*SCI-FI HORROR PERFECTION* Alien Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING
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I was about 5 years old when my dad took me to see this in the theaters. Being so young, I don't have very clear memories except that I was bored at first and didn't know what was going on and then the scary scenes started and I covered my eyes for the rest of the movie, peaking between my fingers. It was SO scary. I had a great time. My dad said he didn't know it was going to be THAT scary and said not to tell mom he took me to see it haha.
You’re Dad sounds awesome haha I love this anecdote
That is a very cool dad you had there. I had to go to a friend's house I the early 80s and watch it on his VCR.
how did any of u get in the movie theater at them ages?
Great reactions. The Swiss artist who designed the Xenomorph and the look of the ship and such was called H.R. Giger. He essentially created the "biomechanical" style of art. One of Ridley Scott's best. The film is pure art. Please watch Aliens!
Dang, that guy deserves so much credit, a true artist! And yeah, my Aliens reaction will be out next week, followed by Predator
There is actually a real living creature the xenomorph was somewhat based on. It’s called Phronima and it’s terrifying for an amphipod! Check it out 👍
Dan O'Bannon is the real genius behind Alien (as well as HR Giger).
@@nickreacts6394 I saw Star Wars in the theater when I was 5. But my parents didn't take a 7 year old to see Alien unfortunately.
Amazing designs from Geiger... he is the epitome of genius bordering on madness! Loved his cover work for the 1981 Blondie LP Koo Koo
When this was released, my father and brother (15), I was 9 so didn't go, went to see it. All they knew was the poster with the egg shown, nothing else had been revealed. The scene with the chest burster, a lady sitting behind them screamed so loud the hair stood up on my father's neck and he then looked at my brother, who had turned grey with shock, looked back and my brother said "This is great!". Still remembers it today.
The scene of the crew eating dinner(?) when the chestburster erupts from Kane's body, was planned out to not have most of the actors aware of what was going to come out of Kane's "body", so when the alien baby breaks out on the table, the reactions of the rest of the crew actors were literally genuine LOL! Veronica Cartwright who played Lambert, was reportedly pretty upset for a while after this because it was so unexpected :P.
That's honestly an awesome way to capture genuine shock and horror... and while I can understand an actor being irritated, I'd imagine Veronica Cartwright let that go when she saw how great the end result turned out. I've heard a few similar stories about ways directors will use surprises to help bring out a strong emotional response (a scene from the great HBO show Succession comes to mind), and I think it's often a highly effective technique
@@nickreacts6394 It really is! Fun stuff lol.
Hmmmm ... skirting VERY close there to my most hated "Alien" untruth - kinda spurious in that what actually bursts out of Kane's "body" is not the fully articulated puppet we see in the closeup a second later but rather just a ramrod hard "dummy" that was punched up and through. See my comment above as to the OFT REPEATED fallacy about the crew having "no idea what would happen" - which yes, I KNOW is not what you said.
@@tulinfirenze1990 I'm not aware of the minute details of it all, It was just something I read about before (that likely wasn't very detailed either). Either way the idea was to get them to react to something coming out of the table for the emotional effect, and that was the main point really (that I know of). I just find it fascinating. I'm not really sure why you decided to bring htis up if I only "skirted very close" to it, but thank you for expanding on the details a bit. Not trying to be rude, just being honest.
We were standing in line outside waiting to go in the cinema and people that were coming out were saying "yeah it's an OK film" the liars, so I went into it knowing nothing about the movie, totally unprepared and it scared the daylight out of me and I don't scare easy. We were taking care of my mother-in-law's poodle that night and it touched me with his nose during the night and I jumped out of bed screaming my head off and couldn't go back to sleep.
Omg! Same here except it was my cat! She used to sleep on my chest, woke up flailing my arms around. She didn't come near me for like a week after and never slept on my chest again lol
One of my favourite films and definitely one of Ridley Scott’s best. It’s horror in sci-fi clothing, and bringing in H.R. Giger’s designs was such a stroke of genius that adds to one of the biggest thematic aspects of the story - the biomechanical design of the xenomorph is made all the more unsettling by the psychosexual elements in the design as well as the script.
