Barbara Gips, who helped sell Ridley Scott's classic horror sci-fi thriller Alien to unsuspecting moviegoers with her now-legendary tagline "In space no one can hear you scream," has died. She was 89.

There are countless great taglines in film history, but the original Alien has arguably the single best one: "In space no one can hear you scream." It's frankly as iconic as the Xenomorph itself, and ...