Alien (1979) is the first large-scale sci-fi horror film! Its cost is as high as 1 1 ten thousand dollars, just like Star Wars 1977! If "Star Wars" makes the whole sci-fi movie type get rid of the state of B-class movies, it is to make sci-fi movies evolve into commercial blockbusters with high investment and high income; Then Alien took science fiction/monster movies to a new height. (Note: 200 1 A Space Odyssey was not made according to the genre of science fiction, and its box office success was accidental. What makes the film industry and science fiction movies develop into commercial blockbusters is Star Wars. )

In IMDb, Alien is now ranked 52nd in the Top250-there were eight sci-fi movies before it, but none of them were sci-fi horror monster movies. In 2008, Alien ranked seventh in the sci-fi movie Top 10 released by AFI of American Film Academy. This selection was made by more than 65,438+0,500 filmmakers, film critics and historians. In the same year, Empire magazine selected 500 greatest films in film history according to more than 654.38+million readers, film critics and filmmakers, and Alien ranked 33rd. In 2002, the National Film Protection Agency of the United States included Alien in the collection list of the Library of Congress because of its "cultural, historical and aesthetic value".

We can say for sure that Alien is the greatest and best sci-fi horror film, and there is no one. Of course, it is also one of the greatest and best science fiction movies.