The dangling chain sounds and rain like drippings adds so much atmosphere and texture to this brilliantly conceived scene… edited or not it’s so effective.
3aion 3 true, no cats were harmed during the making of this film - but the post traumatic stress was terrible, ‘cause you don’t know, man, you weren’t there!
That shot is honestly the scariest shot I've seen in any movie because it's just sitting there quietly doing nothing... and blending in effortlessly. A sheer testament to how dangerous it is.
Most people think that Lambert's scream is the scariest in the film but I find Brett's the scariest cause it sounds so real. Stanton's portrayal of terror is just so convincing. Especially with how he desperately calls out for his buddy Parker. RIP Harry Dean.
No john hurt gives the best performance in my opinion. He really looks like he is in agony as an alien is bursting out his chest. Still one of the most shocking scenes in a horror film. The new films with the cgi crap just makes it look like a PlayStation 3 cutscene.
@@DarrenTheman-r8r They've gotta go back to practical effects and lots of old school ways or we'll never see movies like this again. (Of course better stories too, stories are weak at the mo). Also take a look at Superman The Movie compared to 2006 and 2013 cringe versions.
+JMD Nelson apparently you're too stupid to understand that this is the original appearance of the Xenomorph, and the first time it's fully grown form is shown on screen. The actual film release reveal is much better, with less details about the creature shown until later points in the film.
Yeah, everyone now knows what the xenomorph looks like, but in 1979 they didn't. The whole reason for the small glimpses of the creature early in the movie was to not give too much of it away. Even Ridley Scott was disappointed at the whole reveal of the creature later in the movie that it was clearly a guy in a suit. But if they revealed it like that earlier in the movie the overall impact of the creature would have suffered. The more you show something like the xenomorph, it becomes less special. It's probably why the xenomorphs lost their fear factor by the time of Aliens, we saw too much of them in that movie and seeing them get cut down by the Marines didn't help.
Didn't the xenomorphs wipe out majority of the Marines with ease? The alien was still dangerous and a huge threat, at no point did they have an advantage over them, they were clinging onto survival they were first attacked.
I don't know. The alien is supposed to have gore, but the original film scene is much more realistic. Showing less of the fully grown alien is better for the plot.
The original film scene was very much so realistic yes, but you don't need gore just to have a frightening movie. This shows that the alien uses it's tail for more than what fans think it likes to do just because of the breeding it's race. This shows that the tail was used to bring it's victims closer in and seeing Ripley and Parker running forward and shouting his name explain why they told Dallas that they saw him being taken into the air ducts this scene was in the original book so it was accurate
Less is more with this film for sure this scene still scary regardless I like both versions but I am kinda glad it was cut down a little cause at this point of the film we see that it’s grown and it’s more of a surprise when you just see the head come down then the whole body.
When I saw the original Alien in the theater, people actually fled during Kane's and Bret's deaths, a true testament to the terror imbued by this brilliant film. No other movie experience has even come close to this classic.
My grandfather. A Jehovah's Witnesses. He thought Alien was a "dinosaur" movie...haha!. I was scared and fascinated by the film and the horror, but my grandfather..well, ask Jesus...
I was a 6 year old boy and saw this in the theater opening night with my uncle. Screwed me up for weeks. Really when the facehugger emerged from the egg, that did me in for the rest of the film. I stuck with it, but man oh man did it screw up my sleep for awhile.
I was 10 years old when I went to see this with my dad in 1979. We had no idea what we were in for. Going to see ALIEN was not just another day at the movies.... it was an event! Lines were stretched around the block and the theater had the face hugger egg props in the lobby. People were so terrified of this movie, that many of them left the theater.
I do like seeing the alien dangling upside down and swaying with the chains. It reminds me of the hunting spiders who sometimes lay in wait for their prey.
I love that he growls at it. It's such an appropriate and animalistic response to being cornered, and really conveys the arrogance of humans who have forgotten what it feels like to be hunted.
While I agree with a lot of the people below about the appropriateness of the actual final cut that was made for the movie, it is really interesting to see the full length segments that were made up during production! Really cool thanks!
I saw it first when I was 15 on video in 1985, alone, nobody home except for me. The other movies weren't produced yet. I first saw the mouth with it's saliva and all the transparent teeth and though WHAT IN GOOD HEAVENS IS THAT?!? I didn't know at that time that I was about to meet the absolute most terrifying film monster in history so far.
The way this alien killed people was very intense, it seemed like it enjoyed the terror its victims had so it took its time. Now as for the other films those aliens kinda just went for a quick kill and thats it. This creature had alot of charactor to it.
BrianScottNJx87 Yes, this is why the original film will always be the best, the mystery, the unknown, the terror, the first Alien stalking and killing its' victims like a sadistic serial killer. In Aliens the drones were acting on gathering Humans and protecting the Queen. There on in the other films, animals, cloned xenomorphs and a predator were the probably the changes in behavior.
Yeah. The camera lingers and pans across so much hardware and mechanisms and byzantine technology, when you do see the alien, you might easily take it to be just another cool detail of the _Nostromo,_ not the pale and robust worm that burst from Kane’s chest. But it makes sense that the alien would look like its host _and_ the ship. Where did the alien get all that mass from? It didn’t get it from the crew, obviously, since they were still alive at this point. I think the movie suggests that the alien somehow absorbed energy and matter from the ship itself. The animal that takes Brett would no longer be just “Kane’s son,” but a child of the _Nostromo_ as well.
@@CHALETARCADEI agree the explanation is farfetched but the plot hole is true. I never actually thought about it but how can an organic alien grow to more than what it consumes
@@jamiehoward5538 It's not a plot hole at all, it's the core of the script, this creature is ALIEN, it's completely different from us, supposedly the perfect organism, so a creature that would grow very fast so it can defend itself fast and kill its prey within 24h. Makes sense to me. Not to mention that it's never clear that the creature eats anything, it attacks viciously, yes, but consumes its preys? No, not as far as we can tell, so why assume tha it would need nourishment to grow? I certainly never did.
In the theatrical release, they should have at least left in the scene where Ripley and Parker run in and see a glimpse of the alien, the blood dripping down onto Parker would also have been great to see. Also, love Harry Dean Stanton's acting here, his stunned/shock response to first seeing the alien is great, it's so sad when he yells one last time for his friend Parker, poor Brett :(
I disagree for a couple of reasons. The scene is so quiet that Ripley and Parker must have been a long way off. This is implied by the long intro which built suspense as Brett moved further and further away. For them to come running in would have contradicted the former sense of isolation. It would also suggest that the ship was much smaller than it is which would make hunting the alien down seem easier which would then diminish the scene of Dallas entering the labyrinth of air ducts. Also, don't you think Yaphet Kotto's acting was off? He looked as if he was expecting to be splattered with blood and felt it wasn't coming down quickly enough so that he was forced to spread his chest in order to *catch* the droplets to make the scene work how it was writtten (in another outtake I've seen he gets a bucket of blood dumped on him in one go).
Arthur Workman in that case imagine: YOU had to go hunt this thing (keep in mind you know nothing about this creature at the time only that its "small") and then you stumble upon this man-sized creature that was just watching you the whole time, and its only intention is to kill you and everyone else on your ship. Fear can do a lot to a person. It can make them indecisive, or scare them stiff, or it can make them fight or make them flee. Not everyone is the same when they face fear, Brett was simply too afraid to move.
Joseph Wasilitz Actually actual Drones were originally going to appear in Aliens but during pre-production the creature's smooth carapace was removed out of fear the fragile dome would crack during filming, a modification that gave rise to the Warrior caste.
First time seeing Alien, I was unnerved by the slow, almost gliding movement of the alien. Like it was always in complete control and not in a hurry. Like death itself, inevitable and unstoppable
Oh my God! This is amazing! So creepy and terrifying, it must have taken ages for you to have edited this. I would be interested to see Alien Uncut when it's finished.
