Wow, this was a difficult video to make! I spent a whole month just organizing 113 pages of notes in chronological order (for vids on Facehugger, Chestburster, and Full-Sized Xenomorph) while packing and moving to a new apartment. Right after we moved in and unpacked we all got Covid.😬I wanted to get this vid finished, so I made a voice clone to fill in some of the voice-over I couldn’t do without coughing. First off, what an age we live in! Second, this thing sounds more like me than me. For the past ten years all I’ve done was listen to my own voice all day and I couldn’t tell the difference. Neither could my wife. Let me know if you can tell. Check out the bonus vid on Ash's weird-looking head ($1 until my next vid goes up!): www.patreon.com/posts/108943091 Also, Alien: Romulus-you hyped or what?
Wow, that's awesome, I couldn't tell at all. Many thanks for all the videos you make, I love your content and always am eager for a new episode! Hope you and your family all recover well.
Toahhhh i couldn't tell it wasn't your voice for some of it. Hope the move went well and you both feel better now! Terrific episode. (also, cautiously optimistic about Alien Romulus). 🤞👽
Studio: Hey, we want you to design a creature called a face hugger. We want it to be as gross, violating, and disgusting as you can make it. Giger: Okay, sure. Here. Studio: *surprised pikachu face*
I find it interesting that there's a lot of talk about Giger being an obsessive perfectionist working on his "babies", yet more than once he's also shown to be happy with what other people have produced while he's been forced to dedicate his time to other things.
I mean, it CAN be both. It's just we, as humans, tend to link attributes. Someone being perfectionist, but with that comes ego. Being a perfectionist with a lack of ego, would allow someone to be obsessive, perfectionist, and still appreciate other's input and work.
I'm impressed with how much Scott modified Giger's original designs. It seems like Giger is more concerned with the fantastical elements than the practical, and it took someone like Scott to modify the facehugger to look like a real biological organism (I do like Giger's eyeball idea though. It would have been so creepy for the eye to follow Dallas and Ash around the med bay).
this is such a disorganised and chaotic way to create. as always, i’m kind of blown away that good films ever happen. I guess there’s a lesson here for anyone being creative in a group; the right situation never really exists
This is part of the reason why sequels are usually not very good (with the obvious exception of _Aliens_). It's almost random chance when everything aligns to make a great film and repeating that is practically impossible.
As a superfan of this movie, you'll never know how much I appreciate hearing every bit of minutiae of how these effects were created. Your attention to the timeline of production and who is responsible for each stage is just amazing to behold. Your hard work payed off, please keep up this series!
Adam Savage JUST released a video showing this EXACT facehugger prop as it is now, nearly 50 years later. It's going up for auction, and the auction house let him see it. It's still in really good condition for a latex prop. The color has gone a reddish brown, and there is some flaking on the legs, but 50 year old latex should have completely disintegrated by now.
Just watched it! So cool! The color and degraded quality actually makes it look like a cool variant from a new movie or something. Very cool to see that it still exists. I'd love to see it in a museum someday!
I'm surprised it still exists at all. So many props are just thrown away after the production. Apparently the Space Jockey was destroyed by Egyptian arsonists who believed it was evil.
Last time I trusted latex cost me 18 years of child support. Maybe Hollywood could design better ones. Good job doing all the legwork and putting this video together, was interesting to know the behind the scenes of such a good movie. Taking my 17 year old daughter out to see the Romulas in IMAX in two weeks so a new generation gets to enjoy it.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in these videos it’s that a lot of people involved in this movie saw Gigers work and hated it, and then down the road had to essentially hang their head and admit how good it was.
Very well told. I remember Dickens wanting to make his monsters look like dinosaurs. His interpretation of the big alien looked terrible although his facehugger worked well. Thank goodness they re-hired Giger!
It's funny considering he had recently come from a job making dinosaurs! Giger complains in his diary that Dicken's full-sized Xenomorph looked like a dinosaur. Good thing everything got sorted out!
@@CinemaTyler True. I have the book Giger's Alien (basically his diary with pictures) and he does indeed moan about Dickens interpretations much. I do wish they'd used Giger's chestburster concept though. It looks savage!
@@robcrow2593 Giger's chestburster looked amazing. I think they only got away with the Dickens stick puppet version because of the shock value of the whole scenario.
