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In the second episode of Euan Foley’s series, From War to Peace: Aliens in the Last 50 Years of Cinema, Calum and Euan discuss Ridley Scott’s iconic 1979 horror-in-space, Alien. The discussion focuses on how Alien contrasts Close Encounters, the significance of gender in the film and its impact on cinema more generally, and how the alien design came into being and why it works so well. WARNING: Spoilers for Alien throughout.