Alien: Uncut - Lambert and Parker's Deaths Extended
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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1:54 (throws Parker against some wall pipes)
Xenomorph: "OH SHIT! Are you ok?"
My thoughts exactly!😂 The Xenomorph got a bit too excited while filming and ran over to check if he was okay.
Actually that didn't end up in the final cut 😁
The posture and hand placement of the Xeno bending over Parker definitely has a bit of Beaver Cleaver "Gee Whiz Mister ... are you all right?" Too much of a Good Samaritan pose, so it had to get cut.
also a wire is visible
@@michaelottway6553 yep..good eye
Bolaji Badejo's slow, elegant movements made the creature so much more terrifying. He had a dancer's grace.
Brin Hauptmann
And this was the only role he ever played
Even with the rough footage and unfinished fx he was terrifying. That shot where he rises up...aghhhh...
She*
Veronica Cartwright talked about how the person in the Alien suit took ballet, yoga&tai~chai(hope I spelled it right) in order to move so gracefully on the behind the scenes DVD. I recommend getting the Alien Quadriligy because it's got two versions of each movie plus behind the scenes
@@Tyler-ll2ic Bolaji was a dude
Honestly I just loooove this xenomorph. It's so slow, smart. It knows how strong it is and just takes its time. It really feels like you could actually talk to the creature and it seems kind of fascinated with humans. Such a brilliant movie...
That's why Aliens suck to me. I mean the sequel.
Dr. Peter Venkman : We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft's okay! He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble!
The way it sits there like a coiled spider
In the cut footage the Alien looks to be studying Lambert as if it was curious about her. Perhaps it was the fact she was a female and it had only encountered male humans at that point.
El poder de fascinación y terror que el primer alien engendra en la gente que mata jamás será superado en las otras entregas
1:58 the Xenomorph goes over to him like “dude you ok sorry man”
2:09 he’s like “sorry man you just startled me”
Glad this wasn’t in the movie but it’s great to see it. Parker was one of my fave characters ever. Just loved Yaphet Koto. Let’s be honest. It’s a perfect movie with one of the best casts in history. Everything is perfect
I’ve never thought about how much more animal-like this Alien is than any of the others that we’ve seen. Just look at the way that it plays with its victim, almost as if it’s enjoying itself.
The most horrific scene in this movie !!! Absolutely terrifying !!! And just the way that Lambert had died left me cold inside !!! And Parker being the warrior that he is tried his best at saving her up until he was slaughtered !!!
1:56 Yaphet gets hoisted through air by a wire cable attached to his back and Bolaji comes to pick him up. Timeless movie work But kinda takes the scare out. Great composition though.
Glad they didn't use too much of this footage, it's hilarious! A man in an alien costume lol! 🤣
The Xenomorph is still one of the scariest Creatures in Sci-fi horror!
The alien just casually sitting in the middle of the room was kind of funny. It's like he was chilling. I half expected him to have a beer in his hand. I think it was a good idea to cut that footage.
It is quite obvious why they cut that scene, although the final scene clearly seems like something is missing.
Nice editing, but it does makes you realise why Ridley Scott opted to remove a lot of the shots showing the full Alien costume.
This is good to know, now I understand why Farfield had shown up to the Prometheus ship in the bug pose.
The only thing I don’t understand is Engineer + Goo = human and all life. But Goo+Human = all death.
It's so goofy how Lambert just sits there letting the alien get her, & same with Parker. The alien just sat there for a second watching her too.
Fear?
I don’t love the shadow of the alien entering the room either. It looks kinda goofy, like it’s playing a joke. If they just cut to it sitting there, that would be better. Even the extended tail, but the crab walk had to go.
It is nice to see the alien rise because that’s the only time we really see the size juxtaposed to a human. Also the image of it crushing Parker’s head was pretty wicked too.
There was a lot of good in there, but a lot of goofy as well. Unfortunately they left some of the goofy in the theatrical cut.
Why is the Alien moving about on its backside like a dog with worms? Very bizarre. And the scene where the Alien's tail goes up between her legs is missing here.
Stephen Davis it was meant to be bizzare. And the bit were the tail goes up between the legs were Bret's legs originally.
Yes....I spotted that in the clip where Brett mat his demise. It was exactly the same scene.
I'm so glad they edited the xenomorph's crab walk and "erection"...looked both silly and too much like a guy in a suit...the rest of the scenes here had promise, though...
This was probably in the 4 hour cut sneak preview in texas
And this shows the problem with modern horror and monster film less is more cutting away and hearing there screams instead leaves it to your imagination .
0:48 when Mr Xenomorph approaches Lambert.
What the hell cut this dramatic Scene from this Genius movie?i understand why🫣🫢
Never has a character in a movie convinced me so much that they were genuinely terrified. Veronica Cartwright was completely convincing and kudos to her on her performance.