Also, fun fact about the script; it actually states that any of the characters can be male or female - it’s basically a gender-neutral script save for ONE character, which is Dallas (the dude who gets the face-hugger) due to the fact it’s all a bit metaphor for R/SA. Ridley Scott said that women had suffered that fate enough in sci-fi and it was time to “scare the men” for a change by making them feel that same kind of fear and vulnerability 😂
Horror in sci-fi clothing is such a perfect description, and that's interesting decision to only distinguish Dallas' gender... I think that was a good/ innovative choice by Ridley Scott, but I'm even more relieved that Ripley ended up being played by Sigourney Weaver, cause I have a hard time picturing any other actor doing nearly as well in that role
You are the only reactor who put together that the alien was in the shuttle when Ripley was heading for it and that’s why she goes back. I’m impressed.
"At least they don't spread up individually!" - "Go and get the cat!" :)
I love this movie with my whole heart - there's actually a deleted scene to this movie (or a director's cut in general) that shows a bit more, and gives a completely different spin to the xenomorph as a creature itself :D
Oh no way, I wonder why they left it out? I'll look it up
Sci fi perfection 👑
Absolutely!
I saw this in the cinema and absolutely loved it. I remember that just about everyone jumped out of their seats at certain parts.
Sir Ian Holm is the actor you think looks familiar. Ash the android is played by the elderly bilbo baggins from lord of the rings. Also a major character in the fifth element.
Of course! Bilbo! I should have recognized him honestly, his performance in this film was top-tier
'It was all right there?': yes, the Alien has indeed adapted to camouflage itself on a spaceship... it's also slowed down steadily since it went after Brett.
It's like a Mayfly: lives only a short time, makes a couple of eggs, kills to defend the nest, then lays down and dies.
I was in high school, Star Wars had come out two years before, and I was ready to see anything with space and FX. I sat down, popcorn ready, and the documentary style realism in the acting and shooting sets up almost non-stop tension. So, creepy, creepy, skeleton…, creepy, creepy face hugger with testicles and fingers… acid blood, creepy…
Well, THEN the creature bursts from John Hurt’s chest, with more blood spraying than anyone had ever seen in a film. I gripped the chair and never let go, ‘cause suddenly I was the victim of some mad European filmmaker, who didn’t follow rules of basic decency and wanted to scar me for life.
In a subtextual way, it worked as an anti-movie. We didn’t know Sigourney Weaver from a can of spray paint, and Yaphet Kotto was possibly the biggest name, from being a James Bond villain. Not to be indelicate, but… this was 1979, with a cast of seven, and all the white male actors were dead first. So, every movie trope and expectation was subverted, and that sense of “It’s only a movie” didn’t work, cause you had to stay alert. Also, up to that point we hadn’t had horror films with double and triple endings, where the monster pops back up. It was a real endurance test, but it was and still is GREAT!!
Do yourself a favor right now; find the original TV teaser and trailer for Alien. It would air at night and scare us to death.
oh man, your face when the alien burst out of the man’s stomach… 😳😆 just like mine back in the day!
"I walk out into the sun,I try to find a new day,but the whole world just shines in my eyes."
Yeah, my amazing dad took me to see this film when I was 9 years old (in early 1980)... still blows me away 40 years later! 🤗😁😘
I saw "Alien" in 1979 during its initial theatrical run--great memories! But I would say that if you've seen "Alien" and "Aliens," you've seen the two worthwhile films in the franchise and can safely pass over the rest. Time to move on.
That's what I decided, at least for now. I have Predator coming out after Aliens instead...
@@nickreacts6394 Excelent!
Yeah.
Alien & Aliens are utterly brilliant.
But I've actually grown to appreciate A3 a little bit over the years. And I have always been in a very small minority by genuinely liking 4 (Ressurection).
The rest are total garbage.
Ridley Scott attended art college in my home town, ( Hartlepool ) and has said that he drew inspiration for some of the scenes in Alien and Bladerunner from the local steelworks and shipyards. The huge, hanging chains in the Nostromo, and the steelworks chimneys venting, gas/flames in Bladerunner. It still looks like that...something to see at night.
To make the outside elevator on the Nostromo look big, I believe they made small space suites for child actors making the outside look about 1 1/2 times bigger.
That's some creative filmmaking right there, it worked really well!
@@nickreacts6394 In fact two of them were Ridley Scott's son. They did the same ting in the engine room of the Enterprise in the first couple of STAR TREK movies. Children in engineering suits were placed further down passages to make them look much longer.
