Facebook Twitter Pinterest
£2.44
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20. Details
Only 6 left in stock.
Sold by Discs4all and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.

Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service Amazon offers sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon directly does the picking, packing, shipping and customer service on these items. Something Amazon hopes you'll especially enjoy: FBA items are eligible for and for Amazon Prime just as if they were Amazon items.

If you're a seller, you can increase your sales significantly by using Fulfilment by Amazon. We invite you to learn more about this programme .

Quantity:1
Alien - Definitive Editio... has been added to your Basket

Other Sellers on Amazon
Add to Basket
£2.45
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20.00. Details
Sold by: mikes_store
Add to Basket
£2.71
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20.00. Details
Sold by: Amazon
Add to Basket
£3.20
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20.00. Details
Sold by: Jasuli
35 used & new from £0.88
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Alien - Definitive Edition [DVD] [1979]

Get £1 Off Amazon Video*

Ridley Scott (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars 212 customer reviews
Want it delivered to Germany - Mainland by Saturday, 9 Apr.? Order within 18 hrs 52 mins and choose Priority Delivery at checkout. Details
Sold by Discs4all and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.

Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service Amazon offers sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon directly does the picking, packing, shipping and customer service on these items. Something Amazon hopes you'll especially enjoy: FBA items are eligible for and for Amazon Prime just as if they were Amazon items.

If you're a seller, you can increase your sales significantly by using Fulfilment by Amazon. We invite you to learn more about this programme .

Note: This item is eligible for click and collect. Details
Pick up your parcel at a time and place that suits you.
  • Choose from over 13,000 locations across the UK
  • Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional cost
How to order to an Amazon Pickup Location?
  1. Find your preferred location and add it to your address book
  2. Dispatch to this address when you check out
Learn more
25 new from Â£1.38 8 used from Â£0.88 2 collectible from Â£16.99

Amazon Instant Video

Watch Alien: The Director's Cut instantly from £2.49 with Amazon Instant Video
Also available to rent on DVD from LOVEFiLM By Post
£2.44 & FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20. Details Only 6 left in stock. Sold by Discs4all and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.

Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service Amazon offers sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon directly does the picking, packing, shipping and customer service on these items. Something Amazon hopes you'll especially enjoy: FBA items are eligible for and for Amazon Prime just as if they were Amazon items.

If you're a seller, you can increase your sales significantly by using Fulfilment by Amazon. We invite you to learn more about this programme .

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

  • Alien - Definitive Edition [DVD] [1979]
  • +
  • Aliens - Special Edition [1986] [DVD]
  • +
  • Alien 3 - The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1992]
Total price: £10.80
Buy the selected items together

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

Customers Also Watched on Amazon Video

Product details

  • Directors: Ridley Scott
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Mar. 2007
  • Run Time: 111 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (212 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000M2E5DE
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,036 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

When Kane (John Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship 'Nostromo' investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which will hatch out through his stomach (one of cinema's most memorably gory scenes) and proceed to hunt down the crew one by one.

From Amazon.co.uk

By transplanting the classic haunted house scenario into space, Ridley Scott, together with screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, produced a work of genuinely original cinematic sci-fi with Alien that, despite the passage of years and countless inferior imitations, remains shockingly fresh even after repeated viewing. Scott's legendary obsession with detail ensures that the setting is thoroughly conceived, while the Gothic production design and Jerry Goldsmith's wonderfully unsettling score produce a sense of disquiet from the outset: everything about the spaceship Nostromo--from Tupperware to toolboxes-seems oddly familiar yet disconcertingly ... well, alien.

Nothing much to speak of happens for at least the first 30 minutes, and that in a way is the secret of the film's success: the audience has been nervously peering round every corner for so long that by the time the eponymous beast claims its first victim, the release of pent-up anxiety is all the more effective. Although Sigourney Weaver ultimately takes centre-stage, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. The remarkably low-tech effects still look good (better in many places than the CGI of the sequels), while the nightmarish quality of H.R. Giger's bio-mechanical creature and set design is enhanced by camerawork that tantalises by what it doesn't reveal.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. Aliens - Special Edition [1986] [DVD]
    Sigourney Weaver
    4.6 out of 5 stars 237
    DVD
    £3.31 Amazon Prime
  2. Alien 3 - The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1992]
    Sigourney Weaver
    3.9 out of 5 stars 105
    DVD
    £5.05 Amazon Prime
  3. Alien Resurrection [1997] [DVD]
    Sigourney Weaver
    3.4 out of 5 stars 97
    DVD
    £1.36 Amazon Prime
  4. Predator - Single Disc Edition [1987] [DVD]
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    4.4 out of 5 stars 401
    DVD
    £3.54 Amazon Prime
  5. Predator 2 (2 Disc Special Edition) [1990] [DVD]
    Danny Glover
    4.0 out of 5 stars 128
    DVD
    £7.99 Amazon Prime
  6. John Carpenter's The Thing [DVD] [1982]
    Kurt Russell
    4.7 out of 5 stars 355
    DVD
    £2.99 Amazon Prime
Next