Absolutely 💯 agree with you there...she looked completely terrified, what a performance 👏
She brilliant in alien and invasion of the body snatchers
I didn’t think the movie was that scary, and the pacing was off. Actually, could have been better if it was shorter
She did amazing work in Invasion of the Body Snatchers as well.
@@Master-Works hey dude, i watch this movie in 1980 when im only 7 years old. This was scary. sorry
Ridley Scott was right to show less of the Alien. The most frightening thing about this movie is the fact that you never see the Alien running and chasing people, it knows it doesn't have to. It takes its time and toys with its victims.
Sometimes less is more!
It doesn't toy with its victims: that implies ideation of behalf of of the alien, which is directly in opposition to the purity of the animal's instincts and ferocity (Ash's words).
It isn’t toying with anyone. It’s surviving. it didn’t ask to be trapped on that ship. The alien isn’t hunting the crew. The crew are hunting it.
@@GlennBroadway Found the xenomorph sympathizer.
Yes, like Spielberg did in Jaws. Now a days CGI can make monsters seem real and not like you're looking at a guy in a suit.
Interesting scene, but it also demonstrates how important editing is to a film!
You figure that out yourself?
@@satnav1980 no he had my help! So I should get some credit for this discovery!
@@jacobsaccount9353 yes, you deserve it, both of you.
@@jacobsaccount9353 yeah but i helped you, so i should also get some credit!
@@WiredLain_ I invented film editing, so there.
The sounds of Lambert’s distress is more terrifying than anything you could be shown.
Lambert was being poked by the scorpion tail. That confirms how the xenomorph turns people into eggs.
I like the sound the xeno makes so much "ggrrrrr bbbbrrrr" so scary!
Just hearing the panting, hyperventilating, gasping for air, and scream is terrifying. Visually leaving to one’s imagination what happened to Lambert is genius horror method.
Sound design for this and blade runner were PHENOMENAL.
It's almost like it's laughing as it rapes/kills poor Lambert!
The Lambert Death Sounds & Screams are still one of the scariest things I'll ever remember.........and then to hear silence over the intercom is just as chilling
and the alien's roar
@@summer7034 i do not think it roared. apart from its pained screeched at the end its relatively silent. I Liked what i thought was a rattling sound it made as if excited but its part of the soundtrack score.
That's what always scared me about this scene, I remember in the 80's watching this as a child seeing Lamberts frozen petrified horror was just amazing the actress did a hell of a job showing her fear. And those sounds you heard when you saw Ripley running down the hall trying to find them really sent chills down your spine and that blood curdling screech at the end? They sounded incoherent and animalistic it's no wonder people asumed she was raped by the alien, I mean look at the how the cresture attacks, they don't kill they breed so, it makes a lot of sense, especially since Lambert's death was off screen
@@toebeans31 def agree and to show Parker while Lambert's foot was hanging Ripleys face said it all.
While ripley is frantically running ,yup. Awesome 😁 greet scene.
I'm sorry, but that little crab walk takes away all the suspense for me.
It looks ridiculous.
@@MiloDC which is why it was cut :p
Idk , it has that somewhat disturbing feel to it
1:00
I swear the Alien smiles at her... that’s pretty freaken creepy
It looks so goofy and off character..... is that the right word? Either way why would a Xenomorph do that? That doesn't make sense 😂
Was this just some random comic relief so we would forget how scary the Xenomorph is for a second?
1:55 "Oh shit man, I'm so sorry are you alright?"
Here, let me give you a kiss ;P
Alien was one of the first movies I remember that broke the rules about who survives. Many people were shocked when Dallas died early on, as it was assumed 'the Captain' would live (and probably be the one to kill the alien). Having the black guy and two women as the last survivors was as 'alien' a concept as the actual xenomorph!
dont forget about Night of the Living Dead.
@@thievingcthulhu8632 Oh yeah! At that ending, we're left wondering if the guy shot the black dude because he genuinely thought he was a zombie, or if he did it because he was black.
@@SStupendous yea, amazingly dark ending.
@@thievingcthulhu8632 I mean, it was in black and white so it had to be dark
Also in Dawn of the Dead the survivers are a black man and white woman.
I always hate how Parker sacrificed himself for nothing, trying to keep the xeno focused on killing him long enough for Lambert to run away. Even his last words implored her "Get out of the room!" and she just stands there frozen with fear.
Ah!
That's because it's the natural reaction of terror or dread. She's absolutely petrified. If anything he ruined his chances by not just blasting the flame thrower.
Much like a Woman about to be violated!
@@michaelgrey7854 Ironically, the sounds she made when the alien was killing her made me think she was being violated.
To be honest it looked like she was cornered.
