This effect is, of course, lessened when everyone and their mother knows what traditional xenomorphs look like in today's era.
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Though you never get a full look at its body, just bits and pieces. The final transformation, of course, is the full-grown xenomorph. First you see the facehugger, then in the next scene you might see it evolve the chestbuster. They're also very clever in that, almost, every instance where you see the creature, it has evolved in appearance from the previous scene it appeared in. Showing very little of the alien allows the audience to make up an image of what it looks like in their own mind, this adds more tension and suspense to the scene where the alien is actually shown.
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And that was by design, Ridley Scott made the movie this way, not like in Jaws where the shark not being shown until the end was done more out of necessity. I think one of the benefits with this approach is that you can build so much dread out of showing very little of the actual alien itself. What'd I think of the movie? I'll be straight up, I don't think I've seen a horror movie do so much with so little. IFC, sadly, has commercials, but they never edit movies for content or time, so this was as close as I was gonna get to watching the original cut without actually spending the money to buy it. So I had to settle for recording it on DVR off of IFC. I contemplated getting the Blu-Ray for this and Aliens, but I just can't afford it right now.
Honestly, I've been looking for this movie for months. Friday the 13th has twice as many movies as the Alien franchise and it has made less than half of the money. Compare that to Friday the 13th which, they've grossed $465 million worldwide across TWELVE movies (Freddy vs Jason is included). It might even be the most successful horror film franchise of all time, as, across six films, they've managed to gross $1.1 billion worldwide (and Alien Covenant just came out). Alien is, after all, one of the more financially successful horror franchises in history. But Alien is just one of those movies that, even without watching it, you know of it by reputation. I'm 29 now, so I don't even wanna think of how far back I'd have to go if I actually did watch this movie. I'm certain I have, but if I did then it must have been over 20 years ago. If I'm gonna be honest, I have absolutely no recollection of ever watching this movie in its entirety. And many people would also say that that list wouldn't be complete without Alien. The Exorcist, Evil Dead 2, Carpenter's The Thing are on those list, if I were to compile my own. It doesn't even matter if you end up liking the movie or not, but it's something that you must see. The point that I'm trying to make is the fact that there are movies that every horror geek should watch, at least, once in their lifetime. If they were then that market would have been over-saturated by this point, as if it wasn't already saturated in the mainstream. But the one difference is the fact that hardcore superhero fans aren't seeking out low-budget, independent superhero flicks.
Superhero flicks are the closest thing possible to this in terms of rabid fanbases. The horror genre also has its opportunists trying to cash in on a dedicated fanbase, who will watch just about anything for their horror fix, and they purposely put out shitty movies knowing that, at least a few people out there in the world will give their film a shot because it's a horror flick. There's really no other genre like it in terms of its dedicated fanbase, who will wade through oceans of shit in order to find a modern classic of the genre. I don't think I have to make it obvious to you all out there that the horror genre is, probably, my favorite movie genre.
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