haunted house movie in space, created the genre

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2001)

Only two movies have ever given me as an adult nightmares afterwards-the Alien and the Exorcist. Slow building suspense with little actual gratuitous gore with a pulse bounding ending. The ship, the Nostromo, has a realistic, lived in look about it. Very credible character sketches with realistic group dynamics amongst the crew members.A great heroine role model, Ripley, was created.
This was the beginning of a successful series of spinoffs, all are at least worthy of seeing, while only Aliens the immediate successor is a top notch production. Unfortunately, the spin off movies focused on subsequent events of the aliens not their mysterious past.
I give the movie a 10.