This is interesting but the theatrical edit is definitely better.
wow.....that version looked bad..you can tell it's a man in a suite..so glad they cut it and shown what we saw at the cinema.
suit Unless you're talking about music. Fix it!!
@scarsun; @offmarket: I totally agree. I wish I didn't see it! It really looks so hokey.
Imagine if they had left this rubbish in--the movie would not be considered the masterpiece it is deservedly known as now.
Offmarket investments
Exactly. Jaws took the same approach. The more shark you see, the more you see a mechanical object
@@offmarketinvestments9770 Oh, give me a break. The cut when it was getting up to show how big it was was great.
Lambert's off screen death is the most disturbing. The deadliest tool in a sci-fi horror is our imagination. Course we can't imagine what happened.
sure you can.. the alien was moving his tail up her back side i belive he penitrated her pussy or asshole with it and shoved it all the way up to her mouth where it came out... a most horrible death meaning the alien enjoyed it
Jerry Stillwell...the scene with the tail going through the legs is actually from Brett’s extended death scene.
You sound like you're in junior high lol! @@jackoneill8585
Absolutely true. People today dont seem to have the imagination or attention span, and need it all spelling out to them. It's what you don't see what scares you.
I think it was the best moment! I really hated her as a character! As long as she was alive she was just such a annoying bitch! Just crying and complaining all the time. I haven't actually seen the movie in a while but I'm pretty sure she was this annoying so I did not and I mean did NOT feel bad for her, in fact I was happy when she died! I understand she was scared but the bitch got to have some basic survival skills and understand that she would have a better chance of survival if she had just grown a pair of balls and shut the fuck up!
I loved how Lambert actually saw the Alien for the first time, but being extremely anxious and terrified by it, she went into denial for a few seconds, and only after she was completely overwhelmed by horror did she turn around.
Right? I think she saw the shadow of the alien but mustve assumed it was Parker because of the humanoid shape and so she briefly glanced at it but was in shock at what she was seeing.
It wasnt until she fully turned around did she realize that she was cornered and looked like she was about to throw up.
I saw this in 1979 and have never realized that! You're right, she only saw the chestburster version but not the fully matured version until that moment. Horrific.
@@kirk1968 everyone has that response which I thought was a brilliant touch to the film. Brett thinks he's looking for a little scurrying creature and is overwhelmed when he sees it. Parker only knows "whatever it was it was big" Dallas has no idea what he's facing in the vent, Lambert is overwhelmed when she sees it, and so is Parker "oh my god" and even Ripley doesn't see the alien until the shuttle sequence. The element of the unknown amongst the crew was so well done
@@patriceaqa288 Excellent observations! Dallas...oh man. Parker said "it was big" as you said, but that's all he really had to go on. Turns around in the vent, sees a brief flash of silver teeth and gets a hearty welcome to getting cocooned.
You might be right, but I'm not sure I like it better. It plays like one of those delayed reaction gags in a Looney Tunes cartoon
Some of these wides really dissipate any tension: far too much shown and far too slowly. The late, great Terry Rawlings did a magnificent job with Scott's coverage and really ratcheted up the tension in the Theatrical cut, and it's in no small part down to him that ALIEN remains such a terrific experience after four decades.
I agree that they really dragged out the scenes a bit too much.
Killed the suspense sometimes
It was the alien doing a weird "crabwalk" for me. It looked too human, and not in a scary way- more a "look at this goofy bastard" way.
RS isn't all that his movies are full of mistakes I feel for TR has to finish these movies into something half decent .. god-awful Prometheus and the recent Covenant lol
@@chasam1234 Every film ever made has mistakes, that's just the nature of the art. You make it sound like Ridley Scott has a corner on the market, which is really disengenuous. BTW, Terry Rawlings didn't edit 'Prometheus' or 'Covenant'.
Give me "a man in a rubber suit" to covenant's CG any day
word!
Cast Javier Botet as the Xenomorph in a new movie!
Covenant was terrible beyond measure.
The CGI alien in Covenant, jumping around like a cartoon character, was awful. It really was just like a video game. They first did a full CGI alien in Alien Resurrection, it didn't look too bad but it's not threatening.
Only the first film makes the alien seem really imposing and intimidating.
Its not the fact it was CGI that was the problem, it was the excessive movement. CG is amazing when used properly, just like model work and a man in a rubber suit. But, improper use makes it look stupid,... just like the crab walk. You have to use the tools available to you properly and effectively. That includes deciding what NOT to show on camera.
So much of this movie's horror is derived from how the xenomorph often just appears in a scene. No abrupt jumpscare, no loud music stinger, just the thing existing and doing the only thing it knows to do. Sure, there is loud music, and there are jumpscares, but they're few and far between. Often the xenomorph just silently appears or blends into the background, like how it was hanging from the chains on the ceiling when it's first revealed.