Superb work, I have never seen a lot of this footage, some of it was great to see the alien in more detail, especially after seeing the original so many times. There are certain scenes, such as the alien extending and the shots of its head in more detail I would have left as director, they are really nice. Don't look cheap or rubbery at all. You can also finally see the human skull in more detail too in the alien's head. Well done sir, for giving us this cut!
I woud think a real creature like this would kill much quicker , but it's smart enough to be totaly slient until it's up on you, then imagine the grip it has to barly hold you in it's hands ,so even if you try to escape you can't before it swipes you with it's tail to knock you down.
I use this as the perfect example of why Alien: Covenant failed when it came to scenes with the xenomorph. Compare the drawn out silence and suspense of this scene with the sudden, no-build, and throwaway death scenes in Covenant and the difference is stark.
Yes, my impression of the film is that it's almost entirely like that. Maybe just one scene where they have time to ponder how screwed they are. All the other times it's a struggle against something or being jumped at by something. There is no room for suspense in that.
I thought the death scene where the neomorph was literally standing behind the woman in the bathroom in davids lair was good, the things were more creepy with their little butt mouths.
And also why "the man in the suit" is still the best... because the alien is born (in most cases) from a human host. Having that link is what makes it even scarier.
I love how it's hidden in plain sight at 1:00 Other than that this would be showing too much of the creature too soon if it was like this in the film. I suppose it's fine for us who already know what it looks like and what will happen to the scene. As a separate clip, mind you.
Yes, this is pieced together from outtakes, etc. we've seen in various home video releases over the years, but as this is a fan edit, I have no issue with the length of the scene. Indeed, it provides a greater look at the quite comprehensive material Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings had at their disposal in the editing room for 'Alien', and helps to illuminate further their editorial decisions. Clearly, Scott shot a LOT of alien footage, and the decision to only offer the audience very abstract and tight glimpses of the creature in the finished film was a choice clearly made in post-production. It's nice to have all this material assembled in one place, and to see how significantly differently the film could have played out with another director and/or editor. Thanks for your hard work, DestronTC - and I would love to see the final film reassembled and made available to fans in this way. :)
The movie would take FOREVER at this pace... Also, this is the first reveal of the ALIEN... had it been shown originally like this, there would have been no mystery. I'm not criticizing the work, just pointing out that it's far more interesting as an isolated scene than presented in the film this way.
Given the jumps in quality, this looks like test footage for the scene. The final product we got feels like a combination of the classic horror staple of 'don't show too much of the creature in the beginning' and, as you mentioned, consideration for pacing. Personally, after being a 20+ year fan of this film, it was nice to see the entirety of what they had to work with, compared to what we got.
While this extended kill scene is effective and interesting in itself - - I can see why Scott edited it down. It makes the movie too much of a gore film, the xenomorph is revealed in its entirety too early in the story, the monster is exposed with silly superdexterity. This scene's final edit(in the movie) reminds all of the old adage: sometimes less is more.
Everytime I rewatch this scene I thank god somebody had sense enough to cut it down. This scene is one of the most important if not the most important in the film and if left like this the movie would be tarnished irrevocably
Xendrius I always wonder that too?? What was keeping the Alien suspended in the air? *clearly cables or suspension wires* but It doesn't look like the Alien itself is holding anything with its hands or tail?? So how is it floating ?? Odd... Maybe why this scene was cutt down slightly ?
The Alien is holding itself in place with its dorsal horns, they can be manipulated, In the nest in Aliens, that's how the Alien lunges out of the wall and takes out Dietrich
On the storyboards its feets seems to be holding on a chain or pipe or something. I guess when the script says that it defies gravity it probably means that no weight can hinder it.
They cut more than an hour off the film to make it two hours in the final release. And while we can all agree that this cut (thank you for posting, btw) was a little long-winded with weird cuts and didn't flow), there was another non-theatrical release version on HBO about 4 years ago that showed the Alien merely hanging above as if asleep... the rest is the same as the theatrical release except until Parker and Ripley look upward and Parker is splattered with blood. It was enough, and it explained why Parker - in the theatrical release - knew that this "thing was big, like a man..." This should've made it into the final release.
It's a shame they cut this, considering it showcases how brutal the Alien was when it came to the art of killing. But then, the suspense of the reveal wouldn't have been so influential since there were full-body shots of the creature.
I can see why Herr Direktor Scott edited it down. It makes the movie too much of a gore film, the xenomorph is revealed in its entirety too early in the story, the monster is exposed to be a master gymnast with silly superdexterity. This scene's final edit(in the movie) reminds of the old adage: sometimes less is more.
I think Ridley’s original cut of Brett’s death needed no improvement, but I would not want to be without all the stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor. Not sure how other people feel about it, but the scariest part of this extended version is Harry Dean Stanton performance. It’s like he’s building to some mindless scream, reverting to a child or an infant, puffing out his cheeks like a bull about to charge, and then he begins to whimper! How often does a victim in a horror movie literally whimper, whimper like a frightened dog? That was such a Lovecraftian reaction. Lovecraft’s narrators often just lose their minds when confronted with ancient and cosmic horrors. Stanton’s performance here feels like that, as if his mind could not cope with what he was seeing, watching the almost gentle way the alien reaches out to his head. For a second, his mind returns long enough to scream for Parker. Though the alien is about to physically attack and take him, the psychological attack of the alien’s sheer presence is devastating.
A lot of the additional material is from the cutting room, the original thought process was that the ALIEN could run up and down using the chains like a spider, so I think the shots where it is just suspended like a circus act detracts from the tension of the scene and I can see why it was omitted. It is always incredible to see this creature up close, but sometimes less is more I think
I still think the original"Alien"is the most terrifying movie in cinema history.The things this creature did to these people is beyond horrific.I saw it at movies at age ten and 2/3rds of audience left because they just could not take what they were seeing.And I was sick on busride home.Never forget it
THIS is why the first film is always gonna be my favorite out of the series. The subliminal sexuality the Alien has, in my opinion, is really shown here. The way its head and face rises up and it's dripping with saliva and how it's almost elegantly observing Brett just seconds before killing him. That's what makes the Big Chap a horrifying piece of art in a way. It pulls off being fluid and graceful but equally violent and frightening on so many levels.
Yeah - I mean Aliens is my favourite film OAT in terms of pure watchability... but when it comes to doing this creature justice none of the other films even come close to the original. The Alien here is so gracefull, so unpredictable... and is in absolutely no hurry whatsoever in murdering the crew. It even seems intrueged by its fellow humans, studying them for a while and touching them before violently murdering them (or not, as the coccoon scene shows). Ridley Scott did a masterful job of bringing H.R. Giger's art to life in terms of behaviour and tone. We will never have a cinematic monster this utterly terrifying ever again.
My most scary moment sitting in the theater in 1979, was Brett's point of view approaching the landing gear room with the slow track into the wall slot. Mind you it was in 70mm on the theater's biggest screen! I knew he was going to get it just not when or how!
GiaTheAttitudeCat I saw this when I was 8 I couldn't go into any dark room without fearing I'll wake up with a dead facehugger by me and die in a hour or so
GiaTheAttitudeCat I first saw it at a young age in the early 80s It's still the only monster that makes me nervous When I played Alien isolation I almost had a stroke I think I was petrified of it when young n its stayed with me
Huh, seems there was alot of sneaking kids into rated R films! Friends Bday @ 6 of us went, I was 10 then and First nightmare that night was me waking to a facehugger racing across his floor at me while I was in my sleeping bag. I then woke up, like in American Werewolf, the waking in a dream but still dreaming! I do think revealing more later in the film would've been better. I had to get a good look at the Alien from the Kenner doll soon after, which I still have.