Incredible stuff. Watching footage like this really makes one lament the days where upper management and studio executives were still people with some connection to the art of making movies. Hearing about executives who were able to put initial differences aside in order to bring on artists like HR Geiger for the sake of the final product really puts in perspective how the people now running studios are just glorified accountants willing to sacrifice audience experience for the sake of the bottom line.
@@NatureTable C orny reply like your comment. If you're going to rant and rave against the movie industry and, all that is good and pure about creativity at least spell H.R. Giger's name correctly. Not Geiger as in geiger counter. It'll add some credibility to an already pretentious comment.
when i was in the fifth grade for some reason i equated the face hugger fingers to spider crab legs and now i can’t disassociate the two. The Face Huggers gave me me a fear of crustaceans
at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.
Cool vid with one minor gripe (sorry). The Necronomicon you show is the 'Simon Necronomicon', basically a book loosely based on H.P Lovecraft mythos with "mysterious origins" (a cool read by the way). The book you meant to show is H.R Giger's Necronomicon, his first art book published in '77 (which is amazing). The rest of the vids is cool though, presented very well. Great work!
The amount of effort and research you put into your videos is second to none Tyler I eagerly look forward to your uploads and your phenomenal videos. It’s great work to you and your team Tyler!
your content is truly awesome. And speaking from a cinephile's perspective, one that works in high-level visual fx in Hollywood, you're going deep enough to satisfy even the insider, and present it with an entirely accessible tone and visuals. Great footage btw. Keep it up, you're currently the best on the web!
i love these types of videos, im so tired of long form 3 hour long content from people you can tell asked chat gpt and then just riffted to gain watch time. so these greatly detailed but well laid out and edited videos are really good. dont stop making them! i can hear your passion
It's so awesome to hear how the entire process is meant to scare guys about the horrors of childbirth. It's a real thing that they came from and something their partner is going to experience, and that fact makes it that more primal of a fear.
You continue to amaze. This is one of the most fascinating BTS docs I've ever seen. I always wondered why the final face hugger was different from Geiger's many concepts. What a collaboration. Fantastic!
Tyler I know these videos often fluctuate in terms of popular, but I wanted to take a second to say in no way is that because of the quality. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into everything you make. You run one of the few channels on this platform that I know I’m always going to get a labor of love with every video thank you
Just saw Romulus the other night and have since been revisiting the entire series. Ended up on a BTS deep dive and found your channel. EXCELLENT job! Your channel rules!
I admire Giger. But he does sound difficult to work with. Even given the rudest of enviornements. Kudos to Ridley for somehow tying that ship together lmao
Really? Dicken sounds more awful to work with, Giger was willing to work from home, then got convinced into moving to London, and everyone was super eager to use his designs, and then he got shipped back to Zurich while this other guy constantly hating his designs was fucking up the project. Giger doesn’t sound like a diva, maybe one of those weirdo tortured genius types but not overly arrogant considering how smitten Ridley Scott was with his work.
I love your Alien videos, thanks for taking the time to make them! Really interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of this movie. Hope you'll do more videos because I cant get enough 😅
I saw Romolus a couple weeks ago and when the Xenomorph appeared I found myself thinking "Wow, this design is still ahead of its time even in 2024". It's like it wasn't even born from a human mind. Just incredible.
Amazing as always tyler. Tested have a recent video where Adam Savage examines one of the original facehugger props (the one that grips onto Kane's face in the med bay) and you get to see the inner mechanical workings of it. Well worth watching.
when you think of movies today, it's all about the story because you know they will make anything happen in post, but back then it was all about how to even get the shots they needed, I miss when movies coasted entirely on how realistic you could make the effects and didn't need plot twists and subverted expectations.
Pedantic nitpick: You used the wrong "Necronomicon" cover. That one is a book of spells. I own it and the spells really work! Anyway, great video. Your stuff is always great.
@@Reed3527don’t get me wrong it still pretty terrifying but jaws isn’t blowing a load down your throat and having its spawn burst out your rib cage…a shark isn’t comparable to a face hugger
When this movie premiered, it was a monster movie like no other. The insect/reptile images were scary enough. On film, it was the first to terrorise the audience.
Love the video. Just a small note, you used an image of the wrong Necronomicon around the 5:00 min mark. The one showed is about the occult. Gigers cover usually has his artwork on it.
