For more than thirty years audiences have been simultaneously captivated & appalled as the spaceship Nostromo is invaded & its crew stalked by a terrifying parasitic creature. From the gore of the infant alien bursting from Kanes chest to the mounting claustrophobia as Ripley discovers the monster has followed her into the escape shuttle Alien is a chilling masterpiece. Now ALIEN VAULT opens a portal into the making of this legendary film tracing its path from embryonic concept to fully-fledged box office phenomenon. Featured herein are director Ridley Scotts own annotated storyboards Polaroids & script pages; the elegant but disturbing concept artwork of H.R. Giger; sketches & construction blueprints for the Nostromo; costume designs by Moebius; a treasure trove of never-before-seen photographs of the cast & crew; & ten meticulously reproduced artefacts enclosed in vellum envelopes for readers to remove & examine more closely. Fully authorized & illustrated throughout ALIEN VAULT is the ultimate tribute to a movie that changed cinema for ever.