The size, toughness, vicious cruelty, and deadly power of this xenomorph from the first 'Alien' as compared to later versions in the subsequent films has often been remarked upon from several observers and sources. There's a theory that this xeno was in fact a 'drone' as opposed to the 'warrior' caste of the subsequent films - note its slightly larger size, smooth, as opposed to ridged, skull carapace, possibly even greater strength and toughness, and possibly slightly higher intelligence. The 'warriors' of the later films are mainly quick strike and attack swarm creatures, conditioned to defend the hive en masse at all costs, while the somewhat slower yet stronger drones are the 'workers' who build and maintain the hive and do all the hard labor and 'heavy lifting' at the will of the queen. It is also theorized that the drones, unlike the warriors, are somewhat more intelligent and have the quasi-hermaphroditic ability to slowly convert biological/organic matter outside their own species into viable reproductive vessels to propagate the species in the absence if a queen - as evidenced by the 'egg-morphing' of Brett and Dallas literally into eggs - an ability, which this theory presumes, the warrior caste lacks.
@@talonanthony Good question, although we know now that the alien wanted to capture him to turn him into an egg, so maybe he wanted to injure him, not outright kill him, so the inner jaw didn't go super deep. Just a possibility.
They should've put the extra seconds where the alien stands up and you see through the clear head, the close up of the aliens face, and just a couple seconds with him squeezing Brett's head. That would to me add just that little extra terror
LESS IS MORE! I'm so glad these scenes were edited from the final cut, less is more is what made and still makes this such a good theatrical horror story, this is one of the only horror films that glue my eyes to the screen with a fast heart rate... or am I thinking about Alien: isolation
2:40 Brett didn't run because he was trying to handle the alien like you would handle a stray dog.....you don't run or show your back to a stray dog otherwise it'll attack you. You can see Brett is trying to assert his dominance as the alpha male by puffing his cheeks and trying to stare the alien down....unfortunately, this didn't work out too well for Brett because the alien submits to no man. The A in alien stands for alpha, the B in Brett stands for beta.
@@aolcom-nl9qb in my eyes it was predator behavior. It was sort of snake attack slow and creepy. Even mice can not run from snake even if they are much quicker. This is more realistic than runaway scenario. And also you don't show your back to the close threats rather than incoming. When is tiger next to you I want to be there and watch when it cut off your surrounding escapes. Even tiger starts growl little and be less careful about sounds he make due to its sure of its supper.
Peter Vlčko As a animal expert I'm not intimated by any Predator of any world, however I agree with any creatures such as this version of a alien predator you back away slowly not looking it in the eyes if it even has them,
Just shows the power of editing, so much scarier seeing less and making it quicker. The shot when it appears over his shoulder still gives me goosebumps
None of the extra scenes are properly edited and post processed. So of course they look out of Place and too revealing. But I Believe that with magic of said editing, Music, sfx, lighting ect many deleted scenes would work like a charm in an extended cut.
I can't recall from the original, but that scene where the Alien is suspended up in the chains is so damn awesome....I don't remember seeing that until I had the DVD Extended & Blu-Ray. The only other added footage that really worked is seeing the Alien Tail sting Brett's neck. They have also explained that is how they capture Humans for Hosts by paralyzing them.
i find this shot particularly scary. it looks very believable to me. Wish they have left it. ...there are few other bits however that looked cheap. Good editing can make wonders!
This attack scene has always mystified me. It never looked right , the way the Alien drops in behind Bret and the way it takes off with him. The Alien elevates and doesnt use its legs. This extended scene shines more light on what the production team where doing. Im pretty Ridley Scott was never truly happy with this scene. It doesn't quite work.
Yeah I’m still confused. The alien was hovering above on the chains, dropped down without using its hand and then climbed the chains again while using both hands to hold Brett How exactly was it moving up and down the chains?
I can understand why they cut certain scenes. The more you show of it the more obvious it becomes it's a bloke in a rubber costume. I think this limitation would be easier to overcome with advanced effects these days.
The story is that Harry Dean Stanton had not ever played 'fear' before onscreen, and he was unsure how to proceed. But it's obvious his instincts as an actor were right, as it's clear that Brett simply doesn't know what he is looking at (although there is some form of primal recognition that this 'thing' is exceptionally dangerous). How do you convey a reaction to the utterly unknowable? But it's entirely in keeping with character: Brett isn't a verbal person, and so HDS plays his reaction as reverting to some kind of monosyllabic groans, as befits a prey item about to be devoured by a huge set of teeth. :) The editing in the original scene also attempts to reproduce Brett's confused perspective: the extremely tight (and almost abstract) close-ups of the alien's head and teeth deny easy assimilation of what we're seeing. This is why this extended fan edit is illuminating, as it shows how drastically Ridley Scott reigned in the alien onscreen, preferring instead to distort and infer its appearance - even when the Giger design was so overwhelmingly unique and original. Most other directors would have gone straight to the 'money shot', thus sacrificing everything to please the audience.
Extremely frightening! Better than what was in the film *except* that this really gives away the appearance of the alien more than would have been right for the whole film. I love Harry Stanton's unusual vocal response. Although I can't figure out what would justify such a response it made the scene more frightening and realistic somehow, perhaps simply because it didn't conform to expectations. Was the idea that he wanted to try to be tough and fight it but found himself incapable of moving and unable even to muster up a battle cry? Another possible reason why they didn't extend the scene was that given the amount of blood that was evident from the first attack (which wasn't shown in the film in the final cut) Brett would probably have lost consciousness and been incapable of screaming or thrashing about. Whether he would have been killed the instant the alien's tongue smashed his skull is actually more probable than what they went with i.e. Brett being able to have an extended death scream.
..also liked your cocoon one as well....always bugged me the Directors cut included the cocoon scene but was not as frightening as the deleted scene version, something to do with the sounds Dallas makes.... also never explained why Ripley, time running out went down there in the first place....
I thought exactly the same thing. I happened to be watching Alien and was stunned and delighted to see that they'd included the 'deleted' scene only to feel let down by what *wasn't* the cocoon sequence I knew. I almost felt sick with horror at the deleted scene that was a bonus on the special edition DVD release. The whole thing fully conveyed the nightmare of being paralysed and gradually eaten away/coverted into the alien nest, fully able to experience every moment of it. Dallas' moans were unlike anything I'd heard in a film before. That scene would have been the worst part of Ripley's whole experience. Even if she hadn't had a relationship with Dallas, she would never get that nightmare vision out of her head.
I saw the original in the year of it's release when I was 9 years old. This movie was so horrific, word of mouth was more effective advertising than the official advertising - in Australia anyway. It was the subject of conversation - a must watch for horror movie buffs and raising respect for the sci-horror genre. At 54 years old, I now get to see for the first time this extended version and I am lost for words. Lost for words as to how this was not included from the beginning. It is pure extreme horror, but combined with the violence and gore that even at my desensitized age from a regular course of sci/horror fiction, find myself shocked. I can feel Brett's fear; followed by a sense of his hopelessness in his futility of growling at this purely evil creature (hoping to ward it off wile maintaining self restraint so as not to aggravate it any further), followed by the suffering he goes through in the creatures crushing grip and creature's tail (proceeding between his legs, up his back to his neck at which time his pain so extreme his self-restraint fails by his growling transforming into outbursts of screaming), followed by the inevitable "kiss" of death. Horror movies and even real-life events have shown some pretty awful ways to go and even in consideration of all of those, this would be a death preceded by cruel and unusual punishment inflicted solely to torture its prey to maximize its pleasure at inflicting maximum suffering. I can see why there is the opinion that H R Giger was into the very dark side of the occult and this creature both in form and behavior may be inspired from.
