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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the ...

With any fandom, there are always specific ideas about how and why things can and should work. That can be true on an individual basis, or a global basis as the fanbase argues about “canon” – what is, ...

What do Xenomorph eggs feel like? According to the special effects experts who designed them for Alien: Earth, the answer is warm and sticky. Second Skin Studio worked directly with Wētā Workshop and ...

The latex suit 6ft 10in Badejo wore to portray the Xenomorph cost more than a quarter of a million dollars The original Alien Xenomorph was discovered not in a glowing egg on a faraway planet or ...

For years, I firmly believed that there were no bad "Alien" movies (I am, of course, excluding the dreadful "Alien vs. Predator" films, which simply don't count). Ridley Scott's original "Alien" is a ...

Like the xenomorph itself, Alien: Earth has (chest) burst onto FX and Hulu with the first two episodes of the highly anticipated prequel series. True to form for show creator Noah Hawley, who has ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...