Dallas' death has a loud scream and a jumpscare.
@@TheLambdaTeam For all the jumpscares in the film, the xenomorph is only involved in two of them. The one with it catching Dallas, and then on the shuttle as Ripley is getting ready to go into cryosleep for the journey home. Every other time the xenomorph was revealed it was done slowly and with none of its prey aware until it was too late.
Jonesy had more jumpscares than the xenomorph.
I find this one scene to be more genuinely terrifying than all of Prometheus.
*sip* yep, theys don't make them movies like what when
Spot on.
And Covenant. Together.
🤣😆😂
Prometheus was pure shit.
The part from 0:13 to0: 21 is really creepy, esp how its just sitting there almost drooling. Cut right after Lambert realizes what she is seeing and right before the xenomorph(excuse me sir, a what?) extends its tail.
LOL! It's a bug hunt.
I believe this whole footage is a combo of director-view and main cameras? The wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are additional ones for the director? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view and avoid creating a shadow when it wasn't the time yet? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". Think about it! I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.
Per the final edit, though visible in this one, I always thought the strange 'embracing' gesture he does in front of Lambert (2:39) was very odd and creepy. Almost like it has a sort of physical ritual before killing, as if it's taking its time to go through the performance 'steps' before attacking her -- unlike how it killed Parker quickly and brutally. Agreed: Lambert's broadcast screams of terror that are horrifically cut off remains terrifying to hear even after all these years. Such a great film. Still one of the best movie monsters ever created.
@Andrew Wolf it's even more disturbing as in the full screenplay it actually rapes her before killing her and although this scene was left out of the final cut it kinda indicates that's what it's gonna do!!
Alien: oh yeah babe! come here and give daddy some sugar!............THAT'S A PENIS!
@tomheaney2135 yup. It was said that the man who originally hosted the alien had a thing for Lambert and that's why the alien raped her because part of his DNA was in the alien.
"Killed Parker quickly" lol took him yonks Parker had about two minutes to fire it up and did nothing stupid film
@@chasam1234stupid.. film..?? Are you fucking kidding me?
the way parker charges the alien..... what a guy
Parker was right all along.
Parker was the most heroic character in the movie. Fighting the xeno hand to hand, balls of steel.
He seemed like a real piece of crap at first but when it came down to it he was by far the most heroic and sensible of the crew.
I mean he arguably could have ended it all right there. He just had to hold down a trigger. But his friend was in the line of fire and petrified so he literally charged a 7 foot tall perfect killing machine to try and buy her time.
Absolute f***ing beast of a man. He was a hero through and through.
@@TheFirstCurse1 If Alien: Isolation taught us anything, the flamethrower would've only either pissed off the Alien more or scare it off for a bit before it returned with a vengeance.
@@SoldierOfFate That's why I said "arguably". It's obvious that it's unkillable in Isolation for gameplay reasons as it's seen killing Xenomorphs in other media and games (specifically Aliens inspired ones).
One of the best musical scores ever! Even on these deleted scenes, it really creates an atmosphere.
The scream she makes at the end..... if that didn't terrify you.
The (classic) Xenomorph is literally one of the most terrifying creatures in horror history.
Rip Yaphet Koto. Legend
Rewatched this movie recently. Freakiest part of the whole thing for me (and in this clip) is when Ripley hears Lambert dying through the intercom. It sounds like it takes forever... what is the xenomorph doing to her...? [shudders]
Some things should be left unanswered.
Trying to hug it looks like.
We know her clothes had been torn off when she died...
According to the novelization it tries to carry both Lambert and Parker into the air shafts at the same time
@@Robert_Douglass looks like someone’s seen Galaxy of Terror too many times
Proof that what is heard can be more terrifying than what is seen. Incredible acting.
The screams over the radio is so freaking cinematic its like the perfect way to keep it ambiguous as to whats happening to lambert, the fast paced breathing, her moans, then turned to screams, it really makes the alien or at least the death it gave her , that much more terrifying and weird. We just dont know what happened to her.
"Death by blade, death by crushing, in the end you still die" -ainz ool goan
Yes we do
Some say she died of a heart attack - caused by fear...
The implication people got from this scene is the alien raped her
@@jamesconkey1480 no, we don´t know the actual modus operandi or the details of what happened to Lambert. All speculation.
1:23 - 1:29 should have made the final cut!
Also that one bit at 1:43
@@Alidonius6721 Yup, seeing the two mouths open, but not so close, up was fairly impressive.
Veronica Cartwright makes the scene. Her acting and that grimace of pure terror is what makes the scene completely believable even when the creature is barely shown.
She was amazing in this film - just so shockingly realistic in her unbridled terror - like a normal person in that situation.
