Jim Sterling: The mark of a truly effective piece of horror lies not in what it does, but in what it doesn't do. A piece of art that can terrify you without even having to show anything, that can make you afraid without a monster, without something leaping out of the shadows, has accomplished something rare and powerful. Alien, the movie that spawned one of the most inspirational science fiction franchises in history, knew this well. For all the moments that we actually see the titular Alien, its those moments where we don't know where it is, where there's no trace of the extraterrestrial killer, that are the most fear inducing.
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