Holy crap Thor, how have you not seen Alien?! I’m very happy that you missed it though, since now we get to watch it with you! Thank you for the wholesome treat!
I love both Alien and Aliens - they were two of my favourite movies growing up - and I love how they are both excellent but quite different films. Of course Ripley’s complete badassery is a theme running though both! I love how smart, resourceful and brave she is!
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
It made $200 million dollars at the box office against a $11 million dollar budget.
It put Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver on the map.
It has 3 Sequels, 2 spinoff films, and 2 crossover films with the PREDATOR franchise.
It's considered to be the scariest motion pictures ever made.
"Friendly Neighborhood God of lucious, flowing locks." 💇⚡🔨
Horror movie tropes: Alien is famously based upon / inspired by two films.
- a black and white film called 'It! the Terror From Beyond Space!' from the late 1950s, and 'The Planet of the Vampires', an Italian SF / Horror film from the early 1970s.
Both are worth seeing, to see other takes on this story.
One memory from seeing this for the first time. As Ripley is in the shuttle, someone quietly said, 'It's in the cat!" You could hear the entire theater groan...
Nice job, but you already knew quite a bit about this one. Shame that you saw the sequel first, some of the surprises were lost.
Yeah, unfortunately I didn't get to go into this one completely blind, but I am really glad I finally got around to watching it, Ridley Scott did not disappoint!
My mom took me to see this with a double feature of Jaws when I was 8. Scared the crap out of me.
Now those are two MEMORABLE theater experiences… I’d probably be pretty terrified at that age too tho haha
My all-time favorite movie. I saw it in 1979 and it blew my Lovecraft obsessed mind. I believe you mentioned already seeing 'Aliens" and in the beginning of that film, Ripley freaks out when she finds out Bishop is a robot. That's a direct result of her experiences with Ash. As this movie goes on, Ian Holm becomes more and more detached from the rest of the crew.
I was never bothered by horror movies as a kid. I got to see this in the theatre when I was 6. All I wanted for Christmas that year was an alien figurine. I was so mad when I didn’t get one.
This movie had absolutely no previews, no scenes, no pictures. Just that egg with the light coming out of the crack. "In space, no one can hear you scream." We all went in cold. We actually went to see it on a Friday night. The theater was full of teenagers, probably half were girls. Every time anything happened, they all screamed. Sometimes I jumped because they screamed before I even saw what they were screaming about. Great fun.
9:45 I think it is him braking the mist and the heat coming off his suit.
10:45 The late H.R. Giger (an artist from Switzerland) designed the alien and the alien ship. He also designed Sil (an alien-human hybrid) for the 1995 film Species.
10:56 You can't. You either remove the chest-berster later or threw Kane out of the ship.
14:25 If you kill it, it will bleed a hole in the ship and suck all the air out.
20:05 Alien is 3 years older then The Thing.
This came out right just 2 years after Star Wars. I was about 13 and somehow my best friend and I got in to see the movie, even though it was R rated. We knew it was darker than Star Wars, the ad campaign was just the movie title fading in like in the film, but over a glowing green egg, that's it. Creepy, mysterious, and ominous. But we still didn't know quite what we were getting into. It was an unbelievably intense and terrifyingly delicious experience. Only to be matched when we were 20. That's when Aliens came out, and my best friend and I stumbled out of that theatre totally numb and completely exhausted, with Ripley's place as the greatest, most badass action hero of all time firmly established in our minds, never to be dislodged even all these years later. At 55 we still go watch movies together, and still act like a couple of stoned teenagers. As an aside, one of the coolest things I've had the privilege of seeing was a staging of King Lear at the National Theatre in London, that featured Ian Holm, who played Ash in Alien, as the titular main character. Love your reaction and analysis. You definitely were totally clued into all the things going on in the film, with the characters, how it was filmed to various purposes, using ambient sounds to create atmosphere instead of music, the realism of the models, etc. Looking forward to seeing more of your reactions!
16:30 Jonsey "better you than me"
Haha cats are only a snack...
I saw this 2nd day out at the theater as a kid with a friend and his step dad. It was a hot day and line went around the building. Everyone had no idea what to expect including my friend's step dad who waited for my friend and I after the chest burst scene. There were quit a few people who left after that scene. I saw Exorcist at 8 and Texas Chainsaw Massacre at 9 so I was cool with it. I thought the Alien was one of the freakiest and incredible monsters ever...still do.