I've only just realized that she was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
@@martinhsl68hwHer sister is Angela Cartwright, who played Penny Robinson on Lost in Space.
@@norikotakaya14292 Veronica was also Rod Taylor's little sister in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds".
Keep forgetting how scary and disturbing this movie is.Frickin Awesome.
I know a lot of this footage wouldn't have worked if it was used in final cut, but it's good to see Bolaji Badejo in the costume! One of the greatest villain performances ever!
This scene never did play out with the tension of Brett getting knocked off, which is one of the best scenes in cinema history. It did however show how physically superior the alien was and good editing. Unless you saw the film in its theatrical release in 79' you can never understand how unnerving it was.
My family and i went to the theater to see it in '79... Scared shitless.
You are so lucky.
Also the volume. This was the loudest movie I ever saw and it added immensely to the fear dynamic.
@@zariqueenMy mother took me and my brother to see this when we were kids. I think she regretted it to her grave, but I thought the original was great, the second even better
My brother and I went to see Alien at a local movie theater in 1979. I was 16 years old. Damn I'm old. I remember seeing the trailer on the tv for Alien and seeing the movie posters everywhere. "In space no one can hear you scream.” Just watching the trailer for the movie is horrifying. As for the uncut version, I always remembered that scene with Parker lasting longer. Good to know I'm not losing my mind.
They could’ve kept that whole Parker sequence. The Alien’s hand on Parker’s face showed its strength and was terrifying.
Love the little crab walk 😂 and how it took her ages to see the xeno
I said wtf at that point
I keep thinking to myself: How on Earth did it take her so long to see that massive, terrifying alien?
@@Chocobear555 Well, it was dark and the Alien was black so..
I believe this whole footage is a combo of director-view and main cameras? The wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are additional ones for the director? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view and avoid creating a shadow when it wasn't the time yet? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". Think about it! I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.
@@Chocobear555 I believe that wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are from a director-view camera? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.
1:55 “Sorry mate, I was out of order there...😔”
What makes this particularly scary is knowing that Parker himself is a huge guy (6ft 4", bulky and brawny) and even he was overpowered easily by the alien. If a guy like him was no match for the alien, what chance did Ripley have? That's when this movie truly became terrifying.
yes definitely agreed with you, but as much as this movie is gold, this scene kind of like the least logical for them to do..Both Parker and Ripley knew how strong the Alien was when it carried Brett upward to the airshafts, so separating with only 3 of you left, seem very unreasonable to me knowing how it simply overpowered the others..though yes, the creators need to find a way to kill Lambert and Parker, and maybe this is the best they can think of, given also the cinematic effect required.
@@angel91485 you know what would make an interesting fight? A fight between a Xenomorph and an Engineer. Creature against its own father.
Unfortunately, Parker isn't ruthless had all the time in the world to zap it and just gawped.
Parker has 6’3 height .
Definitely for the best that this was cut - although the scene right at the start where the xenomorph is perched watching Lambert is scary af and should’ve been used imo. The crab walk afterwards is just ridiculous though
Pero como ya se mostraba como humano, como encubo al cuerpo del que murió, igual la 3ra cuando se metió al perro tomo forma de este
Agreed, it just sitting there watching with an odd curiosity is creepy as hell. Like it WANTS to know she's seen it before it attacks so she dies frightened.
Agree 100%. They could have kept that scene where the Alien is first seen in shadow only, then the one where it is simply sitting there watching Lambert. And keep that scene when the Alien stands to it's full, menacing 2 meter height! The only part that should've been cut is that 'crab walk' scene.
Alien is the only film in the franchise where the Xenomorph takes it's time killing, not only takes it's times, but seems to ENJOY killing. It has a weird perverted fascination with it's victims, as though it wants to fuck them before it kills them. Unfortunately in films afterwards it's just a superficial monster. Alien covenant has ruined any mystic we once had about it's origins and the Xeno itself was badly delivered.
I agree, and i think that element of sexuality increases the overall mystery of this creature. Before they became hive minded bugs in ALIENS, they remained truly mysterious because nothing was really explained in terms of why the creature kills, how it exactly kills and whether it possessed real intelligence. I also think that it has a child like curiosity especially in the first movie, how it slowly walks towards Lambert and later how it watches Ripley in the shuttle at the end of the movie. I think at the end in ALIEN the creature is in the stage of dying and it just wants to be left alone after its rampage through the ship, but is awakened by Ripley. And Covenant....dear god, i can't believe how this awful movie is even made by the same director who gave us this masterpiece.....
In my mind the two prequels aren't canon and doesn't ruin my enjoyment or facination of the mysterious horrors of their origin. For me, if something isn't by the original creator or was never planned that time, it's all retcon.
The sexual element is in line with Giger's original drawings.
