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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1191308" data-attributes="member: 3570">Well, like Roger, I can only relay my own opinion as well.  It definitely isn't scary in the "turn all the lights on in your house when you get home" kind of way, but its VERY intense.  And even though its an obvious remake of the original, the formula for this one is actually more evocative of Aliens, if that's your cup of tea.Like Aliens, it starts with a drifter who survived the monster being picked up, the good guys wanting to take the survivor back, an evil "corporation" of sorts that the protagonists go to for help but actually just wants to cultivate the monster, a "kill me" sequence, and a couple other parallels that would be a little too spoiler intensive to reveal.  But yep, very similar to Aliens.In some ways TCM is even better at maintaining its intensity, because at no point does Jessica Biel suck it up and "go Rambo" like Sigourney Weaver at the end, instead everything she does she does out of shear desperation and terror.  So in that sense its closer to the original Alien.  But it has the juggernaut elements of the original Terminator as well, I don't know, I've just never experienced visceral thrills like the Alien or Terminator films in a slasher flick before.But the characters don't have a protector from the future or a company of marines to defend them, and you have the "inspired by actual human psychosis" element reminding you that you can't write the whole thing off as something that could never happen (freakishly unlikely, but possible nonetheless).  Throw in some great cinematography, fine supporting performances, and, well, Jessica Biel.  Just a cool, well done movie.I'm not saying its better than Terminator or Aliens or anything; cyborgs and sleek black aliens will always be cooler than inbred hillbillies, but they did do a really good job, and its the first slasher flick that I might actually pick up when it hits DVD.And if anyone's keeping score, I've seen four of the "Halloween" films, five or six "Friday the 13th" films, half the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, all three "Scream's", both "I Know What You Did Last Summer's", and "Urban Legend."  Of all of them, the first Halloween, the first Nightmare on Elm Street, and the first Scream are the only movies I would actually consider "good."  The new TCM beats all three by a longshot.</blockquote>

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