The original 1979 film is the creation myth of a meta-mythology that spans films, books,Īnd more. There are two ways to look at Alien: as a standalone movie and as part of a multimedia franchise.
Sunset Boulevard In sequels, no one can hear you scream HR Giger's horrifying design for the alien sinks its fangs into our primal fears.
The horror of Alien is primal, both repulsive and fascinating. When we weren't talking about The Matrix we were talking about Alien.Ī lot has been written about the subtextual horror of Alien, the phallic creature, the oral violation, the combination of reproduction and death, culminating in Barbara Creed's analysis of the "monstrous-feminine as archaic mother." Sex and death and penetration and fangs and something awful in the night. It followed me through my young life, because I was studying for a media degree, and let me tell you, media studies academics bloody love Alien. I was obsessed with Alien and the more military-themed sequel Aliens as a teenager, reading the comics and books and drawing the alien on my schoolbooks. The most awful thing you can imagine, lurking in the darkness. But the real fear of the film is in the fact you mostly don't see the alien until it's too late. I first saw it when I was far too young, and even now when I look up the clip of the chestburster scene on YouTube I feel the same revulsion as the cast when the deadly xenomorph makes its first appearance. Let's not forget, this movie is scary as shit. It also covered the effects work in the original Predator (#33).Sigourney Weaver and director Ridley Scott.
All the secrets of these visually stunning and innovative blockbuster films are containing in this first, exciting collaboration between Titan Books and respected special effects magazine Cinefex.ĭiscover the very different approaches to the creative process of directors Ridley Scott, James Cameron and David Fincher, and follow the changes in available technology over the period in which the three films were made from filming a tall man in an Alien costume to the complexities of computer-generated imagery from studio-bound production to location shots.Īnd enjoy the entertaining inventiveness of the special effects teams, whether they're using seafood to simulate internal organs, or borrowing a laser display to create space light! Trivia Giger.ĭiscover how the amazing special effects in Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 were achieved in this inside, in-depth look behind the scenes. It also includes interviews with directors Ridley Scott and James Cameron, and the original Alien designer H. It offers an in-depth, insider look into how the special effects in the first three films of the Alien franchise were achieved. The book is not actually original material, but rather a collected reprint of articles on Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 that first appeared in issues 1, 27 and 50 of Cinefex magazine, respectively. 144 Alien: The Special Effects is a 1997 behind the scenes book covering the creation of the special effects in Alien, Aliens and Alien 3, written by Don Shay and Bill Norton and published as a collaboration between Titan Books and the special effects journal Cinefex.
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