It's been so long since this came out I can't say for sure what it was like as a first time viewer (I was 8) but I think for a large part of the movie it's not even clear that Ripley is the protagonist, so nobody feels like the safe lead that should survive.
I agree, Ripley, while possibly the most likeable character (at least for me) didn't obviously seem like the "protagonist" per se, which helped strengthen the notion that no one was safe
Enjoyed the reaction 🌈🔥
Thank you! Glad you liked it! :)
Nice reaction. New to the channel. I saw this on HBO in 1980 and it scared me pretty good. The 70's was such a great decade for groundbreaking and landmark sci-fi and horror movies. The Exorcist, The Omen, Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Phantasm and more. This movie was the birth of the modern female badass.
saw this the first year. many subsonics in the sound system to heighten the tension
Ian Holm who played Ash, was Bilbo Baggins in LOTR.
He’s just awesome, I’m surprised I didn’t realize
Great reaction again‼️ Loving your vibe. ❤️fromOregon🇺🇸
I saw it very early on, and one has to remember that Sigourney Weaver was an unknown actress as the time. Going into this, she was just one more crew member. No one knew how it ended. There were no sequels yet to clue one in that anyone, or anything, survived this encounter. For that reason the suspense factor exceeded the horror. The intensity level of Alien was a first of its kind. The utilitarian Nostromo was wholly believable as a working ship, as were the crew. Direction and pacing were perfect and Giger’s xenomorph creatures and set designs were genius.
Carlo Rambaldi (E.T. etc.) is the guy who designed the practical effects of the alien
I saw this when it first came out (I was 22). The trailer played on TV and of course I had to see it. You can find the original trailer on RUclips. Even the trailer is excellent. I was scared before the movie even started. There was some screaming going on in that theater! The tension when Ripley was trying to escape to the shuttle was so bad that I felt like I had been run over by a truck. If you can ever see it on the big screen it is amazing. Loved your review!
Gah this is a good looking dude😍
Thx for reacting btw lol
If you decide to watch Alien 3, be sure it's the longer version (called either the Assembly Cut or the Special Edition). It adds about half an hour that the studio insisted on cutting out, and is more in line with what David Fincher was going for.
Years of cryosleep bad dreams: let's have a film of Philip K Dick's story 'I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon'.
3:26 "you're just trying to lure me into a false sense of security!" Inuyasha to Kagome. I tried to find the clip on RUclips but mostly just found giant compilations of sit boy anyway that's what this reminded me of
I saw Alien for the first time in the theater! When it first came out! I love space movies! Not as much horror, but this is the exception! Amazing on the big screen. My best friend had seen it several times before and she talked me into seeing it. She scared me to death when she screamed out "Dallas" in the theater! Check out Top Gun! Pretty in Pink! The Shining! Holes! To see more great performances by some of these Actors/Actresses! Just ages off the top of my head.
Fun fact: They actually using real blood squirting into the actors and actresses face as in cow's blood. Also they were never been told about an alien will burst out from Kane's chest thus making their scared reaction looks real. Lambert's actress got so scared in that scene because she too was not aware what is happening.
Blade Runner, Outland and Alien share the same universe. When you watch those movies, they use some of the same art , and sayings like, The Company. The Captain was a former employee of the Tyrell Corporation, which is found in Blade Runner.
3 sci-fi horror movies that are a must to see. The Thing, Alien, and Saturn 3.
Yup….the ship at the beginning is the ship in Prometheus 👽👽👽👽👽👽
Heck, I'm very curious to see what they explain about how it got there
@@nickreacts6394 you gotta react to Prometheus amigo. It’s there for a heroic reason: put it that way. 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽
@Thor Reacts Since you were wondering, the top speed of the Nostromo with its cargo is 0.12 light years per day, or about 78 times the speed of light. In other words, to get from Zeta Reticuli (where the movie says LV-426 is) to Earth would've taken slightly less than 6 months. But keep in mind that's how long it would take in 'real time'; due to hyperspace physics, the faster you go, the slower time goes for people on the ship. So to someone watching from Earth, the trip from LV-426 to Earth would've taken 6 months; to the crew, it would take 30 _years._ Without cryosleep, the crew would be senior citizens by the time they made it home!