I love the original scene so much... it's one of the best creature reveals maybe in any scifi/horror film. But, I do like seeing some of the experiments they did with the movement of the xenomorph. Originally, this thing was truly alien. It didn't move like a person, necessarily, or some wild beast. Its movements, its thoughts, its motivations, were truly alien, and they tried to capture that. This footage and the footage just before Lambert's/Parker's deaths where it crab-walks into the room--to me at least--tell of a much more frightening creature than the 'bugs' we ended up getting in James Cameron's film (which I also love). Still, good job on this. I wouldn't change the original scene at all, but it's nice to see where their thought processes were going, and what was lost in translating the sequels.
Torni 3945 I think it's because this one wasn't a drone like those ones. Notice the different head (That might just be because of the director) I don't know, I just like to think of it like that.
TheReal MovieFreak Actual Drones were originally going to appear in Aliens but during pre-production the creature's smooth carapace was removed out of fear the fragile dome would crack during filming, a modification that gave rise to the Warrior caste.
Torni 3945 the aliens in the second one were not mindless. It may have seemed that way since they were all acting as soliders who would do anything to protect their queen. But they were certainly still smart. Remember the scene in aliens when the power goes out? And ripley says they cut the power? And hudson was like "hiw can they cut the power? Theyre animals!" That shows that the aliens were still much more intelligent then the average predator.
I think it would've been just fine in the movie. The more like this, the better. Scary! And I don't think they showed too much of the alien to keep it scary. I mean, we've known what it looks like since the 70s and we're still watching them!
In the original theatrical release, the scene where the alien puts its tail between Brett´s legs was cutted and used at Lambert and Parker´s death scene!
When I first saw this movie, the eerie otherworldly music from this scene (the film version of this scene) really gives me chills, and the way it was cut matched the music so well. This scene just doesn't have that for me. This scene is creepy, but not terrifying. Too much time to gauge Bret's reaction, too much time seeing what we're afraid of... makes it less visceral.
I guess I don't understand why he makes zero effort to get away. In the actual cut of the film he's the victim of a surprise attack and so it makes more sense.
The cut scene is scarier and works better for the move...after a long 1/2 hour opener with nothing happening, its good to have a death that's brutal, alone, dark, instant. BUT this scene is an amazing idea, probably by the actor. We've been long out of the food chain but I'm guessing when cornered by a predator, you'd revert back to being a scared animal. He first growls/snares like a cat raising his fur. When he sees it isn't working, he whimpers, begging for mercy. Great idea.
That's what I wondered - that his intentions in his head may have been to fight ferociously but he found his body rooted to the spot and his vocal cords so constricted with fear that he could bearly utter a sound - which, incidentally, is a bit like in a nightmare when you try to scream for help.
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The dangling chain sounds and rain like drippings adds so much atmosphere and texture to this brilliantly conceived scene… edited or not it’s so effective.
That Cat deserves an Academy Award for his brilliant acting performance.
Jonesie was the only sensible person in this whole film.
L M F A O BAWHAHAHA. LOL. TO FUNNY
That final shot of the cat always bothered me, like it was enjoying itself...
BTW, there is a book written from the point of view of Jones.
3aion 3 true, no cats were harmed during the making of this film - but the post traumatic stress was terrible, ‘cause you don’t know, man, you weren’t there!
goddamn his little furry face is so cute at the end. luv u jones
1:00, that tiny scene where you see the Alien creature, siting, dangling above Brett, is... scary and unnerving deluxe.
That shot is honestly the scariest shot I've seen in any movie because it's just sitting there quietly doing nothing... and blending in effortlessly. A sheer testament to how dangerous it is.
Yeah it was probably sleeping Brett made too much noise and that's how it managed to kill him by sneaking up on him!!
That's the part that always freaked me out when I saw the directors cut, Holy shit that was wild the way it crawled up and out of sight
I wonder if they had left it in the original cut would the audience recognize it for what it is.
It was suspended, not sitting.
Most people think that Lambert's scream is the scariest in the film but I find Brett's the scariest cause it sounds so real. Stanton's portrayal of terror is just so convincing. Especially with how he desperately calls out for his buddy Parker. RIP Harry Dean.
No john hurt gives the best performance in my opinion. He really looks like he is in agony as an alien is bursting out his chest. Still one of the most shocking scenes in a horror film.
The new films with the cgi crap just makes it look like a PlayStation 3 cutscene.
Lambert’s sheer paralyzing horror though…
@@DarrenTheman-r8r They've gotta go back to practical effects and lots of old school ways or we'll never see movies like this again. (Of course better stories too, stories are weak at the mo). Also take a look at Superman The Movie compared to 2006 and 2013 cringe versions.
This scene was much more effective with the Alien not being seen very well. Leaves much to the imagination.
Yeah. It looks too much like a guy in a suit when you can see the whole thing.
+JMD Nelson apparently you're too stupid to understand that this is the original appearance of the Xenomorph, and the first time it's fully grown form is shown on screen.
The actual film release reveal is much better, with less details about the creature shown until later points in the film.
JMD Nelson Um, yeah, but they probably didn't want it to look like that on screen, dumbie.
Yeah, everyone now knows what the xenomorph looks like, but in 1979 they didn't. The whole reason for the small glimpses of the creature early in the movie was to not give too much of it away. Even Ridley Scott was disappointed at the whole reveal of the creature later in the movie that it was clearly a guy in a suit. But if they revealed it like that earlier in the movie the overall impact of the creature would have suffered. The more you show something like the xenomorph, it becomes less special. It's probably why the xenomorphs lost their fear factor by the time of Aliens, we saw too much of them in that movie and seeing them get cut down by the Marines didn't help.
Didn't the xenomorphs wipe out majority of the Marines with ease? The alien was still dangerous and a huge threat, at no point did they have an advantage over them, they were clinging onto survival they were first attacked.
I don't know. The alien is supposed to have gore, but the original film scene is much more realistic. Showing less of the fully grown alien is better for the plot.
I agree.
The original film scene was very much so realistic yes, but you don't need gore just to have a frightening movie. This shows that the alien uses it's tail for more than what fans think it likes to do just because of the breeding it's race. This shows that the tail was used to bring it's victims closer in and seeing Ripley and Parker running forward and shouting his name explain why they told Dallas that they saw him being taken into the air ducts this scene was in the original book so it was accurate
Less is more with this film for sure this scene still scary regardless I like both versions but I am kinda glad it was cut down a little cause at this point of the film we see that it’s grown and it’s more of a surprise when you just see the head come down then the whole body.
*atmosphere
What the audience sees of the creature doesn't affect the plot.
If we learned one thing from Jaws it is that keeping your creature effects hidden creates tension
When I saw the original Alien in the theater, people actually fled during Kane's and Bret's deaths, a true testament to the terror imbued by this brilliant film. No other movie experience has even come close to this classic.
I was one of the people that fled. Imagine an 8 year old boy seeing this I was so scared I never forgot this film.
Who the hell would let an 8 year old watch this?
Rogue Cheddar yeah my mom and dad walked out as soon as the alien burst out of Kane. Pretty tame stuff by today's standards.
My grandfather. A Jehovah's Witnesses. He thought Alien was a "dinosaur" movie...haha!. I was scared and fascinated by the film and the horror, but my grandfather..well, ask Jesus...
I was a 6 year old boy and saw this in the theater opening night with my uncle. Screwed me up for weeks. Really when the facehugger emerged from the egg, that did me in for the rest of the film. I stuck with it, but man oh man did it screw up my sleep for awhile.
I was 10 years old when I went to see this with my dad in 1979. We had no idea what we were in for. Going to see ALIEN was not just another day at the movies.... it was an event! Lines were stretched around the block and the theater had the face hugger egg props in the lobby. People were so terrified of this movie, that many of them left the theater.
