Jethro
Captain
With the recent sequels/reboots (Prometheus, Covenant) do you still think they are leaning to the horror spectrum? I actually agree with you about the original Alien that it's a horror monster movie but the recent movies, I think, lean more towards the horror resulting from science gone wrong.
Oh the alien franchise headed directly into SciFi from Aliens onwards. Unfort the third movie laid down the religous overtones that Scott has picked up on through the last couple of movies. Scott can still pull this off imho, needs some clever writing and one huge plot twist in the next movie imho.