Creepy as hell...

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2002)

I didn't see this movie in its entirety until I was in college. Home on break, I saw it on HBO(starting at 1 am). If you haven't seen this movie before, and you're thinking of watching it, by all means, do so alone at 1am. Horror movie directors now NEED to see this movie- the way for the first 40 minutes nothing happens, and those are 40 of the most nerve-wracking minutes I've ever seen. Though, it has lost some of its effect through repeated viewing. A few scenes it's real obvious the alien is a guy in a suit, but they do a good job of hiding this by keeping it off camera for more than a second or two in all but one scene.
All in all, a great creepy movie, followed by one good and 2 terrible sequels.