Yes — Alien is consistently scary. As a conspiracy film, it scored 8.0/10 for fear, 10.0/10 for atmosphere, and 9.5/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in Alien?

Alien has 11 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like Alien?

Alien is tagged as conspiracy, cosmic horror, body horror on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Alien

1979 · R · 1h 57m

In space no one can hear you scream.

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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Curator Score

9.5

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Built on atmosphere.

Jump scares

Alien has 11 jump scares. Compare counts

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9.5Overall

Fear8.0

Gore6.0

Atmosphere10.0

Intensity8.0

Genres

science-fictionhorrorthriller

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Details

Budget$11M

Box office$203.6M

Directed by

Ridley Scott

Written by

Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

Cinematography

Derek Vanlint

Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Starring

Tom Skerritt as Dallas · Sigourney Weaver as Ripley · Veronica Cartwright as Lambert · Harry Dean Stanton as Brett · John Hurt as Kane · Ian Holm as Ash · Yaphet Kotto as Parker · Bolaji Badejo as Alien

Production

Brandywine Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

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