I saw it with my Dad as well....scared the crap out of me for a month 😅
Saw it with my older brother. Thaught it's some flying saucer thing, starring James Arness or so. Got traumatized for the rest of my youth.
Damn, people were soft back then
I’m impressed he was able to get you in to watch it as a ten year old!! 😳😂🥰
I do like seeing the alien dangling upside down and swaying with the chains. It reminds me of the hunting spiders who sometimes lay in wait for their prey.
I love that he growls at it. It's such an appropriate and animalistic response to being cornered, and really conveys the arrogance of humans who have forgotten what it feels like to be hunted.
While I agree with a lot of the people below about the appropriateness of the actual final cut that was made for the movie, it is really interesting to see the full length segments that were made up during production! Really cool thanks!
Brilliant. Truly terrifying. Stanton's emotions and screams make this even more horrific even after 35+ years!
Sound design is great in this scene. Love the sound of the drops hitting his hat
RIP Harry Dean Stanton. You'll be missed.
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@@MarcoGosatti43 wait the alien accidentally killed him during the filming of this scene
@@neoneherefrom5836 Accidentally?
@@MarcoGosatti43 why didn’t they use a stuntman trained to fight with aliens this is like Alec Baldwin rust
The close-ups of its mouth are terrifying.
@Dreamstate Bruh that looked like a water gun
I saw it first when I was 15 on video in 1985, alone, nobody home except for me. The other movies weren't produced yet. I first saw the mouth with it's saliva and all the transparent teeth and though WHAT IN GOOD HEAVENS IS THAT?!? I didn't know at that time that I was about to meet the absolute most terrifying film monster in history so far.
The way this alien killed people was very intense, it seemed like it enjoyed the terror its victims had so it took its time. Now as for the other films those aliens kinda just went for a quick kill and thats it. This creature had alot of charactor to it.
BrianScottNJx87 Yes, this is why the original film will always be the best, the mystery, the unknown, the terror, the first Alien stalking and killing its' victims like a sadistic serial killer. In Aliens the drones were acting on gathering Humans and protecting the Queen. There on in the other films, animals, cloned xenomorphs and a predator were the probably the changes in behavior.
That's because Alien is a slasher movie in space, so the Alien is exactly what you described
Cameron turned them into Zerg from Starcraft, oh well
In a documentary here on YT, Ridley Scott said he wanted to create "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in outer space. ;-)
Funny, when Cameron made them a hive mentality creature, StarCraft didn't exist...
Not to mention the part where it kills Lambert, where it starts moving its tail to her nether regions. Adding some perversion aren't we Sir Ridley?
They show the Alien at 1:00, just dangling there on the chains, but you wouldn't know how it would have looked yet.
Yeah. The camera lingers and pans across so much hardware and mechanisms and byzantine technology, when you do see the alien, you might easily take it to be just another cool detail of the _Nostromo,_ not the pale and robust worm that burst from Kane’s chest. But it makes sense that the alien would look like its host _and_ the ship. Where did the alien get all that mass from? It didn’t get it from the crew, obviously, since they were still alive at this point. I think the movie suggests that the alien somehow absorbed energy and matter from the ship itself. The animal that takes Brett would no longer be just “Kane’s son,” but a child of the _Nostromo_ as well.
*Of course, I could be wrong. It’s only my interpretation.
@@darkprose A little far fetched, but you're entitled to your opinion.
@@CHALETARCADEI agree the explanation is farfetched but the plot hole is true. I never actually thought about it but how can an organic alien grow to more than what it consumes
@@jamiehoward5538 It's not a plot hole at all, it's the core of the script, this creature is ALIEN, it's completely different from us, supposedly the perfect organism, so a creature that would grow very fast so it can defend itself fast and kill its prey within 24h. Makes sense to me.
Not to mention that it's never clear that the creature eats anything, it attacks viciously, yes, but consumes its preys? No, not as far as we can tell, so why assume tha it would need nourishment to grow? I certainly never did.
In the theatrical release, they should have at least left in the scene where Ripley and Parker run in and see a glimpse of the alien, the blood dripping down onto Parker would also have been great to see. Also, love Harry Dean Stanton's acting here, his stunned/shock response to first seeing the alien is great, it's so sad when he yells one last time for his friend Parker, poor Brett :(
I disagree for a couple of reasons. The scene is so quiet that Ripley and Parker must have been a long way off. This is implied by the long intro which built suspense as Brett moved further and further away. For them to come running in would have contradicted the former sense of isolation. It would also suggest that the ship was much smaller than it is which would make hunting the alien down seem easier which would then diminish the scene of Dallas entering the labyrinth of air ducts.
Also, don't you think Yaphet Kotto's acting was off? He looked as if he was expecting to be splattered with blood and felt it wasn't coming down quickly enough so that he was forced to spread his chest in order to *catch* the droplets to make the scene work how it was writtten (in another outtake I've seen he gets a bucket of blood dumped on him in one go).
Yeah...they should have come running after the whole scene with the cat staring up in that case. Now its a bit too Quick.
Arthur Workman Brett was in shock at the mere sight of it, just like Lambert was when she saw it. Basically scared stiff.
Arthur Workman in that case imagine: YOU had to go hunt this thing (keep in mind you know nothing about this creature at the time only that its "small") and then you stumble upon this man-sized creature that was just watching you the whole time, and its only intention is to kill you and everyone else on your ship. Fear can do a lot to a person. It can make them indecisive, or scare them stiff, or it can make them fight or make them flee. Not everyone is the same when they face fear, Brett was simply too afraid to move.
Arthur Workman It's called shock!
2:22 You can see a Human Skull in this thing's face
Another iconic feature removed by the cameron team
it was not removed you dumb. Aliens from 2 part have full black skin, not grey , like this alien in first movie.
Joseph Wasilitz Actually actual Drones were originally going to appear in Aliens but
during pre-production the creature's smooth carapace was removed out of
fear the fragile dome would crack during filming, a modification that
gave rise to the Warrior caste.
Khorn Demon The retardation of this comment speaks for itself.
The skull and dome made it look like it was born wearing a space suit. Horrible horrible.
First time seeing Alien, I was unnerved by the slow, almost gliding movement of the alien. Like it was always in complete control and not in a hurry. Like death itself, inevitable and unstoppable
The cats facial expressions are spot on. Some of the best acting in the history of film.
The cat look like it was saying, DAM!
😻
It had an Alsatian to help it perform
Oh my God! This is amazing! So creepy and terrifying, it must have taken ages for you to have edited this. I would be interested to see Alien Uncut when it's finished.
Poor Brett :'(
Bohdan Molodchykov yea feel the same way funny how my name is Brett
For real
*Name intensifies*
Uh hem
Superb work, I have never seen a lot of this footage, some of it was great to see the alien in more detail, especially after seeing the original so many times. There are certain scenes, such as the alien extending and the shots of its head in more detail I would have left as director, they are really nice. Don't look cheap or rubbery at all. You can also finally see the human skull in more detail too in the alien's head. Well done sir, for giving us this cut!
I woud think a real creature like this would kill much quicker , but it's smart enough to be totaly slient until it's up on you, then imagine the grip it has to barly hold you in it's hands ,so even if you try to escape you can't before it swipes you with it's tail to knock you down.
I use this as the perfect example of why Alien: Covenant failed when it came to scenes with the xenomorph. Compare the drawn out silence and suspense of this scene with the sudden, no-build, and throwaway death scenes in Covenant and the difference is stark.
alienanxiety i actually loved that movie, but I hated how the xenomorph was all CG.
Yes, my impression of the film is that it's almost entirely like that. Maybe just one scene where they have time to ponder how screwed they are. All the other times it's a struggle against something or being jumped at by something. There is no room for suspense in that.
