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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    Psycho. Obviously.
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    Need more Psycho love.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RUBE View Post
    As much as I love Alien I almost didn't vote for it here because of the "but it is sci-fi" sentiment. Then I thought about why Alien is a horror and changed my mind. I think part of the reason people don't think of it as horror is because the sequel Aliens definitely moved from horror into the action genre. It is also because it is not your normal horror but a psycho-sexual horror that takes more reflection to recognize.

    First it helps to know that much of what is in Alien is based on H.R. Giger's art. I assume because this is a Stephen King forum that many of you have seen his work. It can be very sexual and very disturbing at the same time. The alien itself was based on one of Giger's drawings in which the monster literally had a penis for a head. Why I point this out is because the horror is only classic boogie man on the surface. The real horror is the metaphor of sexual assault. The producers are trying to draw on people's sexual fears, specifically oral rape (the face-hugger) and the subconscious fear man has of how he would hold up if he was the one that had to be pregnant and suffer through labor especially a pregnancy resulting from a rape (chestbuster scene.). Hell, most of the characters die because the alien uses its phallic-symbol of a tongue to penetrate them, normally in the face. I am not just pulling this out of thin air either. There have been numerous articles and papers about it and Ridley himself seems to confirm it.

    Anyway, this is all crazy stuff that belongs more in the horror genre than in sci-fi, similar to the way that most slasher movies are about sexual power and how the female protagonist must take the masculinity (his stabbing weapon) away from the villian and use it against him.
    Agree with pretty much everything on here. In fact, I'm a little upset with myself for not mentioning that cliff note of Ridley Scott saying that he made this film in large part so that men too could feel the helplessness of being overwhelmed by an aggressor.

    The entire film is teeming with symbolism and parallels; H.R Giger was chosen for a reason. Such a rich film.

    And we're tied at 15! This is the closest movie final we've ever had!

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    We need more votes so it doesn't end in a tie
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    tied at 15!!!!

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    Thirty people voted. That's gotta be the most in this tournament. Will we get a 31st?

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    ALIEN for the Win!!!!!

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    Let's go, Alien!

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    As much as I like Alien, Psycho is a much better film.

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    I saw both films around the same age and had to vote for the one that scared me more. Sorry Psycho fans...voter 31 has broken the tie.


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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    As much as I like Alien, Psycho is a much better film.
    I think they are in entirely different leagues. Psycho losing to Alien is for me the source of continuous stupefaction

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    I love Alien but there were a handful of films nixed in the first round (darn one vote allowed) I think are more deserving of the title. But maybe that's just me as when it comes to judging a film I take my love for it out of it. There are some films I positively love and have seen countless times but I can leave them out when it comes to ranking...my top ten films of the 2000s are hardly my favourite films as some of my favourites like Almost Famous and Punch Drunk Love didn't make my own cut lol. And I LOVE Alien, I grew up on those films and they introduced me basically to horror and sci-fi...when most kids wanted to be the Power Rangers for Halloween...I wanted to be Corporal Hicks lol.

    I almost want to re-do the horror movie tournament as it was but with multiple votes allowed just to see if we'd still get this same result because I do not think we would.
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    How is Alien leading now. What is this madness? Psycho is such an iconic and classic film!

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    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    Psycho losing to Alien is for me the source of continuous stupefaction
    Amen.
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    And now its leading by 2. Two more days, we'll see if it can gain a lead again. It's been a tight race.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mystima View Post
    I saw both films around the same age and had to vote for the one that scared me more.
    Same here. I've always seen Psycho as a fascinating character study of a man unable to escape the abuse suffered at the hands of his mother. As a horror film though, I came away much more impressed by Alien. Some of the stuff that goes down in the movie still gives me the creeps.

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    Ian Holms' character trying to strangle Ripley while his robotic head is still semi attached to his body is nuts.

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    Alien for me, most definitely. Psycho was a bit before my time, I still haven't seen it "properly". The parts I did see just didn't do anything for me.. and the music was kind of annoying more than anything. Sorry Jean Though I thought the Hitchcock movie recently on the making of Psycho was interesting (though I missed the end as the plane landed).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roden View Post
    Psycho was a bit before my time
    how old do you think bears are?

    most of the films I love were "before my time"... ditto music and books

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    How is Alien leading now. What is this madness? Psycho is such an iconic and classic film!
    But it's not all that scary. Plenty of films from it's time that were much creepier. Heck, Rebecca was much creepier. There are plenty of modern day films that will be considered classic and iconic one day too, doesn't make them scary though. Also, the shower scene in Psycho is as iconic as the dinner scene in Alien imo, probably less so because 'guy with knife' just isn't as traumatizing as 'alien life form exploding out of someone's chest in gory fashion' lol

    I was also thinking today, if Psycho can make it to the final with a shitty remake...where is Cape Fear whose remake was as good as the original? Max Cady = far creepier and scary than Norman Bates.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mattrick View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    How is Alien leading now. What is this madness? Psycho is such an iconic and classic film!
    But it's not all that scary. Plenty of films from it's time that were much creepier. Heck, Rebecca was much creepier. There are plenty of modern day films that will be considered classic and iconic one day too, doesn't make them scary though. Also, the shower scene in Psycho is as iconic as the dinner scene in Alien imo, probably less so because 'guy with knife' just isn't as traumatizing as 'alien life form exploding out of someone's chest in gory fashion' lol
    Oh, no you didn't!!! The shower scene was way much more infuential to movie making than the dinner scene in "Alien. Pure fact, not really open to discussion. Go research and tell me I'm wrong.
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    if Psycho loses to Alien, bears will never be the same again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    if Psycho loses to Alien, bears will never be the same again
    As will "Wizards".
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