Aliens (1986)

"We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly."

- Newt

Aliens is a 1986 sci-fi/horror film directed by James Cameron and is the first sequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien. A Special Edition of Aliens was released in 1992 on laserdisc and VHS that restored seventeen minutes of deleted footage. Along with the other sequels, Aliens was packaged as part of the nine-disc Aliens Quadrology DVD collection. The plot of Aliens continues the saga of Ellen Ripley, sole survivor of the previous film who has now been thrust fifty-seven years into the future and must return to the planet where she first encountered the dangerous alien species. Accompanying her on this journey are an elite squad of soldiers known as the Colonial Marines. This time however, Ripley doesn't have just one alien menace to contend with, but hundreds.

Notes & Trivia

 * Domestic gross in the US for Aliens was $85,160,248.


 * With the exception of Hudson and Gorman, the first initials of the other members of the Colonial Marines are the same as the first initial of the respective actor's name.


 * Aliens is one of the few films that received a 100% fresh tomato-rating at the Rotten Tomatoes film review site.


 * First professional film work for cinematographer Adrian Biddle.


 * In the "Epidemiology" episode of the TV sit-com Community, two of the main characters dressed up as characters from Aliens for their school's Halloween party. Abed Nadir dressed up as a Xenomorph and Troy Barnes created his own Loader costume - the same device that Ellen Ripley used to fight the alien Queen.