I hate to admit it but the story is so unclear and screwed up I thought we were going to get an explanation of how they were created but it turns out an Android with an attitude created them fs again hate to admit it but AVP has a better reason for the Xenomorphs creation
fanboys always come up with the dumbest shit.
I'm so glad the glorification of rape was removed from the symbolism of alien.
it's a biological weapon. not a mystic being.
I honestly think they could've left some of this in with quick edits. Not the crab walk...but maybe a few more of those medium and close-up shots. It would've been nice to see more of the big chap in this scene than what's in the theatrical release.
Definitely that shot of ithe alien standing as the music intensifies. It's looked cool and creepy in equal measure.
1:45 Holy crap this shot is brilliant. I wish this close up was kept in the film.
Apart from the crab walk I think this scene is bad ass.
100% with you
RIP Lambert we hardly knew ye
As much as I'd like to say she wasn't, we knew her well enough, she was a fraidy cat. She wanted to stay away from the derelict, and she was all in favour of abandoning the Nostromo; in her mind, nothing could be gained by confronting the creature head-on, and they had already lost three people to it, so the only sensible option was to run, and to trust to hope that the creature wouldn't find its way onto the shuttle before they did.
That's kind of the point.
The movie gives you next to no details about these people or the world they live in.
The company has no name in this film. It's just called "the company."
The characters are only given one name, and then it's only their last names. You never learn what the first names of these characters are, because they never refer to each other by their first names, almost as if none of them know each other well enough to be on a first name basis.
And we're not given much, if any, backstory for them. We know they're essentially tow truck drivers, that they're towing a mine/ore refinery, and that's pretty much it.
We're thrown into the middle of their lives and their universe with no context, and all we really learn about them over the course of the movie is how they deal with having this alien onboard.
That's part of the beauty of the film. It's simple and clean, stripped of all but the important details. As Ash might say, you can admire its purity.
Ridley Scott said that the reason he disliked horror films was "because in the end it’s always been a man in a rubber suit" and that his solution was to show only enough to drive the imagination. This extended scene does the opposite of that: it shows the man in the rubber suit.
When Ripley finds them dead Parker is sitting on the floor head busted open and lamberts foot is hanging at the left of screen did she get so scared her boots came off? please explain since the cocoon scene was cut from the theater version and wasn’t shown until the special edition way after Cameron made the sequel did he get to see the footage and still went ahead with his version of the queen or he never saw the cut footage and still did his own version
1:30-1:33 should have made the final cut. That is terrifying!
The most disturbing death scene in the entire franchise.
This haunts my mother when we saw this in theaters when I was young. 8 years old. Poor Lambert😢
Alien is the greatest horror film ever made and one of the things that made it so great is the "less is more" concept Ridley Scott employed in the final editing for the theatrical release. Not seeing much of the alien made it seem more like a stealthy predator which you don't detect until it is too late. And Lambert's unseen death transmitted over the intercom is the stuff of nightmares.
A lot of this is pretty wonderful but the way Badejo moves from 0:46-0:59 is just *way* too controlled and it just feels like a stuntman in a rubber suit. The short sequence from 1:24-1:29 looks incredible, I don't remember that being in the theatrical cut.
Lol you can see the wire that pulled him back around his waist.
It wasn't in the original cut. It made the sexual imagery too overt and was wisely cut. That and the movements were kind of off, like you said.
He was no stuntman...he had the right build but they would have needed someone more athletic to move properply. Just thinking about how inhuman they managed to get Samara from the Ring by clever jerky movements and editing.
+RazzleDazzle I thought the same thing about 1:24 to 1:29! I think it would've almost been an acceptable substitute shot for the over-Lambert's-shoulder-alien-menacingly-standing-up-shot that they ended up using in the theatrical cut.
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The crab walk is weird, but isn't that the whole point, it's an alien, it's supposed to be weird and do things we can't predict. I think it's actually creepy how it just sits there without her noticing it, then crab walks up to her, as if its playing a game, before smiling at her.
And the tail pointing upwards at her surely represents an erection, the alien is horny that it gets to terrify and kill her
With the final edit you don't even understand what happens, other than that they die a gruesome death. The alien itself never had enough screen time
It's also an intelligent race, being weird for the sake of being weird feels forced.
Like as if it was a child always thought it had dark sense of humor when Ripley was in the closet putting on the suit it opened it's mouth slowly then bites down the air like showing Ripley " this what's going to happen, I'm gonna get you"
The suspense of it was not seeing the whole thing
yea i remember how h.r. giger always portray the xenomorph as some sort of a horny creature on his paintings
I believe this whole footage is a combo of director-view and main cameras? The wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are additional ones for the director? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view and avoid creating a shadow when it wasn't the time yet? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". Think about it! I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.
