User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Alien: The Horror God, and if You've Been Influenced/@comment-5632489-20150227025946/@comment-27007772-20150227032837

Halo and Doom have both openly stated they are immensely influenced by Alien, especially Halo 1 and Doom 3. Scream was a reaction to the slasher craze Alien started, and Friday the 13th along with Nightmare on Elmstreet are a direct result.

Seriously, look up any top 10 influential movies list, be it opinionated or critical, and Alien will 9/10 be at the top. Alien is to horror and suspense what Goldeneye was to FPS games.

Was there stuff before it? Yeah. Did any of them have as large as an affect? Definitely not.

Closest competition is Jaws and Psycho, and both of which influenced Alien, just as Wolfenstein and Doom influenced Goldeneye.

Alien, just like Goldeneye, is the bottleneck of it's medium.