Scary- One of the best

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2008)

Perhaps the scariest movies I've ever seen. John Carpenter really had it back then (we'll just forget about Ghosts of Mars and some of the other crap they've released more recently). Everything about this movie is why I haven't lost faith in American Film. Kurt Russell does an awesome job, and has a commanding presence, even if he's not your typical Ahnold type alien fighting hero. This movie is scary on multiple levels, visually (because Stan Winston rocked), psychologically, and it has that long term fear factor that still to this day (almost a full 10 years since I first saw this movie) scares the bejezus outta me (even if I haven't seen the movie in a long time- just looking back on it gives me the willies). This belongs in movie history as among the top 3 scariest movies ever created, but also, one of the best science fiction films ever made.