That's also why it became standard procedure (between Alien and Aliens) for an android to be aboard ship. They don't age like humans do. Ships also got faster between Alien and Aliens; the _Sulaco_ in Aliens was able to travel about 0.96 light years per day, so it could make the same trip (Earth to LV-426) in just 3 weeks of real time.
That's the major distinction between "Alien" and "Aliens." The first is a straight up horror film. The sequel is an action/War film, with horror elements.
Trust me, you know ALL these actors from something. And this movie came out 3 years before "The Thing." If you recognize a lot of horror tropes in this film, it's because it invented several of them.
Yeah, I do think that Cameron continues with a lot of horror visuals in the sequel (which was awesome), but it's definitely more an action film. And heck, I wouldn't be surprised if John Carpenter was inspired by this movie
The impact when it first came out was huge. Imagine this: 20th Century Fox was able to maintain absolute secrecy about this movie right up until the release. Nobody knew anything about the plot, nobody knew who Sigourney Weaver was (This was her very first film) and nobody had any idea what the creature looked like. They were able to keep pictures of it out of the press for months after the release. At the time, people were calling it the scariest movie ever made, and there was a famous story about one of the ushers fainting at the premiere at the moment where parker knocks Ash's head off.
When Alien came out I was only 8 years old so there wasn't a chance anyone would be taking me to the theater to see it! And none of the commercials on TV showed the alien. There was just running and screaming and more running and screaming and the tagline: "In space, no one can hear you scream." Fortunately, I at least got ahold of the book novelization when I was 11. I went into it knowing absolutely nothing about the story and I only had my imagination with the book's description to tell me what the alien looked like! I think experiencing it that way was probably scarier than watching the actual movie! ESPECIALLY for an 11 year old! When the baby busted out of Kane's chest the book said it was "trailing bits of Kane." Trailing BITS! I remember being so scared while reading that book I was having trouble breathing! Especially later when they were finally fully aware of what they were up against and they were trying to figure out what to do. Talk about a scary experience! I don't even remember how old I was when I finally saw the actual movie. I honestly don't remember seeing it until I was in my 20s, although I saw Aliens at 14. Altogether, Alien is a masterpiece and the whole Alien franchise is one of the best movie franchises ever made!
Fun fact! The only actor that knew about the table scene!? Was the one that had the alien burst out of his chest. The rest, literally, thought he was having a seizure on set. It wasn't acting, it was genuine.
I'm so excited to see you react to one of the best movies ever made!! I'm a huge alien fan and collector and I honestly hope you love the film!
I was with a group of friends in college back when you could rent the VHS machine along with the cassette. I had stayed away from anything scary since being thoroughly traumatized by watching Halloween in the theater my freshman year. I wasn’t prepared for the dinner scene or the android reveal. I was way too tender back then.
Geiger(forgive spelling): “here is my latest work, it has 12 million penie in it…”
Scott: “can you make it darker?”
It was filmed in London over 14 weeks in 1978.
So..... since it hasn't been said.
There's a game called Alien: Isolation, which revolves around Ripley's daughter. It's essentially putting you in this position on board a space station as WY got wind of someone finding information on the Nostromo.
It's essentially one of the scariest games that exists and is still relatively polished despite being 8 years old. It thrives on forcing you into stressful decision making on the fly. It really shuts down the 'run and gun' kind of survival horror; that literally will get you killed FASTER.
It's not for everyone though. Really good game but can be overwhelming
Fun fact. At the time, Sigourney Weaver was a complete unknown compared to the other cast members. So there was no reason to think that she would survive.
The actor (Ash) that you think you know was Bilbo in Lord of the Rings.
Yes, it’s an alien craft, and it’s the same one in Prometheus.
This film was definitely one of the main originators of 'the final girl' trope, along with Halloween. It would have been a real twist then to have Ripley be the one who survived. Now you can pick out the final girl before the title card! Earlier versions of the script had Dallas be the survivor, fortunately they didnt go with that.
Everyone involved with the film had to sign confidential forms so that nothing was leaked before the release of the film. None of the publicity showed anything after they found the space alien in the chair. My friends and I took the day off from work so that we could go to the first matinee showing. When we were leaving my friend said he wanted to stop by the managers office to tell them that they needed to install seat belts. By time we got home there was an almost full-page photo of the alien. I'm glad I hadn't seen it before seeing the film.
