Yeah, it was the dread. Where is it?
It’s funny how two of the scariest movies ever are so scary because of prop failures. We hardly see the alien in Alien because they just couldn’t manage to make it not look like a guy in a rubber suit. So you get the bits. Probably the worst aspect of CGI is now you can do anything, so they do. Amazing creativity comes from “this prop sucks, how do we deal with it?”
That’s a very good point!