User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Alien: The Horror God, and if You've Been Influenced/@comment-27007772-20150227035315

I'm surprised at the amount of people naming movies that are big, but don't have much influence as competitors. As far as suspense goes, the literal only movie that could ever have as much influence as Alien, would either be 2001: A Space Oddessy, or Jaws.

Keep in mind this is about INFLUENCE, not how good the movie is. Alien is by far the most influential movie to video games, having games such as Halo, Doom, and Metroid, all of which kickstarted a different hoard under their own rights, attributed to it directly.

This is not saying Alien is the best horror movie ever, (I even prefer the sequel, Aliens as my favorite), but rather saying its affect.