It's 30 years old and it's STILL scary.

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2009)

I remember the first time I ever saw "Alien". It was back in 2003 on Halloween. I took the day off from school and my dad and I went to see it at Union Station in D.C. It scared the hell outta me, especially that chestburster scene, the time where what was then left of the Nostromo crew (Ripley, Parker, and Lambert) find out that Ash was actually a robot, and those couple times when the alien popped out and let out that extra-loud shriek.
It was really scary stuff, but I didn't scream.
I read that people screamed, gasped, shrieked back in '79 when the film was first out. I give it two big thumbs up.
I'm a classics guy. I know lots of classic movies. They're one thing that I've brought myself up on, and when I compare classics like "Alien" to some of the movies I've seen these days, it's pretty hard to enjoy today's movies because most of the time I don't really think they're fun or innovative. I make some exceptions, though.
It'd be great if 20th Century-Fox put the film out again for it's 30th anniversary, but that'd only mean more money for them.