The shipwreck in this film is not the same one from Prometheus. Also, rest in peace, John Hurt.
You've seen the Ash actor before: Ian Holm. He played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I would say Dallas is a fine managerial captain. Meaning...your day-to-day stuff of running a local mining company. Lot's of hands-on experience, many years of it. When you mean "leader", let's try to remember he is as freaked out as all the others, but he just wants to get back home. Keep it all working & operational, until they get there. Now...if you think about it closely...the reason they didn't die on the planet (possibly) was because Dallas said to ignore extraneous repairs, they need to leave, now. Had he took Ripley's advice initially (Parker does the long-quote of 25 hours), it is possible the alien would have hatched, then hid somewhere on the landing ship until it got big. Ripley mentions in the second one, it took less than 24 hours to lose her whole crew. Then the movie would be...what...30 minutes?
Secondarily, it's not like anyone was trained to do hand-to-hand combat with a 7' tall alien with two mouths, a tail & acid-blood. Not a lot of Captains are. Just saying. It's in the vents that he finally realizes he is way over his head, it's not just a job to clean the alien out of there. He just went right in like a trooper not considering the plan better. I would have thought they would have flushed it off the Nostromo (the tug lander), which contained the hypersleep pods, and ditched the rest of the ship. Serious pressure begets weird results.
I was never sure, but I always wondered if Dallas had some idea that Ash was wonky and something was wrong with the whole thing. It never shows us exactly what Mother showed him at the beginning of the movie. Yet when Ripley becomes captain, she is able to read Ash's orders. Remember, Dallas is the captain of a crew of 8, if you count the cat...so he's not going to wander around telling anyone what the company told him under penalty of prison, etc. He had to have had an idea when Ash let them in from the airlock.
I chocked it mostly up, to how they react and plan, as not knowing each other very well at all as a crew. He mentions to her that Ash replaced the old science officer 2 days before they left. If she (Ripley), was a long-standing part of the crew...she would already know that. It appears Lambert & Kane knew each other somewhat, but Dallas doesn't really interact with them like he knows them well either. Brett & Parker know each other obviously pretty well, but don't seem to know Ripley or Ash, or even Dallas that great. The movie is fairly vague enough that you get a sense nobody really knows anyone else that well, outside of this one single mission, this one time. I figured it was intention on the company's part. I don't know on the other sources that build backstories way after the fact of the movie, however. I don't count them as applying to the movie itself.
The smart move on this, and Alien 2, is that they leave large chunks unexplained.
You never quite know what is going on. Paranoia 101.
Don't touch It... Why don't touch It?
They are in Space and this little New born is a powerfull acid balloun.
A small scratch has already gone throught 3 decks.
The sequel to this movie is “Aliens”, then “Alien 3” and “Alien Resurrection”. “Prometheus” and “Alien Covenant” are a prequel sequence.
Because Stan Winston did the creature effects in “Aliens” (the immediate sequel to this film), he included an alien head on the trophy wall in another film he then worked on, “Predator 2”. Thus, the Alien films and the Predator films became linked … leading to “Alien vs Predator” (aka “AvP”) and “Alien vs Predator 2”.
[IMHO, “Aliens” is a great sequel, “Alien 3” and “Alien Resurrection” compare unfavourably… but are actually okay. (For “Alien 3” I’m referring to the director’s cut, the theatrical release was bad.) The prequels were disappointing. And as much as I like “Predator” and “Predator 2”, the AvP films are stinkers. YMMV.]
The creature design and the alien ship in this first movie were from Swiss artists HR Giger … a guy so weird, when an ex-girlfriend committed suicide, he was able to obtain her skeleton that he then had on display in his living room. For this movie, he slept on the alien ship set while it was being built … to induce nightmares for further inspiration.
The egg membrane is ‘Nottingham lace’: a cow’s stomach they got from a local butcher (fresh daily).
The dead facehugger was a latex shell filled with shellfish parts.
For the Nostromo, some of the upper deck corridor sets were repurposed for the lower decks. This required repainting them from white to black and gold. Apparently, this new paint would sometimes get scuffed off, so spare cans of black and gold spray paints were carried around on the camera dolly for quick touch-ups between takes.
