Comments on: Alien is the Scariest Movie of All Time https://www.isegoria.net/2011/11/alien-is-the-scariest-movie-of-all-time/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2011/11/alien-is-the-scariest-movie-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-371420 Isegoria Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:50:50 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27089#comment-371420 I found that the horror movies on the list were either quite recent or quite old.

Anyway, I was aware of Alien from a young age, but I didn’t watch it until I was an adult, after I’d watched the sequel, Aliens, repeatedly, and the original certainly qualifies as a scary film, even though, as an adult, I didn’t find myself looking under the bed or in the closet for face-huggers.

]]> By: Doctor Pat https://www.isegoria.net/2011/11/alien-is-the-scariest-movie-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-371381 Doctor Pat Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:26:47 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27089#comment-371381 I’m not too impressed with that list. I agree with the comment that this is a list made by people in their thirties and forties, and this means they’ll choose movies from about 30 years ago, when they were kids. They saw the movies when they were kids, and they remember how scary they were. Newer movies, they saw when they were older, so didn’t get as scared. Older movies, they just notice how lame the special effects are.

My list includes Jaws 2, which I find much scarier than even Jaws 1. I saw J2 when it first came out, I was young, I got scared. I didn’t go back and see J1 until I was older, and so it doesn’t impress me as much. Same thing for Alien and Aliens.

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