As a child of the 80s and 90s nothing beats practical effects in movies CGI just doesn’t hit the same, Alien and even Labyrinth scared the sh!t outta me as a kid 😅
They really did nail it. When you're a child and you see the adult alien for the first time...... especially after seeing the previous stages😳 It opens ones imagination.
My thoughts exactly. Looks more disturbing with the huge teeth and it also makes more sense that those huge teeth would make it easier for the thing to rip through a rib cage. Ugh.
I’ve been a huge fan of Giger since High school, I even based a lot of my AP art projects on exploring his work just to better understand his dark vision. I wish he could have been my art teacher.
I saw this on channel 5 late one night when I was about 20 or something. Took me years to find out what it was called and found out the DVD was super expensive. Managed to get it very legally and watched it a few nights before you posted this video. It was ultra cheddar.
I saw Alien when I was 10. I lived in a small town with an old run-down theater. Obviously I was too young, but the place was being run by high school kids and they didn't care as long as you had money. I remember the chest burster scene like I just saw it in this video. 🤣 Seriously, I was too young. It scared the hell out of me. I couldn't get to sleep for a month. I couldn't eat if I thought about it. Every time my stomach felt funny, I thought, "This is it!" It definitely made a lasting impression on me.
What movie is talked about, dissected, and lurks in the dreams of many after 40+ years? Few cinematic specimens and Alien is one of them. So good that it is hard to replicate.
The thing I hate about the face hugger is people complaining about the fact he would have no air to breath when he is carried to the ship but if you look at some deleted scenes it completely fills the hole on the helmet with no gaps but it’s easy to miss in the movie as you only see the helmet split open to reveal the face hugger. It’s stuck on Kane’s face with its back plugging up the gap on the helmet like it’s stopping the air escaping to keep the air in the suit so it can feed air to Kane, at least that’s how I see it.
I think that the acid blood was really scary along with that thing wrapping it self around the host face and it's tail choking the victim was beyond belief !!!
For a video with such a wealth of detail, why isn't John Hurt mentioned by name even once? He is, after all, the actor who bore the brunt of wearing this wonderful creation and being an integral part of one of the most famous scenes in cinematic history! Not even a tidge about the hours he surely spent putting on and wearing this elaborate creature. Not as bad an ordeal as the makeup he wore on The Elephant Man, but surely he deserves more of a mention than simply being referred to by the character he plays?
I had a section on John Hurt, but it dragged a bit so I cut it. I have much more to say about him for an upcoming Chestburster video. For the Facehugger, I was kind of surprised to learn that the sacs inflating and deflating we done by an operator and not simply Hurt breathing in and out with it on his face. Seems like it would have been easier that way.
@@CinemaTyler Thanks for the reply, Tyler. Didn't mean to slam your video, as the amazing amount of detail and insight you bring in your videos is some of the best I've seen here. But good to hear there is something forthcoming with Hurt. I didn't see Star Wars when it opened, waiting till that July to see it with a girlfriend. It is hard to understate the impact of that film. But I remember the hype over Alien, the excerpts in Heavy Metal, and the huge impact that film had. Saw it opening night here in Toronto, very memorable experience, the chest-burst scene a major freakout for many. Speaking of horror, few seem to realize (though I am sure you know this) that one of the cast here was also in one of the most famous horror films of all time - Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds!
4:53 "GIGER'S [DESIGN]'S LOOKED LIKE something OUT OF A BAD DREAM" ...A VERY APT WAY OF DESCRIBING ANY "art"from H.R. Giger Disturbing on a very base "survival fight or flight" level👍
Just imagine that thing jumping on you, it's probuscus entering your mouth, you can't stop it, you don't like it, but at the same time there's something exciting about it, something.. arousing.
It just dawned on my now. The face-hugger had strong enough acid to get through the Kane's face shield, yet his face didn't even have one burn from the ordeal. Comments?
Wonder if Geiger was part of Aliens (2) design too. The full grown alien was somewhat different and more scary looking in the next movie. Of course the queen stole the show in that one.
4:00 I think the idea was to imply that Giger liked incorporating functionality into his designs: the large penile head of "The Big Chap" housed the extendable tongue to justify the large head; the face hugger here had mandibles similar to pliers so as to pry open the victim's mouth. Looking at the more wormy design, I have to wonder if this led to the Giant Maggot scene in *Galaxy of Terror.* 23:18 it is an odd image, but you can see a very large eye and a small mouth oriented to the right.
