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<blockquote data-quote="Jet Shield" data-source="post: 6211518" data-attributes="member: 6750580"><p>A lot about what made the movie (at the time) scary/suspenseful has been lost through sheer exposure. These days everyone knows what the alien looks like and what it's capable of, at least more-or-less. Even people who have never seen the movies recognize the alien when they see it. When the movie released, that wasn't the case.</p><p></p><p>While filming, the alien was a guy in a rubber suit. In order to keep it from <em>looking</em> like a guy in a rubber suit, they intentionally kept most of it in shadow. The audience had to use their own imagination to fill in most of what the creature looked like. That was a masterful technique for building the terror/suspence factor. People, when their imagination is allowed (or forced) to run wild, are very good at inventing horrifying details to frighten themselves. Just knowing what the alien looks like in advance is enough to move the movie from the "terrifying" column to the "meh" column, because your own imagination isn't in overdrive trying to fill in the blanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jet Shield, post: 6211518, member: 6750580"] A lot about what made the movie (at the time) scary/suspenseful has been lost through sheer exposure. These days everyone knows what the alien looks like and what it's capable of, at least more-or-less. Even people who have never seen the movies recognize the alien when they see it. When the movie released, that wasn't the case. While filming, the alien was a guy in a rubber suit. In order to keep it from [I]looking[/I] like a guy in a rubber suit, they intentionally kept most of it in shadow. The audience had to use their own imagination to fill in most of what the creature looked like. That was a masterful technique for building the terror/suspence factor. People, when their imagination is allowed (or forced) to run wild, are very good at inventing horrifying details to frighten themselves. Just knowing what the alien looks like in advance is enough to move the movie from the "terrifying" column to the "meh" column, because your own imagination isn't in overdrive trying to fill in the blanks. [/QUOTE]
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