The actor playing the alien was a Nigerian graphic design student the casting director met in a London pub. This role is his only acting credit.
The alien lifecycle (laying eggs in living hosts) was inspired by a certain species of wasp but intentionally altered to suggest oral rape to make it more disturbing … as was the scene where Ash tried to kill Ripley. (Did you notice the magazines Ash rolled up to use against Ripley were porn?)
Ah, that makes a lot of sense, I had no idea. Stan Winston deserves so much credit, I just saw Predator and the creature effects and overall design in that film are great as well, what a talented guy!
"Prometheus" actually ISN'T a prequel. It's in the same universe, but it doesn't lead into the first "Alien" film. The production team publicly distanced it from this. Plus, it was originally gonna be a sequel going back to the sci-fi horror roots of the first one until Fox came to Ridley Scott with the idea of Alien VS Predator, thus putting that project on hold for a while. James Cameron was also gonna be involved in that project, but he left, saying that the Alien franchise was Fox's asset and didn't wanna be involved in the studio's attempts to influence the sequel project.
Stan Winston and his team created the aliens and the xenomorphs.
They filmed the movie on location at Shepperton Studios London England.
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Hey Nick, it was really fun to see your face in reaction to various parts of this lol. Not sure what it is but ( and maybe I'm wrong) but your voice in this and a couple of your other videos kinda sounds like you possibly had/ have a bit of a cold? Anyways, back to the movie lol. I never saw this at the theater, while I liked Sci- Fi, I only liked certain forms of it and this being more of a creature horror deal, there was no way I was going. It was rare that I even went to see scary movies, I always waited to see them when they would get to HBO or Showtime that way if I don't like it, I can change the channel lol. I was somewhat late to the game so to say in getting into the ALIEN movies, since I had to get my nerve up to watch the first 2. I might've seen the 2nd one first. I can't remember at this point it was so long ago. The only ones I saw at the theaters were- Alien: Resurrection and AvP by that time I was a big fan of the movies but mainly my fave was the 2nd. There's some aspects of A:Res. that I actually liked. Sigourney W. was basically the best to watch her evolution as each one came out. (She wasn't in AvP btw.) Btw- the actor who plays Ashe, later plays Bilbo Baggins.
I don't think I had a cold for this one (although I was getting over Covid for a few videos, so definitely some where my throat was raspy). And hey, I think that's smart if you're not a huge fan of horror movies to watch them at home, keep your options of escape open haha. I have to agree with you, Sigourney is definitely one of the best aspects of these films, if I ever see the third one, it will probably be mainly to watch her performance again as Ripley. And while I loved Alien, I also hold Aliens as my personal favorite
When the staff moved 55gal. drums of KY-Jelly across boarders, they were stopped because they were suspected of being agents of sex trafficking.
So quiet. Yes, as the tagline states: "In space, no one can hear you scream."
You should try the game Alien Isolation. It covers events that occur between the 1st and 2nd movie around Ripley's daughter. They captured the feel and esthetic of the first movie really well in the game world.
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"I feel I know this actor from something..."
Bilbo Baggins.
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"I wonder what location they shot this..."
Shepperton Studios, London. The whole dang thing in Shepperton.
The whole of the interior of the Nostromo was to have been built as one three-deck set, with an alien planet outside the windows of the top deck, but the fire safety regs don't allow that, so there were three separate sets of each deck of the ship, one with the huge landing-leg retraction bay attached (which makes no sense if you think of the short ladders they came down to get there).
The four large lights in that room's ceiling are seen again at the end of the film, with a shuttle mock-up built around them.
There was a small alien planet set, and a couple of huge alien ship exterior and interior sets, with one used twice as where they find the bony alien, and the egg room.
Actually a cheap (ish) film for the time, and for the purposes of paying the cast and crew from the gross, it famously made no money at all.
A court case where that practise was exposed to daylight resulted in some changes, fortunately.
The realism of this movie's design makes it way more of a spiritual descendant of "2001: a Space Odyssey" than the Star Wars films which were made around the same time.
See Aliens !!!!!!
I did, the reaction will be out next week!
@@nickreacts6394 you may want to rewatch the end of the end credits and listen closely and you may have to turn the volume up slightly
The ship in Promethius is a similar model but the one in Aliens is supposed to be the same ship.
