What is the most terrifying alien film? That should be an easy question to answer, right? Of course, there are some iconic ones.
Will anything ever beat Ridley Scott’s iconic Alien, where we first see the creature burst out of John Hurt’s chest in a geyser of blood? Who could forget the first time they saw M.
Night Shyamalan’s Signs and the scene where Merril (Joaquin Phoenix) first sees the alien on the TV? There are huge ’80s classics like The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers that are rightly held high, both remakes of ’50s classics that acted as allegories for the Red Scare.
Then there are a few underrated modern films like Dark Skies and Phoenix Forgotten, which largely went under the radar, but feature some intense cosmic horror like the Ezekiel Wheel and up-close and personal encounters with the shadowed figures of the aliens.
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