47 years after it premiered in theaters and terrified audiences around the world, the Ridley Scott masterpiece that rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre is set to stream on Netflix. Although there have been plenty of movies that have proven we shouldn’t trust any living organisms coming from outer space, the 116-minute gritty epic brought to the screen a nightmarish monster that put other extraterrestrial beings to shame. Space has always been scary, but after Scott’s seminal masterpiece, it became a place where nightmares actually came to life.

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