When HR Giger came to the United States to work on this movie, he was stopped at customs because his artwork was outright disturbing to the officials and they wanted to run him for warrants.
10:44 Swedish surrealist artist HR Giger. Many of his bio-mechanical erotic horror pieces were based heavily on night terrors he had. So, these things are the literal stuff of nightmares...
Jerry Goldsmith was one of the reasons why alien WORKED. But he had a shitty time making the music due to beef with Ridley Scott and the editor of the film.
They kept changing the music around without his knowledge and was forced to re-write certain cues. They only kept certain cues the same but changed everything else. Once Goldsmith saw the film in theaters upon release, he was NOT happy at all and was pissed! With this in mind, the booklet of the completed soundtrack pretty much explains more detail. It also goes over everything that was used in all of the music cues, both that was in the film and what was cut out. Even the demo tracks. The main theme for example was supposed to sound much more "romantic" and bombastic than what was heard in the film. After hearing the intended cues, I was totally on Goldsmith's side and understood why he was angry. Ironically enough, the cues that were heard in the film is still great and still works! But I prefer the original score alot more.
Dang, that’s too bad Jerry Goldsmith and Ridley Scott didn’t get along, I’ll have to check out the original score now
@@nickreacts6394 yeah they didn't get along at all. After Goldsmith's death, Scott used more of his themes for both Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Kind of as his way of apologizing and respecting him since they didn't get to buy the hachet beforehand. When you do hear the original intended score for Alien, you'll hear the differences on what it was supposed to be.
Hey, am i the only one who noticed the xenomorph hanging from the chains while Harry Dean Stanton is taking the shower?
Alien…..THE best, the original. Loved it when it came out.
Fantastic film. I'd love to have seen this movie when it first came out. Before we were all so desensitized to movies. But even now, it's pretty intense. Back then? This had to have been terrifying.
Ash may look familiar to you because he plays the elder Bilbo Baggins from Lord of the Rings.
First two Alien films are by far the greatest but I think you should watch all of them and make your own opinion about them. I love Alien 3 as it adds lots of fresh stuff to the alien lore. Resurrection was fun too.
Ian Holms played Bilbo Baggins
Quick recommendation re: Ridley Scott movies, try his first feature, "The Duellists" from 1977. It's a gorgeous, amazing film set in Napoleonic France, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. The film is based on a short novel by Joseph Conrad.
Addendum: Now that I've seen your video, I want to say how much I enjoy the work you do.
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Thank you so much for the kind words, I've got plenty more to come! And I've never heard of "The Duelists", but at this point I'm pretty much down to watch anything Ridley Scott, so I'll check it out (plus Harvey Keitel is always GREAT)
@@nickreacts6394 keep in mind it was made with a small budget, filmed in the middle of winter, on location in France, yet still looks amazing, also nice to see a film with realistic sword fighting....chur from NZ
Excellent Review!👍 I know I am probably out-numbered, but I think this original is the best; I have seen the first 3. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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And this, my Friend, is what we call a Classic of Horror and Suspence. The Monster changed Cinema forever - like Star Wars and Buffy 😉
If you want to learn more about the Xenomorph Design. m.ruclips.net/video/Y274MAueDdY/видео.html
H.R. Giger was a Genius.
The acid for blood came about because the writers needed a reason for the crew not to kill it.
In cinemas at the time as in exorcism and alien people fainted with shock
Many horror movies from this era ended up with sequels that became more action or comedy than the original film. Ripley is one of the best protagonists of the genre, though.
I saw it when it first came out, but saw it at a drive-in, which was ok, would've preferred seeing it in a cinema to be fully immersed because the sound, the lighting and so close up to the screen was better. It was huge when it was released. Nobody knew what to expect and it really was a shock to see a woman be the survivor, especially when her character was so by the book, Ripley was dismissed as a b*tch at first, but when the story moves along, you are practically her...trying to get out fast. And finally respect her strength and skill. She wasn't what a Sarah Connor type would be several years later, a rough looking warrior type, but was relatable as an every person faced with immense danger. The perfect fight or flight example. Definitely a new direction for the female characters in the genres of horror and sci-fi.
Prometheus is a must if you enjoyed alien! 😃
Alien 3 is a much better movie than most people who watched it when it came out remember it being. You'll have to watch it to find out why people couldn't be objective about it.