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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I dunno, Aliens just feels like mostly an action movie set on an alien planet. Alien was a horror, but the space setting also had a lot more to do with that horror. The isolation, cinematography, set pieces etc all benefit from the sci-fi space setting. Aliens could have really been set anywhere and had largely the same story.
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Take away the space ships, technology, xenomorphs and alien planet and of course Aliens isn’t sci-fi. But it has those things so it is.
Exact same principle applies to Alien. Take away everything that makes it sci-fi and it’s just another horror film.