ALIEN / ALIENS

Surely Ridley Scott’s 1979 science fiction horror movie Alien has to rank as one of, if not the best, monster-from-outerspace-movies made to date. And with the current state of big-movie-making it will probably maintain that status for a very long time.

One of the few films in the genre to even come close to matching the suspenseful, hermetic, nightmarish quality of Alien is its respectable 1986 sequel, Aliens.