures of topless woman for about 8 seconds. But it wasn't that bad. I thought it was overall pretty good movie for 10+.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
really good Sci-Fi/ horror movie
I thought this movie was very good. There is so much violence though. but overall it's fine for 10 and up
- I rate this title on for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
great movie
great movie cant wait to see aliens althoe it was great there was a decent amout of blood, vilence. jump out at you tipe of movie not for yonger kids or tweens
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
Great Science Fiction Horror
A great film. The creature effects are great, and there are a lot of good scares.
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
I really liked this movie. It sure is a classic. I also dident find it that R-ish. Anyone thirteen and up you should be abla to watch this no sweat. Great movie worth checking out.
- I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
A Classic
Great. Very Thrilling.
- I rate this title on for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
Graphic but spectacular sci-fi classic is very scary for kids.
Parents should know that this film has graphic violence including the infamous scene in which a baby alien bursts forth from a screaming man's gut. Other bloody attacks are implied and shown and there are jump scenes, There is some strong language in the movie and there are no strong messages.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Excessive consumerism
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
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- Good role models
I like it
WOW!
Lives in OhioI rate this title iffy for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
- Lives in FloridaI rate this title iffy for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- I rate this title iffy for age 16 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
Just a heads up its hard to see but I saw it without even looking, when ash goes on a rampage there are pictures of naked women (breast shown) in different sexual positions taped up on the wall, it is seen throughout the whole scene
- I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
One of the greatest sci-fi's of all time!
This film starring Sigourney Weaver and other fabulous cast members. This movie has only a select few f-words and little to no violence, and the only "bad" scene being an android getting the upper part of his torso and head decapitated with only white fluids coming out, and is only robot gore. So for anyone 12-13 and up go for it!!
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!
I would let a 10 year old see it, its fine! I love it!
- I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give it
Alien is a well made science fiction movie.
What can I say that anybody hasn't said? This was a well made horror/sci-fi movie. The creatures looks dreadful and the atmosphere was dark. The actors played their roles beautifully. Sure it was slow in some places but it's normal given the time it was made and we do need some character development. For sexual content, we see a woman that strips down to just panties and a T-shirt and she's in a spacesuit. An alien is known to have had "babies". For violence/gore it's very intense. The most gruesome scene of the movie is when an alien baby pops out of a man's abdomen and we see this act on-screen with gashes of blood. Several other violent acts. As for profanity there are at least 5 f bombs, some scatological and anatomical terms, and some religious exclamations and profanities. As for consumerism, there is none. Although the space technology sure does look awesome. For social behavior it's bad. Aliens that feed off human flesh and hatch their babies in human's abdomen. I'd recommend this movie to anybody that can handle graphic violence. The movie is tame for today's standards but still the movie is violent.
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