Yeah, the long head was meant to hold the tongue (although the tongue wasn't visible in the original painting). It's interesting how the tube from the underside of the Facehugger is missing when they examine it. I wonder if it detached and went into Kane's stomach. Looking at my son on the ultrasound totally reminded me of that image, hehe. We actually had an Alien-themed baby shower!
Being a weirdo who has read hundreds of pages of HR Giger's writing from his books, I actually can't listen to audio of him speaking, for some reason. Probably something to do with having to know your heroes from a distance. I'm sure the video is great though. I recommend doing a video about the train nightmare scene from Species. The book on the filming of the movie is affordably priced, and there's some old home movie footage on RUclips of Giger making the model train set.
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Wow, this was a difficult video to make! I spent a whole month just organizing 113 pages of notes in chronological order (for vids on Facehugger, Chestburster, and Full-Sized Xenomorph) while packing and moving to a new apartment. Right after we moved in and unpacked we all got Covid.😬I wanted to get this vid finished, so I made a voice clone to fill in some of the voice-over I couldn’t do without coughing. First off, what an age we live in! Second, this thing sounds more like me than me. For the past ten years all I’ve done was listen to my own voice all day and I couldn’t tell the difference. Neither could my wife. Let me know if you can tell.
Check out the bonus vid on Ash's weird-looking head ($1 until my next vid goes up!): www.patreon.com/posts/108943091
Also, Alien: Romulus-you hyped or what?
I absolutely love your videos. They're so well done and well researched. This has been my favorite so far. Great work!
The quality of research is what makes your videos special
Wow, that's awesome, I couldn't tell at all. Many thanks for all the videos you make, I love your content and always am eager for a new episode! Hope you and your family all recover well.
The Patreon plug and subsequent Romulus mention sounds different.
Toahhhh i couldn't tell it wasn't your voice for some of it. Hope the move went well and you both feel better now! Terrific episode. (also, cautiously optimistic about Alien Romulus). 🤞👽
Studio: Hey, we want you to design a creature called a face hugger. We want it to be as gross, violating, and disgusting as you can make it.
Giger: Okay, sure. Here.
Studio: *surprised pikachu face*
“That’s how i’m going to attack the audience, i’m going to attack them sexually” is a crazy sentence
Yeah like what the hell was that😂😂😂
@@Hardrive2677 the 70s
that sentence is free real estate for lawyers
It's abrasive but it makes sense. The whole entire facehugger process is steeped in disturbing sexual imagery.
If he said that in 2020s he'd have been homeless. Shameful 2020s.
I find it interesting that there's a lot of talk about Giger being an obsessive perfectionist working on his "babies", yet more than once he's also shown to be happy with what other people have produced while he's been forced to dedicate his time to other things.
I mean, it CAN be both. It's just we, as humans, tend to link attributes. Someone being perfectionist, but with that comes ego. Being a perfectionist with a lack of ego, would allow someone to be obsessive, perfectionist, and still appreciate other's input and work.
I'm impressed with how much Scott modified Giger's original designs. It seems like Giger is more concerned with the fantastical elements than the practical, and it took someone like Scott to modify the facehugger to look like a real biological organism (I do like Giger's eyeball idea though. It would have been so creepy for the eye to follow Dallas and Ash around the med bay).
this is such a disorganised and chaotic way to create. as always, i’m kind of blown away that good films ever happen. I guess there’s a lesson here for anyone being creative in a group; the right situation never really exists
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
This is part of the reason why sequels are usually not very good (with the obvious exception of _Aliens_). It's almost random chance when everything aligns to make a great film and repeating that is practically impossible.
@@_droid so much money for random chance. i definitely don’t the mental fortitude to ride that wave :)
As a superfan of this movie, you'll never know how much I appreciate hearing every bit of minutiae of how these effects were created. Your attention to the timeline of production and who is responsible for each stage is just amazing to behold. Your hard work payed off, please keep up this series!
“Hey the Prince of Darkness wants all the bones we can find delivered to Shed B!”
“Is it Tuesday already?”
Adam Savage JUST released a video showing this EXACT facehugger prop as it is now, nearly 50 years later.
It's going up for auction, and the auction house let him see it. It's still in really good condition for a latex prop. The color has gone a reddish brown, and there is some flaking on the legs, but 50 year old latex should have completely disintegrated by now.
