A great movie

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2008)

Back then I'd of given it a 10, but today it gets a 9.
Wow, someone wrote a comment saying they saw it as a child and went to sleep!!! I saw this as a child and was scared into virtual paralysis by it, only the near and dear realization that it is "just a movie" keeping me from passing out from fright. Watching this again I was much less scared, but the pure unmitigated fear that is transmitted into your mind by some of the scenes took me back to my youth and I felt those stirrings in my memories, the reminders of that long ago fear being resurrected.
The thing that is required to make this movie work is imagination. We rarely see the alien so there is very little there to be scared of visually. The thought of the creature is what really scares the viewer. So if you are the type that is very literal and up front, this movie will do nothing for you. If you are the type that is more imaginative and perhaps a little paranoid, this movie will scare the hell out of you.