{
  "name": "Alien",
  "year": 1979,
  "runtime": 116,
  "categories": [
    "horror",
    "sci-fi"
  ],
  "release-date": "1979-05-25",
  "director": "Ridley Scott",
  "writer": [
    "Dan O'Bannon",
    "Ronald Shusett"
  ],
  "actors": [
    "Tom Skerritt",
    "Sigourney Weaver",
    "Veronica Cartwright",
    "Harry Dean Stanton",
    "John Hurt",
    "Ian Holm",
    "Yaphet Kotto",
    "Bolaji Badejo",
    "Helen Horton"
  ],
  "storyline": "After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun."
}