I thought the death scene where the neomorph was literally standing behind the woman in the bathroom in davids lair was good, the things were more creepy with their little butt mouths.
And also why "the man in the suit" is still the best... because the alien is born (in most cases) from a human host. Having that link is what makes it even scarier.
I love how it's hidden in plain sight at 1:00 Other than that this would be showing too much of the creature too soon if it was like this in the film. I suppose it's fine for us who already know what it looks like and what will happen to the scene. As a separate clip, mind you.
Yes, this is pieced together from outtakes, etc. we've seen in various home video releases over the years, but as this is a fan edit, I have no issue with the length of the scene. Indeed, it provides a greater look at the quite comprehensive material Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings had at their disposal in the editing room for 'Alien', and helps to illuminate further their editorial decisions. Clearly, Scott shot a LOT of alien footage, and the decision to only offer the audience very abstract and tight glimpses of the creature in the finished film was a choice clearly made in post-production.
It's nice to have all this material assembled in one place, and to see how significantly differently the film could have played out with another director and/or editor. Thanks for your hard work, DestronTC - and I would love to see the final film reassembled and made available to fans in this way. :)
R.I.P. 2 character actor Harry Dean Stanton(Brett). Passed away 9/15/17 at age 91. Quite a career that spanned 60yrs. Love this scene.
They are trying to recreate some lost scenes of this movie using cgi for charcter standins
The movie would take FOREVER at this pace... Also, this is the first reveal of the ALIEN... had it been shown originally like this, there would have been no mystery. I'm not criticizing the work, just pointing out that it's far more interesting as an isolated scene than presented in the film this way.
I agree completely
Given the jumps in quality, this looks like test footage for the scene. The final product we got feels like a combination of the classic horror staple of 'don't show too much of the creature in the beginning' and, as you mentioned, consideration for pacing. Personally, after being a 20+ year fan of this film, it was nice to see the entirety of what they had to work with, compared to what we got.
+Loren Helgeson its just an assembly of footage that was released in various forms on various releases. Trust me.
This is true. All deleted shots and scenes from dvds I did my best to smash back together.
+DestronTC Well, you did a great job. Kudos!
Harry Dean Stanton RIP, rattling chains, rainwater and hissing cats will never seem the same. Rest In Peace dude
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@@MarcoGosatti43 "why is it, that whatever Parker says, all you say is "Right", Brett? You're just like a regular parrot"
@@mistermatix8241 Right...
@@MarcoGosatti43 Parker: "hey man, what are you? Some kinda parrot?"
Amazing set design, everything looks grandiose and monumental.
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2:18 Amazing. should have kept it in the movie, The Alien Monster Staring right at you, imagine the shock in the theater!
While this extended kill scene is effective and interesting in itself - - I can see why Scott edited it down. It makes the movie too much of a gore film, the xenomorph is revealed in its entirety too early in the story, the monster is exposed with silly superdexterity.
This scene's final edit(in the movie) reminds all of the old adage: sometimes less is more.
but it can't see...
Everytime I rewatch this scene I thank god somebody had sense enough to cut it down. This scene is one of the most important if not the most important in the film and if left like this the movie would be tarnished irrevocably
The alien is a demon magician, can levitate.
Xendrius I always wonder that too?? What was keeping the Alien suspended in the air? *clearly cables or suspension wires* but It doesn't look like the Alien itself is holding anything with its hands or tail?? So how is it floating ?? Odd... Maybe why this scene was cutt down slightly ?
The Alien is holding itself in place with its dorsal horns, they can be manipulated, In the nest in Aliens, that's how the Alien lunges out of the wall and takes out Dietrich
Major Mo I always wondered that as well. Thank you
I've actually read the script for this scene, and all it sais when the Alien appears is "It defies gravity".
On the storyboards its feets seems to be holding on a chain or pipe or something. I guess when the script says that it defies gravity it probably means that no weight can hinder it.
They cut more than an hour off the film to make it two hours in the final release.
And while we can all agree that this cut (thank you for posting, btw) was a little long-winded with weird cuts and didn't flow), there was another non-theatrical release version on HBO about 4 years ago that showed the Alien merely hanging above as if asleep... the rest is the same as the theatrical release except until Parker and Ripley look upward and Parker is splattered with blood. It was enough, and it explained why Parker - in the theatrical release - knew that this "thing was big, like a man..." This should've made it into the final release.
I would like to see that version. I saw director cut but this what you mentioned looks far better.
It's a shame they cut this, considering it showcases how brutal the Alien was when it came to the art of killing. But then, the suspense of the reveal wouldn't have been so influential since there were full-body shots of the creature.
I can see why Herr Direktor Scott edited it down. It makes the movie too much of a gore film, the xenomorph is revealed in its entirety too early in the story, the monster is exposed to be a master gymnast with silly superdexterity.
This scene's final edit(in the movie) reminds of the old adage: sometimes less is more.
A good way with words, you.
I think Ridley’s original cut of Brett’s death needed no improvement, but I would not want to be without all the stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor. Not sure how other people feel about it, but the scariest part of this extended version is Harry Dean Stanton performance. It’s like he’s building to some mindless scream, reverting to a child or an infant, puffing out his cheeks like a bull about to charge, and then he begins to whimper! How often does a victim in a horror movie literally whimper, whimper like a frightened dog? That was such a Lovecraftian reaction. Lovecraft’s narrators often just lose their minds when confronted with ancient and cosmic horrors. Stanton’s performance here feels like that, as if his mind could not cope with what he was seeing, watching the almost gentle way the alien reaches out to his head. For a second, his mind returns long enough to scream for Parker. Though the alien is about to physically attack and take him, the psychological attack of the alien’s sheer presence is devastating.
@dSkoolgamerz
It's not a shame at all. This is a shit sequence, lessening everything.
Yeah Joseph Charles just the sheer presence of the alien can make people feel to terrified to run or move
A lot of the additional material is from the cutting room, the original thought process was that the ALIEN could run up and down using the chains like a spider, so I think the shots where it is just suspended like a circus act detracts from the tension of the scene and I can see why it was omitted. It is always incredible to see this creature up close, but sometimes less is more I think
I still think the original"Alien"is the most terrifying movie in cinema history.The things this creature did to these people is beyond horrific.I saw it at movies at age ten and 2/3rds of audience left because they just could not take what they were seeing.And I was sick on busride home.Never forget it
It's crazy how us kids were allowed in theaters back in the day. I remember watching a lot of movies at 10 years old that I can't believe.
This longer scene honestly creep't me out more than the original cut version.
me too! much more creepy than original scene or short scene.
Me too I want all alien movie are like this.
Same you get too see how scared Brett felt and how painful it must've been
Title: "Jonesey and Alien team up to kill brett"
THIS is why the first film is always gonna be my favorite out of the series. The subliminal sexuality the Alien has, in my opinion, is really shown here. The way its head and face rises up and it's dripping with saliva and how it's almost elegantly observing Brett just seconds before killing him. That's what makes the Big Chap a horrifying piece of art in a way. It pulls off being fluid and graceful but equally violent and frightening on so many levels.
Yeah - I mean Aliens is my favourite film OAT in terms of pure watchability... but when it comes to doing this creature justice none of the other films even come close to the original. The Alien here is so gracefull, so unpredictable... and is in absolutely no hurry whatsoever in murdering the crew. It even seems intrueged by its fellow humans, studying them for a while and touching them before violently murdering them (or not, as the coccoon scene shows). Ridley Scott did a masterful job of bringing H.R. Giger's art to life in terms of behaviour and tone. We will never have a cinematic monster this utterly terrifying ever again.
My most scary moment sitting in the theater in 1979, was Brett's point of view approaching the landing gear room with the slow track into the wall slot. Mind you it was in 70mm on the theater's biggest screen! I knew he was going to get it just not when or how!