Just watched it! So cool! The color and degraded quality actually makes it look like a cool variant from a new movie or something. Very cool to see that it still exists. I'd love to see it in a museum someday!
I'm surprised it still exists at all. So many props are just thrown away after the production. Apparently the Space Jockey was destroyed by Egyptian arsonists who believed it was evil.
Last time I trusted latex cost me 18 years of child support. Maybe Hollywood could design better ones. Good job doing all the legwork and putting this video together, was interesting to know the behind the scenes of such a good movie. Taking my 17 year old daughter out to see the Romulas in IMAX in two weeks so a new generation gets to enjoy it.
@@nickwarner8158 So the latex failing was not a bad thing.
@@nickwarner8158 what a good dad... your daughter will be scarred for life 😂
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in these videos it’s that a lot of people involved in this movie saw Gigers work and hated it, and then down the road had to essentially hang their head and admit how good it was.
This is the most in depth video on the facehugger that’s I’ve ever seen. I learned some facts I didn’t know. 11/10 Great work!
Glad you liked it! Thanks!
It’s unreal they dismissed Giger.
Corpos have lower than room temp IQs
Very well told. I remember Dickens wanting to make his monsters look like dinosaurs. His interpretation of the big alien looked terrible although his facehugger worked well. Thank goodness they re-hired Giger!
It's funny considering he had recently come from a job making dinosaurs! Giger complains in his diary that Dicken's full-sized Xenomorph looked like a dinosaur. Good thing everything got sorted out!
@@CinemaTyler True. I have the book Giger's Alien (basically his diary with pictures) and he does indeed moan about Dickens interpretations much.
I do wish they'd used Giger's chestburster concept though. It looks savage!
Always thought the chest burster looked a bit lame, now I know why.
@@robcrow2593 Yes, that little squeaky chap with the tiny smiling teeth. Not brutal enough.
@@robcrow2593 Giger's chestburster looked amazing. I think they only got away with the Dickens stick puppet version because of the shock value of the whole scenario.
This is probably the best documentary about Facehugger ever made. Damn amazing work. You should make a documentary about 1987 Predator design.
Incredible stuff. Watching footage like this really makes one lament the days where upper management and studio executives were still people with some connection to the art of making movies. Hearing about executives who were able to put initial differences aside in order to bring on artists like HR Geiger for the sake of the final product really puts in perspective how the people now running studios are just glorified accountants willing to sacrifice audience experience for the sake of the bottom line.
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@@vincentgoupil180 I hardly know her!
@@NatureTable
C orny reply like your comment.
If you're going to rant and rave against the movie industry and, all that is good and pure about creativity at least spell H.R. Giger's name correctly. Not Geiger as in geiger counter. It'll add some credibility to an already pretentious comment.
Best film documentaries on the platform. And I never get tired of learning details about how the greatest horror film of all time was made. Bravo.
H.R. Giger is the Prince of Darkness who brought us the best design of an alien ever made, in the most iconic movie about aliens ever made.
I was a child in the 1990s, saw a rerun of alien, still gives me nightmares. They Definitely got it right first time!
when i was in the fifth grade for some reason i equated the face hugger fingers to spider crab legs and now i can’t disassociate the two. The Face Huggers gave me me a fear of crustaceans
I can definitely see it, now that you mention it! Crustaceous are pretty alien.
Yes very true, and if you open a crab it looks just so skin crawling. It definitely tastes good but I wouldn’t seek it actively🤣
I have always been so impressed with Giger. He is such a phenomenal artist.
at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.
Wondering if the FBI or FDA will arrest you first? 😹
You’re the one who did that! It was great!
what the hell are you talkingabout ?? seek help bro
A well prepared man. Very generous! And disgusting. Bless your casualties
Forgot about this copypasta
Cool vid with one minor gripe (sorry). The Necronomicon you show is the 'Simon Necronomicon', basically a book loosely based on H.P Lovecraft mythos with "mysterious origins" (a cool read by the way). The book you meant to show is H.R Giger's Necronomicon, his first art book published in '77 (which is amazing). The rest of the vids is cool though, presented very well. Great work!
The amount of effort and research you put into your videos is second to none Tyler
I eagerly look forward to your uploads and your phenomenal videos. It’s great work to you and your team Tyler!
Have you won any awards for these series yet? Your videos are so well made and in-depth!
