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Alien Directors Cut (1979) movie poster

Film Profile · ALIEN-DIRECTORS-CUT

Alien Directors Cut

1979Horror / Sci-FiHorror1h 57m
Detections45,321
Night Frames69%
Dialogue WPM34
Dom. Emotionneutral
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-42% vs genre
33.8/100

Bright

Action Intensity-92% vs genre
4/100

Moderate

People Density-98% vs genre
1.0/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
78% indoor

Indoor · 77.8% indoors

Object Diversity
107/100

High

Pacing
0.9 cuts/min

Methodical · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

Six axes overlaid against the average for this film's primary genre.

DARKNESS74ACTION41DIALOGUE29PEOPLE31VEHICLES1VISUAL32
Alien Directors CutHorror avg · 8 titles

THE ARC

Motion & brightness across the runtime

Hover to scrub. Spikes mark high-action sequences. Dips reveal quiet stretches.

Motion Intensity
Brightness
People
0:00 → 117m
02550751000m29m58m87m117m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

Three-act split — how the visual tone shifts from setup through climax.

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates35%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates39%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates34%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

The single most-intense minute and longest stretch of stillness.

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
55:07
motion 54/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 2768.2s at 7:05
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

Frame-sampled palette — temperature, saturation, and how the look shifts across the runtime.

Temperatureneutral
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled5,593
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#4E4440
32.1%
#777372
20.3%
#173753
16.8%
#9DA6AC
14.2%
#D0DADF
9.0%
#326A9C
7.6%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Day scenes
#D4DFE6
#ABB0B9
#756C6F
#4F91CD
#E6C471
Empty scenes
#5D473E
#6D7989
#A49F9B
#C8D0D3
#224461
Night scenes
#494442
#123758
#647280
#9AA8B1
#D4E2E7
Outdoor scenes
#5D5B5C
#463B36
#7E8892
#153C60
#C0CBD0
Romantic scenes
#3D3E43
#666462
#8C9092
#B6C3CC
#146AB5
Vibrant scenes
#174678
#2967A3
#7E4929
#4297CE
#D4A141

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

The four most-present objects — full breakdown with categories in Deep Dive.

Armored vehicle4%
Poster1%
Tv4%
Cup2%
+ 6 more · person in 62% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Alien Directors Cut (1979)

Insights surfaced by machine analysis of every frame, audio track, and object.

  • Alien Directors Cut beats 5 out of 7 Horror films in darkness, outscoring its peers by an average of 18 points to a genre standard of 56 out of 100.
  • 1,486 unique people spotted (62% of frames)
  • "ash" is said 16 times — once every 7.3 minutes.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 11 min 13 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • 26 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 273 seconds.
  • Only 2.8% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • The 5 most intense moments all happen within 7 seconds of each other.
  • At 125 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 1,240 unique words spoken out of 4,007 total — a vocabulary richness of 30.9%.
  • AI detected 107 unique object types across 45,321 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 165 unique tvs spotted (4% of frames)
  • Armored vehicles appear in 4% of frames
  • 135 unique cups spotted (2% of frames)
  • 105 unique chairs spotted (2% of frames)
  • 34 unique microwaves spotted (1% of frames)
  • 50 unique bowls spotted (1% of frames)
  • Posters appear in 1% of frames
  • 36 unique dogs spotted (1% of frames)
  • 29 unique ties spotted (1% of frames)
  • Features 344 dog appearances
  • Only 29% of this film is spoken dialogue
  • Contains 26 profanities (0.2 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 11 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • 29% of frames are close-ups
  • Only 2.8% of face detections are smiling
  • The film's emotional journey ends on a neutral note

DIALOGUE

Words across the runtime

Volume and pace at a glance. Top vocabulary and per-act WPM in Deep Dive.

29% dialogue71% silence / score
4,007
total words
34
words / min
26 · 0.6%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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