Its funny but throughout the film Parker was an jerk but he went up against that thing to defend another person. No promise of glory, no chance of survival and Dubious odds of success.
Its quite an interesting moment since it shows while he's hot blooded and obnoxious he's a fundemently decent person and very very brave.
Thank God this was out of the theatrical film...It's bad. Ver very bad...The alien looked like a man in an outfit. You can also see the wire attached to Parker's waist when the alien pushes him to the wall...
Ridley Scott had Terry Rawlings meticulously edit the film to prevent the alien from looking like an actor in a rubber suit to the audience. The original theatrical version was excellent but releasing extra bits of footage is nice for the fans.
Sorry man but it's not just the suit...It's the moves to...It moves like a human and it's obvious..
It may have been during production. Didn't have time to edit out the wires yet.
I don't think they would have even bothered to put most of this into editing knowing that it needed to be cut from the film, the full uncut version really detracts from the scene.
1:24 to 1:29 is good, they shouldn’t have cut that out.
In all the Alien movies I don't think I've seen it look more menacing than it did starting at 1:23. I've seen maybe all of the special features and deleted scenes before but I'm really curious where you got that footage from?
I think the editing should've been halfway between this and the theatrical version. The original has always been too jumpy in this scene and it feels rushed, just like Brett's kill scene. The frontal shots of the alien once it crawls over are good, and that teeth-baring sneer at 1:00 with the sound effects and music were very eery. The back shots are what look like a man in a suit.
Almost unbelievable, how fortunate Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) has been in her acting career! Honing her craft alongside Tippi Hedren, under the watchful eye of Alfred Hitchcock in the early 1960's (The Birds)
So that's why Parker was all bloodied before the alien killed him, there was a deleted shot of it crushing his head against the wall before.
I've always wondered that my self over the last 40 years!
Parker being knocked against the wall by the alien's tail is in the final cut and easily explains it.
What are you watching?! The Alien kills Parker by slamming its second mouth right into his brains. Was always like this..
The Alien was slowly crushing him with its arm right before it decided to headbite him.
Now I'm reading that this was what freaked out the audiences, not the chestburster scene
I always love how u hear the alien “roar” right before lambert screams.
It’s a brilliant film, but not an easy watch. Ridley Scott brilliantly increases the claustrophobic tension with each scene. I’m always amazed how quickly the chest burster grows though! When it burst out of Kane it was tiny, by the end of the film, about 8 feet tall.
It is rather fascinating and also depressing seeing this superb special effects surpassing by far those of the latest film (Covenant)
I mean, come on, xenomorphs must be brought to life only by practical effects.
A clunky ,obvious as Hell costume is not good sorry not sorry. I could never fear the Xeno in the original since it was so obviously a costume, it was laughably bad
I find this even more terrifying, the way it moved in the seated position. Creepy.
1:24 This moment right here is as if the xenomorph is displaying some sort of arrogance combined with dominance. This shot should have been put in the film.
I believe this whole footage is a combo of director-view and main cameras? The wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are additional ones for the director? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view and avoid creating a shadow when it wasn't the time yet? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". Think about it! I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.
The Alien enjoyed killing, and killed them slowly
Everybody talks about how movies aren’t scary. However, you have to remember, if you were in the situation is what makes it really scary. Sitting on a couch with a drink and nervously eating candy you’re gonna be judgmental about “the guy in the suit” the “stupid crab walk” etc.
The term In film school is “suspending your disbelief”. Meaning stop thinking about the stunt actors and bad wigs and poor acting. You have to immerse yourself in a film in order to get the full experience. Drop the know it all gig and just enjoy it for what it’s meant to be. Not because you know all the ins and outs of EVERYTHING.
Exactly. People have to analyze literally everything these days. Quit thinking about it and experience it.
Man I am glad they cut that shit out for the final movie!
southlondon86 , yeah, that thing is uuuugly!!
This creature was NEVER called a XENOMORPH until the sequel. Before, it was just called an ALIEN.
Perhaps not, but that is what this particular movie monster has come to be named, and there is nothing you can do about it. So shut up and deal.
@Георгий Коновченко wrong. It is the specific name weyland-yutani gave to the species
@@jameszack7158 only in part 2. The term was only in existence after the sequel.
@@ronniemarion8456 excuse me? In first Alien film we only watch Nostromo's crew, they never knew that alien existed, so how do you expect them to call it an "xenomorph"? It is natural that they call it an alien.
@@jameszack7158 I don't think you intended that message to be aimed at me. I'm in agreement with you.
I'm glad they edited out a lot of that scene. For one the alien moved too much like a human. Reminded me of sitting on the floor watching tv as a kid too lazy to stand up and just scurrying to the tv!
0:39 - this Alien originally spawned from someone who was a Breakdancer, it's now about to "bust a move".