I saw it in the theater as well only as a 9 year old I was so terrified by this point in the film I think I was temporarily insane.
GiaTheAttitudeCat I saw this when I was 8 I couldn't go into any dark room without fearing I'll wake up with a dead facehugger by me and die in a hour or so
GiaTheAttitudeCat I first saw it at a young age in the early 80s It's still the only monster that makes me nervous When I played Alien isolation I almost had a stroke I think I was petrified of it when young n its stayed with me
1776 Freedom Your mother dragged you to see it? Damn your mum sounds cool.
Huh, seems there was alot of sneaking kids into rated R films! Friends Bday @ 6 of us went, I was 10 then and First nightmare that night was me waking to a facehugger racing across his floor at me while I was in my sleeping bag. I then woke up, like in American Werewolf, the waking in a dream but still dreaming! I do think revealing more later in the film would've been better. I had to get a good look at the Alien from the Kenner doll soon after, which I still have.
The cat could have saved him, but didn't lift a paw to help
Jones, like Ash, was working for the company in obtaining the alien.
The size, toughness, vicious cruelty, and deadly power of this xenomorph from the first 'Alien' as compared to later versions in the subsequent films has often been remarked upon from several observers and sources. There's a theory that this xeno was in fact a 'drone' as opposed to the 'warrior' caste of the subsequent films - note its slightly larger size, smooth, as opposed to ridged, skull carapace, possibly even greater strength and toughness, and possibly slightly higher intelligence. The 'warriors' of the later films are mainly quick strike and attack swarm creatures, conditioned to defend the hive en masse at all costs, while the somewhat slower yet stronger drones are the 'workers' who build and maintain the hive and do all the hard labor and 'heavy lifting' at the will of the queen. It is also theorized that the drones, unlike the warriors, are somewhat more intelligent and have the quasi-hermaphroditic ability to slowly convert biological/organic matter outside their own species into viable reproductive vessels to propagate the species in the absence if a queen - as evidenced by the 'egg-morphing' of Brett and Dallas literally into eggs - an ability, which this theory presumes, the warrior caste lacks.
K.
This scene taught me to never take a shower with my eyes closed, and never in the dark...lol 😂😂😂😎👌🏾
Jesus, such strength by just squeezing Brett's head the alien made him bleed out a lot.
They should definitely have left that in, this death scene would have been twice as disturbing
it´s no squeezing it, the alien´s claws are cutting him
@@omegarugal9283 might be a bit of both.
How can he still be moving on the floor after the head shot?
@@talonanthony Good question, although we know now that the alien wanted to capture him to turn him into an egg, so maybe he wanted to injure him, not outright kill him, so the inner jaw didn't go super deep. Just a possibility.
I love the fact that in movietheory less is more. You add something to a movie by cutting it.
They should've put the extra seconds where the alien stands up and you see through the clear head, the close up of the aliens face, and just a couple seconds with him squeezing Brett's head. That would to me add just that little extra terror
LESS IS MORE! I'm so glad these scenes were edited from the final cut, less is more is what made and still makes this such a good theatrical horror story, this is one of the only horror films that glue my eyes to the screen with a fast heart rate... or am I thinking about Alien: isolation
My friend, Dean Drabin, did the Foley work for this scene. It's flawless.
2:40 Brett didn't run because he was trying to handle the alien like you would handle a stray dog.....you don't run or show your back to a stray dog otherwise it'll attack you. You can see Brett is trying to assert his dominance as the alpha male by puffing his cheeks and trying to stare the alien down....unfortunately, this didn't work out too well for Brett because the alien submits to no man. The A in alien stands for alpha, the B in Brett stands for beta.
Heh, I like that.
Totallly, not realistic predator behavior other, then it being silent before it has you in it's attack range.
@@aolcom-nl9qb in my eyes it was predator behavior. It was sort of snake attack slow and creepy. Even mice can not run from snake even if they are much quicker. This is more realistic than runaway scenario. And also you don't show your back to the close threats rather than incoming. When is tiger next to you I want to be there and watch when it cut off your surrounding escapes. Even tiger starts growl little and be less careful about sounds he make due to its sure of its supper.
I like it.
Peter Vlčko As a animal expert I'm not intimated by any Predator of any world, however I agree with any creatures such as this version of a alien predator you back away slowly not looking it in the eyes if it even has them,
Everything in this movie was a masterpiece.
Just shows the power of editing, so much scarier seeing less and making it quicker.
The shot when it appears over his shoulder still gives me goosebumps
Personally I love this, I think it is absolutely terrifying. I'd love to see a full uncut version of the film.
Me too!
I that was the full uncut version in this clip of the scene?
Mini shot at 3:26 (even if lasts for less than half a second) should've been kept in.
Looked like it was going to take his hat off for a moment there.
I thought it was too, but that would've been too comedic.
Shane Carney 😁 I thought that too!
And dance with it like in Spaceballs.
I like how he just stands there and takes it like a champ
None of the extra scenes are properly edited and post processed. So of course they look out of Place and too revealing. But I Believe that with magic of said editing, Music, sfx, lighting ect many deleted scenes would work like a charm in an extended cut.
I think I prefer the other version you see in the movie. I don't need to see so much of the Xenomorph to be terrified. Less is more, as they say.
4:04 WTF did I just witness?
haven't seen this footage since my old VHS box set in the early/mid 90's! i still have the T-shirt that came with it awesome thank you
*At that very moment, the cat lost 8 of it's 9 lives.*
This was very good! Hell, I was wondering what blue ray version this was on for a minute! Nice
First John Hurt and how Stanton. Creepy, considering that was the order of their death in the films. Tom Skerritt should becareful.
I was thinking about this same thing when his death was announced earlier.
Even though he was in Aliens, don't forget Bill Paxton. :(
Na hes cocooned, yaphet kotto should be careful.
Fantastic job at the editing table. The short version works so much better.
I can't recall from the original, but that scene where the Alien is suspended up in the chains is so damn awesome....I don't remember seeing that until I had the DVD Extended & Blu-Ray. The only other added footage that really worked is seeing the Alien Tail sting Brett's neck. They have also explained that is how they capture Humans for Hosts by paralyzing them.
I could have sworn I saw a longer shot where brett struggled to pull the alien's arms off his head somewhere
3:35 Cat: "I've seen things..."
This was the first time the full alien was seen and immediately they show too much. Far more mysterious and shocking in the final cut.
2:18 That was a really cool shot. Too bad they cut it out.
I would agree (it really showed off the Alien) but it would have really diminished the reveal unfortunately. But goddamn, isnt it a beauty
It was basically the same as the shot of its mouth opening to kill Brett in the theatrical version, so I don't know.
You really see the skull.
i find this shot particularly scary. it looks very believable to me. Wish they have left it. ...there are few other bits however that looked cheap. Good editing can make wonders!
They should have just put that shot in when jt came to Lambert’s death.
Jesus, I thought this WAS from the original 4 hour cut of Alien!! Very good job with the editing, my man!!
Holeee Shit! This extended scene is the first time for me. poor guy getting his head squeezed like that.
It looks so goofy dangling there and spinning slightly
i'm very glad this was cut.
This attack scene has always mystified me. It never looked right , the way the Alien drops in behind Bret and the way it takes off with him. The Alien elevates and doesnt use its legs. This extended scene shines more light on what the production team where doing. Im pretty Ridley Scott was never truly happy with this scene. It doesn't quite work.
Yeah I’m still confused. The alien was hovering above on the chains, dropped down without using its hand and then climbed the chains again while using both hands to hold Brett
How exactly was it moving up and down the chains?
I can understand why they cut certain scenes. The more you show of it the more obvious it becomes it's a bloke in a rubber costume. I think this limitation would be easier to overcome with advanced effects these days.