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsSciFi Horror masterpiece
By still searching TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 30 Nov. 2013
Format: DVD
What more is there to say about Scott's masterpiece that hasn't already been said? Not a lot I suspect. Basically, it's `an old dark house' murder mystery but set aboard a monstrous spacecraft, `Nostromo', returning to Earth from the farther reaches of the galaxy laden with 20,000,000 tonnes of mineral ores from distant planets. The inhabitants are in suspended animation allowing them to survive the equally monstrous periods of time involved in traversing such mind numbing distances. In the opening scene we, the ghostly viewers travel through the vast ship along empty corridors, accompanied by the almost subliminal sounds of the ship's engines and machinery, until we reach the life support chamber in which the crew sleep unsuspectingly. There is one jarring moment here: no-one else is on board and we, the omniscient viewers, do not have to open doors through which to travel and yet, in order to enter the chamber in which the crew are ensconced in their life support systems, doors slide open with the faintest of sounds as if air has entered with us, and then close behind us! It's a minor thing but jarring none the less!

Slowly, within their life support pods, the crew begins to stir and the second in command, Kane (John Hurt) is the first to awaken from his enforced slumbers. The pod canopies open. He sits up, slowly opens his eyes and then gets up. Gradually, the others begin to show signs of life. Cut to the next scene in which the crew is at breakfast sharing cereals and coffee and chit-chatting about mundane things like bonuses, which is a particular `beef' with maintenance engineer, Parker (Yaphet Kotto), and his side kick, Brett (Harry Dean Stanton).Read more ›
Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsbestof all the aliens is this original version IMO a ...
By bkkbob on 8 Sept. 2015
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
bestof all the aliens is this original version IMO a classic now ofcourse but i think only fault lies in the fact that with that beast roaming around now way would i have gone back for that darn cat
Comment 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent
By Gaffer on 5 Jun. 2004
Format: DVD
The director's cut of this seminal sci-fi film is only slightly longer than the theatrical release.

Notable inclusions are: the whole crew listening to the garbled SOS signal (very chilling), Ripley getting punched/slapped in a fight with Lambert because she wouldn't let the investigating party back on bord (quarantine rules), and the infamous Dallas scene where he is coccooned as either food / host material (but without dialogue).

The only problem with this last scene is that it has been argued that it tends to break up the action and suspense that has been building as Ripley messes around with Nostromo's self destruct/ runs from the alien...but I think it's paced very well.

Despite this though, there's not much to choose between both versions.

This is a visually remastered (the film's original negative has undergone some digital cleanup and restoration) attempt with DTS so it is also an excellent reference DVD with which to show off your home cinema system (the opening shots as they orbit the planet are great).

The only dissapointment is the exclusion of "original trailers" from the extra's, which is there on the "standard" single disc edition (although, maybe I simply couldn't find them :D ).

Overall though, this still doesn't detract from an excellent dvd release that includes a whole host of other great extra's like HRGiger art....

Enjoy.
Comment 9 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsUNCUT VERSION OF ALIEN 1979 (STRONG LANGUAGE MISSING) SEARCH?
By monster room on 18 Jan. 2015
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Don`t have this definitive edition version of the movie but does anybody out there know of where or what dvd contains the original uncut dialogue version of alien 1979? I seem to remember watching this as a kid on a VHS video in the early 80`s and there was lot more strong language(swearing) in the version I saw, especially the scene when the android malfunctions and attacks Ripley and the black guy. This is a truly great movie but banned movie cuts made by whitehouse back in the day have ruined it. Surprising enough it had a lot more impact with the strong language left in. Here`s hoping a copy still exists?
Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsLucas Take Note
By Lee on 11 Mar. 2004
Format: DVD
Quite frankly, this is the ultimate in customer care. A number of us do not want Alien 3 & 4, so did not buy the box set. by releasing them seperatley, you get to buy just the ones you want.
A very nice feature is being able to choose between the original issue of the film or the new version. George Lucas, take note of this with your imminent Star Wars releases please.
The remastered print is amazing - visual and audio quality superb.
The extras are too numerous to list here - an outstanding example of how to reissue a classic film properly.
1 Comment 33 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsALIEN - A HORROR CLASSIC
By A Customer on 17 Mar. 2004
Format: DVD
When I realised that Alien was going to be released on DVD, fully restored and with brilliant extras, I didn't delay in purchasing it. Either should you. This film is often described as Ridley Scott's Fright Machine - an endless foray of atmosphere, startling images and genuinely terrifying moments. The DVD features give the film itself justice, it includes great insights into the production of the film and Scott's commentary is really interesting and actually helpful to the audience. The disc also includes some fantastic deleted scenes - most notably a scene where Riply encounters Dallas cocooned and is forced to burn him.
The two sequels which followed this classic (lets forget the abyssmal Alien Resurrection shall we) were fantastic, but don't match the horror and sheer ferocity of this. The film made stars of Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott and became a milestone of the horror genre at the time. It is without doubt one of the best films of the productive 1970's, and still haunts audiences today. I'll give you two reasons why you should buy this. Number One - to witness the scene on DVD where Dallas is chased by Alien in the the air vent, boy that's scary! Number Two - it would fit into any proper DVD collection out there. Enjoy.
Comment 3 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
› See all 5 discussions...

Look for similar items by category

Feedback