Light-years ahead of it's time. A different species of a movie.

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2012)

Entering a decade where John Carpenter's Halloween would take great influence, and leaving the past few decades of B-movie sci-fi monster flicks, Alien was astonishingly ahead of it's time in how it portrayed science fiction monsters in movies. Possessing special effects not only amazingly advanced, but inventively advanced as well, this film Impeccably utilizes the darkness of space and shadows to build a claustrophobic, dank, and heart-stoppingly terrifying vibe and atmosphere. Being as artistic in its minimal philosophic depth as much as it is in its design, Alien to this day is the most original take on the idea of monster movies, space movies, and science fiction movies in general. Giving an antagonist similar in appearance to Godzilla the tactics similar to those of Michael Myers, by shrinking the roaming scale of science fiction monster movies from a large city, to just around the corner in a hallway. It's incredible how this film could make something as wide and empty as space feel inescapably close and narrow, and that is still as shocking as ever to this day.