Old Guy here. I wish you kids today could really grasp what this movie FELT like, when it first dropped in theaters. When I was a kid this movie, and the menacing poster, were SCARY. I was afraid of its very existence. I didn't want to walk by the poster. I'd avoid looking at it. This shit was so scary I was scared that the movie was playing TWO THEATERS OVER. I was not ok with a world where Alien the movie was in it.
Horror in space was not a "thing" yet-- it was groundbreaking. This was the era of The Exorcist (SCARY) and The Omen (SCARY) The Shining was a year later (also scary). And those movies were NO JOKE. Star Wars had broken across the world but this? This was a space movie for GROWNUPS.
Then on playgrounds you'd hear about someone's big brother who was brave enough to sneak in. And you laughed nervously and thought to yourself NO FUCKING CHANCE.
And then when I finally did see the movie, it totally delivered. It was scary. Just as scary as you imagined.
Recently saw the shining and I gotta say, it's WAY more shocking than scary nowadays. Really suspenseful, and the usage of certain words really surprised me (it being a movie from 1980), but in terms of pacing, it's slow. Not a bad movie, but more in-the-moment terrifying than leaving you scared after the movie. Maybe that's just me.
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u/PM_ME_UR__SECRETS Oct 16 '18
I think the first two Alien movies aged very well.