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Generic and narrative values in Alien. In this essay I will discuss the generic and narrative values in Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, Alien. I will show how the film is typical of a horror / sci-fi hybrid and in some parts how it breaks the rules of these genres. The scene I will discuss is the final sequenced from the film in which the main character, Ellen Ripley attempts to turn on the ships self destruct system and then escapes the ship using the escape pod. It starts after two members of the ships crew are killed by the alien leaving Ripley alone to escape the ship, the fact that there was a 'last girl' in this film is very typical of horror, although Ripley isn't the virginal character that is usually left to fight the monster, that character died several minutes earlier, which is unconventional for horror. Isolation is something so...

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