Love the shot of Parker flying across the room, but other than that, the final edit is superior.
The wire pulling him spoiled the shot; hence the cut.😊
They should make a live action of "Alien Isolation"
I'd love that.
Yeah it’s called Alien
1:23 - This should of been in the movie original.
I kind of like the concept. It's easy to forget because of how overexposed the xenomorph's iconic design has become since all the spinoffs and sequels, but in the original movie it's never even clear whether the alien has legs until you see it sucked into space. And it was Aliens that established that the thing even moves with its head in front and tail in back like a regular-ass animal (though to its credit, it did still manage to make that look weird). This early in the game, no one knew anything.
This would've been the third scene in a pattern. First, with Brett, you see its size and its weird mouth. Then with Dallas, you see its head and pipe-y, bony body. And finally, here, you'd see that even the way it stands still is fuckin weird, all folded up with the head just throbbingly erect like that. It moves like it lives in bursts, like a camouflaged insect, spending most of its time inert in a way that mammals like us always find really unrelatable.
Still, the crabwalk doesn't look that good. I'm guessing that what they wanted was for a really smooth, lightweight sliding motion, but the suit's weight made it impossible to do without doddering back and forth. Still, it's a shame, because that tail thing at the beginning is just sublimely awful, like a flasher or something.
That insect aspect would be a really cool creepy behaviour indeed. There are some scenes in other movies and comics where the Xenos are just standing there but they never really take advantage of how disturbing that behaviour is.
I think you're right that the tail unfold was awesome & creepy. If they'd just reshot the crab walk as a head first crawl the whole thing might have worked.
The original 4:3 ratio format is the best, you don't see any part of its body other than its face and the tail stinger until the very end scene, it has folk thinking Jeeso!!! So that's what it looks like!!!
Think you see its hands in the scene it ambushes Dallas, but you see only fleet glances of its body, it is assumed that it looks lik a grown up version of the chest burster, limbless like a snake, only in the very end when it gets sucked out the airlock is it finally revealed what it actually looks like
The part wheres hes sitting there, head down so that the dome-like shape kind of points up and his legs, and the bit with the tail extending was pretty cool. But the guy when he starts to walk on his pegs and feet, in some kind of weird african tribal-dance way of something, just didnt suit. But i do appreciate this was early, and Ridley is experimenting with this totally original, out of this world creature he has.
Props to Yaphet and Cartwright though, absolute sheer terror in their faces, when Parkers trying to yell at Lambert to get the fuck out of there, when you see a guy like Yaphet in trouble like that, you fuckin believe it. Funny enough Ridley re-used that shot, with the creature crunched up, then getting up, rising and its really tall. He tried that same effect with Fifield's entrance when he returned after being exposed and transformed by the black goo.
Truly terrifying movie the original Alien.In it's own way still like nothing I ever seen before.Saw it at movies at age ten in 1979.
Same here Ben. I saw it when I was 9 in 1979 and my 8 year old brother and I kept running out of the theatre! It's in my all time top 5 films for sure.
Same here! And it was loud! That added a lot to the fear dynamic.
Ridley Scott did it best. Showing less is more terrifying
Well I would've rather this been part of original film as it answers questions I had for 40 years!
Also as far as crab moves, and it acting harmless at first towards Lambert, Brilliant!
Yeah this is yet another deleted scene I'm glad didn't make the cut haha. I love alien, but this didn't add anything at all. In fact the scene just makes the whole alien look stupid.
THAT is how the Alien is supposed to sound, NOT the pig noises they had in Alien Isolation
In the begin, Mr Scott think for the score in isao tomita, but the 20th century fox want a sinphonyc score, ... Mr Jerry goldsmith made magnificent job, one of the best scores in history
Best horror film ever made! Cancel culture LOSERS will hate! Losers love CGI!
When alien sit on floor and look to Lambert is best scary scene for me
Admittedly, this is the classic Lambert/Parker death scene spliced in with a heavy dose of the original Lambert ending that was scrapped. Sneaky, dishonest (a tad) but I like it. Late 70's creature horror liked to incorporate a kill scene with a dose of absolutely mind bending frustration into the death toll and Parker's death ranks right up there with the captain's death in the original jaws. He's the only character in the whole movie who had a clear shot at the xeno, yet Parker can't take that shot. Somehow Lambert is "in the way". As usual in horror flicks of the period, this happens to characters who've scored enough audience sympathy that we want them to survive. This well made re-edit lessens the frustration by making it shorter, but I kind of wonder if that was the editor's intent?
i still want to know how it got there with neither one seeing it, there doesn't appear to be any vents and the way it is just motionless is even more creepy
You can see the shadow on the wall of it walking into the room, probably from where Brett and lambert came in.