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StarBeast — Alien, the Chestburster

THE ALIEN, SECOND PHASE: Once the Alien (First Phase) has attached itself to the face of a victim, it lays eggs in the victim’s stomach, and the egg grows into the Alien (Second Phase). This is a small creature which bites its way out of the victim’s body. -Dan O’Bannon, original letter to H.R. Giger… Read More StarBeast — Alien, the Chestburster

05/02/201520/04/2018 the monster philologist1 Comment

StarBeast — Alien, the Egg and the Facehugger

When Hans Ruedi Giger was finally hired as a designer for Alien, he was assigned the task to conceive all the otheworldly aspects of the film — the planetoid, the Derelict and its Pilot, and the Alien itself in all of the stages of its life cycle. Obviously unable to also construct all the needed… Read More StarBeast — Alien, the Egg and the Facehugger

05/02/201530/10/2016 the monster philologist3 Comments

Monster Gallery: Alien (1979)

Main Articles: StarBeast — Prologue: Alien, Dan O’Bannon’s Cosmic Horror StarBeast — Alien, the Egg and the Facehugger StarBeast — Alien, the Chestburster StarBeast — Alien Pilot of the Derelict

26/12/201309/12/2025 the monster philologist4 Comments

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