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on 9/9/2009
How the hell can anyone choose betwen these?!?!
on 11/24/2009
It's simple, you just have to click on the movie poster for "The Shining".
on 12/19/2009
It's simple, you just have to click on the movie poster for "Alien".
on 2/28/2010
on 9/11/2010
Well now you've made it harder, one of you says Alien the other The Shining, which one is it!
on 9/20/2010
You pick the one that's scary. And really, only one of them was.
@BrendanH: Amen to that. One of these is the greatest horror movie ever made. The other is incomprehensible crap. (i.e.: It's simple, you just have to click on the movie poster for "Alien".)
on 9/21/2010
The Shining was creepy, but yes, Alien was far more scary. I imagine that Dante had creatures like the Alien in mind as tormentors for damned souls in the Inferno, terrifying arbiters of torture and evisceration that only the truly disturbed could dream up.
It's close, but Alien wins.
on 12/11/2010
Face huggers. Chest bursters. Android betrayal. And terrifying and unique title monster. All set in a claustrophobic spaceship full of awesome. The Shining is brilliant, but Alien just has more nightmare fuel by far.
on 1/19/2012
Kubrick's direction, Nicholson's performance, the isolation, surrealism, lingering sense of dread. Yeah, The Shining takes it for me. Alien's great though.
on 1/20/2012
Wow,this is tough.I love Alien.But The Shining is my favourite horror film.Both movies develop a spooky atmosphere.
on 3/2/2012
Alien had a bigger impact.
on 5/23/2012
The Shining it is.Ridley can't compete with the genius of Kubrick.
Alien.
Good one. The Shining. Next.
on 6/24/2013
on 10/1/2013
Two of the greatest atmospheres ever put on film right here. Alien wins.
on 10/5/2013
Two movies I will be watching this month. Could change after I re-visit them, but The Shining has always been my favorite of the two.
on 4/17/2014
The Shining I choose you
on 4/18/2014
Great matchup. I prefer Alien.
on 10/3/2014
Two great horror films. Shining wins.
on 2/7/2015
I have to go with The Shining on this one.
on 4/28/2015
Alien all the way.
I changed my mind. Alien by an long shot.
Alien is good but The Shining is great.
on 5/13/2015
They are both such important films to their respective genre, but I have to go with The Shinning. As old as the film is, it still gets under my skin.
Shining*, I always make that mistake.
on 10/7/2015
Alien is pretty great, but I'm definitely going with The Shining.
on 10/15/2017
I prefer Alien's atmosphere, it's scarier.
on 9/1/2018
alien was a little boring for me so i go with the shining what a masterpiece
on 10/22/2018
Two of my all time favs here but for me The Shining wins for being a simple story but so complex as well.
on 11/13/2018
Both movies are iconic and have a breathtaking editing, but i prefer Alien. Alien is just disgusting in a good sense of way and for me the definition of claustrophobia.
on 6/23/2019
The shining is scarier
on 10/31/2019
This just isn't fair...
