User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Alien: The Horror God, and if You've Been Influenced/@comment-25148755-20150227025559/@comment-27007772-20150227031039

At the time before Alien, Jaws was seen as one of the most suspenseful films of all time, and scariest. By today's standards Jaws is tame, but just like Psycho, at it's release time, it was absolutely shocking.

Only difference is Alien didn't lead to so much sharks being slaughtered do to fear that the director had to publicly outcry against it, and make a documentary on how sharks aren't that deadly.