There's something specific about Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien that makes it such an enduring classic. Its focus on relatable, blue-collar characters, along with its lived-in and haunting vision of space travel, heightens the horror factor.
Alien: Romulus does a better job than some of the Alien canon of creating scary moments, but it leans too heavily on explosive moments, losing the unique fright of the original.
There's really only one Alien sequel that captures the essential feeling of the original, and that sequel isn't a movie, but the video game Alien: Isolation, which excels at making the alien utterly terrifying.
Alien: Isolation focuses on moment-to-moment encounters with the creature, recreating the intense suspense of Alien, where each corner turned could lead to an encounter with the fearsome xenomorph.
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