Alien vs The Thing

I like them both but I would say Thing is the better film.

The Thing for me

Both are great but The Thing is my favorite horror movie so I have to go with it.

Thing

Alien, if I had a gun to my head.

Alien but it´s close

HUGE alien fan

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at first I was thinking ben grimm

The Thing is my favorite horror film.

The Thing for me. It's very close though.

I love both films but I voted for The Thing. It literally took me about a minute to decide. I will add that I don't think a film like The Thing would have been imagined as it was had Alien never came out. I think Alien heavily influenced The Thing. And why wouldn't it? Alien had came out just a few years prior and was a huge hit.

But if it were Aliens vs. The Thing it would have only taken me 1 second to decide: Aliens... Easy.

This is my first post ever! I've been reading the battles for years so I figure I may as well join. :D

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Alien was better directed, Thing was better written.

I love them both, but I edge toward Alien.

• Both were all time great horror/thriller Sci Fi films.
• But Alien was more to my likening becuase its use of terror was simple yet sophisticated and elegantly shot and paced. Hands down one of the greatest thriller suspense films of all time.

The Thing still some of the best special effects ever.

Very close, but ALIEN for me.

Close, but Thing is the closest thing to perfection in the genre for my eyes.

Came in thinking this was about Ben Grimm...

Anyway, Alien. A strong female protagonist against the odds with an extraterrestrial monster is just my kinda movie.

The sexual overtones are a bonus too:

For King, the 'chestburster' scene from Alien, in which an infant extraterrestrial tears its way out through John Hurt's ribcage, is a classic 'gross out' moment, although Alien scriptwriter Dan O'Bannon argues that it also functions as a metaphorical dramatisation of the male fear of penetration. He says that the oral invasion of Hurt's character was 'payback' for all those horror films in which sexually vulnerable women were terrorised by rampaging male monsters. Indeed, in our documentary Alien: Evolution, filmmakers Russell Leven, Andrew Abbott and I ran split screen footage of the chestburster sequence alongside documentary film of a normal human birth with surprisingly well-matched results.

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@cruelestashley: And those face huggers also look like va****s.

Thing

The Thing may be my favorite horror film.

Blade Runner

the thing scared me more

As much as I love Carpenter, Alien is better.

Alien. Not even close imo.

The chestburster scene....."Ow, ow god..."

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The Thing

Alien

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The Thing but only slightly.

Corrosive Acid > ∞

Alien is more iconic. Now if you said the original Thing then I would go with that film.

The Thing was really better in every way......(not that alien was a bad film, just not nearly as good)

Xenos all the time

The thing was far more terrifying

The thing

Can't make a choice !