Click here – it starts at 1.52 and ends at 2.15. Alien is a fantastic sci-fi horror movie, and it features many unnerving scenes (the Space Jockey is creepy), but there's something I find so unsettling about the empty seats and reflective helmets — almost like they're haunted, especially with the music. Am I the only one?
by Neat-Bend-1190
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Love how it’s shot, the reflection of the computer screen in the face shields. The sound of the computer going through its transmission or whatever it is doing. The tranquility…calm before the storm. Wakey..wakey.
You’re not alone …… it’s the absence that makes it creepy. Those seats look like people should be there, and the fact that they’re not makes it feel wrong
yeah that scene just gets under your skin doesn’t it
Well in the trailer kind of. It does that to set u up for how inactive this ship has been until the crew is awoken
It’s crazy how that playlist is basically the entire movie with an intro and outro on each clip. One could use sponsor block to edit out each intro and outro and watch the entire move in 4K HDR.
Not only is it eerie, this haunted-seeming ship’s automation which leads to the human crew receiving a new directive is also a foreshadowing of the reveal that there’s a secret automaton among them who has corporate interests as his prime motivation –the dangerous android Ash.
Everything about the original Alien is absent in the sequels. There is both a greater feeling of being alone but there is also the alien itself is barely present in the entire film. It’s lurking. Unlike most horror films where the danger is present, in Alien the danger is not knowing where the alien is.
Alien at it’s core is almost Lovecraftian horror. Except for the last like minute it essentially is.
The opening isolation helps reinforce it. Things are happening without the crews control. Also reminds me a lot of 2001.
I saw Alien in the theater – parents dragged me to see it. Incredibly unnerving experience.
The sound design is so good in these older films. I can’t tell if it’s diegetic or if the foley artist was just giving their best game but it’s sells the quiet emptiness of the ship.
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it’s the quiet tension that gets you, like the ship itself feels alive and wrong
One of my all time favourites. It’s a shame they didn’t make any more films after Aliens and that Aliens was the last one and that no more were made.
I really wish they never explained the Space Jockey.
A brilliant build up of tension, Scott was at the very top of his game with Alien.
I just went back through all the franchise and was amazed how well the original held up!
It has been decades since I’ve watched it, but the ultra grainy VHS version is so burnt in my mind, seeing such a clean and high resolution version of the film makes me want to track it down and rewatch it