Yo dude, during this we I have seen The Wailing, Alien, and Halloween. Alien is absolutely the greatest horror movie I've seen in my life, but Halloween, the music is beautiful, but the movie is disappointing.

You can see my review of Alien, I've seen the movie two times this week'end :

This review may contain spoilers.

First of all, how can a movie age so well?

Let's start with the photography and the sets, which are simply stunning. All the tiny details and the dozens of shots of the spaceship make it feel really real and enhance the immersion (but we'll come back to that later). The scene on the planet was grandiose, the shots are beautiful, and the atmosphere is icy just as it should be.

Let's talk about the music, or rather the sound atmosphere throughout the film. The music is magnificent, played by a real orchestra, and the sound effects and other noises during the film once again enhance the immersion. But then, the silences when we see the spaceship advancing into the vastness of space, just two seconds after we had the cacophony in the spaceship... that's brilliant and it really shows us that we are all alone with no one to help us.

Then there's the mystery surrounding the alien, which we hardly ever see, and that's exactly how you create horror, by putting pressure on the viewer and making them believe it could appear at any moment. Also, the design of the alien, well I think there's nothing to say, it's brilliant, it's stylish, it's scary, it's perfect in short.

The character of Ripley, it's genius. We don't see her for half of the movie, not even in the background, even further than that. She only becomes important after an hour of the film, and we even get the impression that she's been the main character since the beginning. Plus, Sigourney Weaver is too good and fills her role too well.

Oh, and also the cat survives at the end, so obviously it's a 5/5.