The Thing remake. Everybody is competaent and fairly level headed. The monster is just too OP for them to beat.

I believe issues like this can value greatly from well-formed opinions, and well-formed opinions usually require accurate, unbiased information (at least as unbiased as possible). Don’t be fed knowledge, hunt it down. Why not go to the source? You may not have the power to do anything about it now, but as you said,…

Alien is, to me, the gold standard in sci-fi horror.

Ok now what about sci-fi horror? Alien treads a fine line. Its characters aren’t stupid: none of them are stupid. But they’re mostly lazy and greedy - even that’s harsh, they’re ordinary people. They want their cut. They want to finish their long hard shift and get home. Only Ripley is awake enough to think “maybe my…