The first Facehugger design for "Alien" was initially much larger and more grotesque. Thankfully H. R. Giger scaled it down ...

“I had never been so sure of anything in my life.” — Ridley Scott, recalling his reaction to H. R. Giger’s creation for Alien. The most terrifying thing about the Alien in Ridley Scott’s film was ...

The 24-year-old actor — who plays one of the show's two adult Xenomorphs — had to film a fight scene with the CGI-generated creature, but he wasn't left completely in the dark. The Alien: Earth ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered "Alien" in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

Erik Hawkins is an award-winning writer and editor who's been obsessed with cinema since he was old enough to hold Roger Ebert's Video Home Companion in his hands. He lives in NYC, where he rabidly ...

Undeniably, Hans Ruedi Giger, the late Swiss artist, was most famous for his design of the xenomorph in Ridley Scott's immortal sci-fi classic "Alien," for which he won an Academy Award for Best ...