Thank God, Ridley edited this scene. The original cut is so much better.
2:44 what kind of noise is he makin?
It's a sad attempt at trying to scare it off by growling at it.
The story is that Harry Dean Stanton had not ever played 'fear' before onscreen, and he was unsure how to proceed. But it's obvious his instincts as an actor were right, as it's clear that Brett simply doesn't know what he is looking at (although there is some form of primal recognition that this 'thing' is exceptionally dangerous). How do you convey a reaction to the utterly unknowable? But it's entirely in keeping with character: Brett isn't a verbal person, and so HDS plays his reaction as reverting to some kind of monosyllabic groans, as befits a prey item about to be devoured by a huge set of teeth. :)
The editing in the original scene also attempts to reproduce Brett's confused perspective: the extremely tight (and almost abstract) close-ups of the alien's head and teeth deny easy assimilation of what we're seeing. This is why this extended fan edit is illuminating, as it shows how drastically Ridley Scott reigned in the alien onscreen, preferring instead to distort and infer its appearance - even when the Giger design was so overwhelmingly unique and original. Most other directors would have gone straight to the 'money shot', thus sacrificing everything to please the audience.
Thats the sound of a grown man shitting his pants.
It’s pretty interesting how the xenomorph can grow up so fast.
Extremely frightening! Better than what was in the film *except* that this really gives away the appearance of the alien more than would have been right for the whole film.
I love Harry Stanton's unusual vocal response. Although I can't figure out what would justify such a response it made the scene more frightening and realistic somehow, perhaps simply because it didn't conform to expectations. Was the idea that he wanted to try to be tough and fight it but found himself incapable of moving and unable even to muster up a battle cry?
Another possible reason why they didn't extend the scene was that given the amount of blood that was evident from the first attack (which wasn't shown in the film in the final cut) Brett would probably have lost consciousness and been incapable of screaming or thrashing about. Whether he would have been killed the instant the alien's tongue smashed his skull is actually more probable than what they went with i.e. Brett being able to have an extended death scream.
..also liked your cocoon one as well....always bugged me the Directors cut included the cocoon scene but was not as frightening as the deleted scene version, something to do with the sounds Dallas makes.... also never explained why Ripley, time running out went down there in the first place....
I thought exactly the same thing. I happened to be watching Alien and was stunned and delighted to see that they'd included the 'deleted' scene only to feel let down by what *wasn't* the cocoon sequence I knew. I almost felt sick with horror at the deleted scene that was a bonus on the special edition DVD release. The whole thing fully conveyed the nightmare of being paralysed and gradually eaten away/coverted into the alien nest, fully able to experience every moment of it. Dallas' moans were unlike anything I'd heard in a film before. That scene would have been the worst part of Ripley's whole experience. Even if she hadn't had a relationship with Dallas, she would never get that nightmare vision out of her head.
I saw the original in the year of it's release when I was 9 years old. This movie was so horrific, word of mouth was more effective advertising than the official advertising - in Australia anyway. It was the subject of conversation - a must watch for horror movie buffs and raising respect for the sci-horror genre.
At 54 years old, I now get to see for the first time this extended version and I am lost for words. Lost for words as to how this was not included from the beginning.
It is pure extreme horror, but combined with the violence and gore that even at my desensitized age from a regular course of sci/horror fiction, find myself shocked.
I can feel Brett's fear; followed by a sense of his hopelessness in his futility of growling at this purely evil creature (hoping to ward it off wile maintaining self restraint so as not to aggravate it any further), followed by the suffering he goes through in the creatures crushing grip and creature's tail (proceeding between his legs, up his back to his neck at which time his pain so extreme his self-restraint fails by his growling transforming into outbursts of screaming), followed by the inevitable "kiss" of death.
Horror movies and even real-life events have shown some pretty awful ways to go and even in consideration of all of those, this would be a death preceded by cruel and unusual punishment inflicted solely to torture its prey to maximize its pleasure at inflicting maximum suffering.
I can see why there is the opinion that H R Giger was into the very dark side of the occult and this creature both in form and behavior may be inspired from.
I love the original scene so much... it's one of the best creature reveals maybe in any scifi/horror film. But, I do like seeing some of the experiments they did with the movement of the xenomorph. Originally, this thing was truly alien. It didn't move like a person, necessarily, or some wild beast. Its movements, its thoughts, its motivations, were truly alien, and they tried to capture that.
This footage and the footage just before Lambert's/Parker's deaths where it crab-walks into the room--to me at least--tell of a much more frightening creature than the 'bugs' we ended up getting in James Cameron's film (which I also love).
Still, good job on this. I wouldn't change the original scene at all, but it's nice to see where their thought processes were going, and what was lost in translating the sequels.
Fun fact there was about 3 different cats they used for this film
This Alien is so different compare to the mindless ones in the second film.
Torni 3945 I think it's because this one wasn't a drone like those ones. Notice the different head (That might just be because of the director) I don't know, I just like to think of it like that.
I too like to think this one Alien was a one of a kind of it's species.
TheReal MovieFreak Actual Drones were originally going to appear in Aliens but
during pre-production the creature's smooth carapace was removed out of
fear the fragile dome would crack during filming, a modification that
gave rise to the Warrior caste.
Torni 3945 perhaps it's because he's not connected to a hive mind like the ones in alien
Torni 3945 the aliens in the second one were not mindless. It may have seemed that way since they were all acting as soliders who would do anything to protect their queen. But they were certainly still smart. Remember the scene in aliens when the power goes out? And ripley says they cut the power? And hudson was like "hiw can they cut the power? Theyre animals!" That shows that the aliens were still much more intelligent then the average predator.
They were very smart for leaving the xenomorph in the shadows when they released the movie. That being said, seeing this footage is fucking awesome.
I think it would've been just fine in the movie. The more like this, the better. Scary! And I don't think they showed too much of the alien to keep it scary. I mean, we've known what it looks like since the 70s and we're still watching them!
In the original theatrical release, the scene where the alien puts its tail between Brett´s legs was cutted and used at Lambert and Parker´s death scene!
It was probably a prop
@@thedrugstorecowboy2948 sorry, my English is not too good. What is a prop?
@@carloscaaete a item used in a flim
RIP Harry Dean Stanton
When I first saw this movie, the eerie otherworldly music from this scene (the film version of this scene) really gives me chills, and the way it was cut matched the music so well. This scene just doesn't have that for me. This scene is creepy, but not terrifying. Too much time to gauge Bret's reaction, too much time seeing what we're afraid of... makes it less visceral.
Sad that his last words were calling in vain for his friend Parker
These cats are funny creatures they sit staring so long they forget to think and then purr. When a cat purrs it knows everything.
Looks more terrifying with the eye sockets.
Wow. Its such a cool thing to see some unseen/ un-used footage of the Film 45y later
I simply adore Jonesy's face at 04:04 .... he saw everything....!!!!
Poor cat
I guess I don't understand why he makes zero effort to get away. In the actual cut of the film he's the victim of a surprise attack and so it makes more sense.
great acting by the cat.
This scene scared the hell out of me as a teen
The cut scene is scarier and works better for the move...after a long 1/2 hour opener with nothing happening, its good to have a death that's brutal, alone, dark, instant. BUT this scene is an amazing idea, probably by the actor. We've been long out of the food chain but I'm guessing when cornered by a predator, you'd revert back to being a scared animal. He first growls/snares like a cat raising his fur. When he sees it isn't working, he whimpers, begging for mercy. Great idea.
That's what I wondered - that his intentions in his head may have been to fight ferociously but he found his body rooted to the spot and his vocal cords so constricted with fear that he could bearly utter a sound - which, incidentally, is a bit like in a nightmare when you try to scream for help.