but I love the casting and the interplay between the characters

Might have been the first horror movie I ever saw, and the style of gore is still hard to stomach decades later, but I love the casting and the interplay between the characters, to say nothing of the story line. It reminds me of Alien, it's just such a visceral, in-your-face story, so far-fetched and yet at the same time so believable I had to add it to my collection. I'm not a huge horror or John Carpenter fan, but in my mind this is one of his best. The transfer to Blu-ray is excellent, and watching it on a big TV it's just like being back in the movie theater all over again.

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