I don't really watch movies at all anymore, let alone horror flicks. I used to absolutely love them in the 80's and 90's. The costumes, makeup and creations through applied moldings to make creatures less human and more alien was so great. Now? It's CGI and I can't watch that crap
Here are my favorites....
1.
Alien: I like the foreboding atmosphere on the large alien space ship where the pods were. Just the idea that the bones of a massive alien skeleton with burst rib cage was eerie in itself. That ship looked ancient, which makes me wonder how long our parasitic aliens live? The atmosphere on Ripley's ship was also very eerie. Aside from the little version of the alien, emerging from the crew member's chest and skittering across the floor, they don't show the grown alien hardly at all. They use suspense mostly
2.
JAWS: Another movie where suspense was key. This movie was considered to be so scary, the some were afraid to swim in
lakes, let alone at ocean beaches! All of the actors in this one were excellent, including Brucie (mechanical shark). Famous line from the movie: "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
3.
Aliens: Same atmosphere as the original, but we all know what the alien looks like, but now the use a swarm of them to engage with a crack force of intergalactic marines (oo-rah). Ripley fights the giant Momma alien with an industrial transformer outfit, but Momma is hard to kill.
Famous line: "Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure."
4.
Event Horizon: scary as he77. Mixes the supernatural with science fiction. I was actually disturbed by this movie.
5.
THE THING: The one I'm talking about was made by John Carpenter. Like Memento mentioned earlier, it's a psychological mind f*ck. An alien shape shifter takes the form of a trusted crew member, killing most of them. I really Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley in this one.
The kicker is that all of these horror flicks involve aliens, of which
@Merlin and I don't believe!