Just finished watching Alien in 4K and this video drops
Amazing timing Tyler
your content is truly awesome. And speaking from a cinephile's perspective, one that works in high-level visual fx in Hollywood, you're going deep enough to satisfy even the insider, and present it with an entirely accessible tone and visuals. Great footage btw. Keep it up, you're currently the best on the web!
i love these types of videos, im so tired of long form 3 hour long content from people you can tell asked chat gpt and then just riffted to gain watch time. so these greatly detailed but well laid out and edited videos are really good. dont stop making them! i can hear your passion
It's so awesome to hear how the entire process is meant to scare guys about the horrors of childbirth. It's a real thing that they came from and something their partner is going to experience, and that fact makes it that more primal of a fear.
You continue to amaze. This is one of the most fascinating BTS docs I've ever seen. I always wondered why the final face hugger was different from Geiger's many concepts. What a collaboration. Fantastic!
Alien wouldn't of been Alien without the twisted brilliant mind of H.R. Giger, I for one, will always thank him for that. Alien is a masterpiece.
Tyler I know these videos often fluctuate in terms of popular, but I wanted to take a second to say in no way is that because of the quality. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into everything you make. You run one of the few channels on this platform that I know I’m always going to get a labor of love with every video thank you
I wonder if Giger was in any way an inspiration for David in Prometheus.
nice! there’s been a recent surge of search activity around alien and specifically the facehugger. glad to see there more vested interest as of late!
Just saw Romulus the other night and have since been revisiting the entire series. Ended up on a BTS deep dive and found your channel. EXCELLENT job! Your channel rules!
It’s not actually a face hugger, there’s more going on than hugging. It’s a face-fugger.
0:18 O'Bannon: and I'm not going after the women in the audience, I'm going to attack the *men*
@@vincentgoupil180an absolute chad. We love him.
What’s that thing it’s got down his throat?
@@brinsonharris9816 "Uh, that's a dingus."
Ooh, a CinemaTyler day. A good day!
Fantastically researched! Really well done, this was immensely enjoyable!
Thank you, Tyler! 🎬👾
I admire Giger. But he does sound difficult to work with. Even given the rudest of enviornements. Kudos to Ridley for somehow tying that ship together lmao
Really? Dicken sounds more awful to work with, Giger was willing to work from home, then got convinced into moving to London, and everyone was super eager to use his designs, and then he got shipped back to Zurich while this other guy constantly hating his designs was fucking up the project. Giger doesn’t sound like a diva, maybe one of those weirdo tortured genius types but not overly arrogant considering how smitten Ridley Scott was with his work.
Giger was the easiest to work with. Everyone else was the problem except Ridley Scott. Producers, executives were the problem
I’m not a cinephile, but I love Giger. This series is amazing! Thank you. You earned my sub.
I love your Alien videos, thanks for taking the time to make them! Really interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of this movie.
Hope you'll do more videos because I cant get enough 😅
When I think I know all I can know about Alien, this video comes along and uncovers so much more. Superb.
Very impressive work as always, Tyler, your ability to get into the nuance and detail is amazing.
Small error but at 5:12 you show Necronomicon (1980) by Ed Simon and not Giger's Necronomicon (1977)
Those damn facehuggers traumatized me til this day. They are the reason I don’t like spiders, crabs, or anything that looks similar 😩
I, too, couldn't detect the AI narration insets. Absolutely brilliant work that left me breathless.
I can’t think of anything more terrifying than the face hugger.
All your Alien videos are so comprehensive! And I thought I’d seen everything! Brilliant stuff!❤
Awesome documentary, really great work. It continues to amaze me that Alien even got made, the fact it came out so well is a modern miracle.
This video was awesome ! I barely have seen anything related to Giger, so this was quite fun.
Thanks so much for making this, brilliant stuff 👍
I always wondered how the face hugger melted the helmet, but not his face 🫥
This video is exactly what i was looking for and more. Good job
I saw Romolus a couple weeks ago and when the Xenomorph appeared I found myself thinking "Wow, this design is still ahead of its time even in 2024". It's like it wasn't even born from a human mind. Just incredible.
Amazing as always tyler. Tested have a recent video where Adam Savage examines one of the original facehugger props (the one that grips onto Kane's face in the med bay) and you get to see the inner mechanical workings of it. Well worth watching.
Thanks for the heads up! I just watched it. Crazy that it is still in tact! The color looks freaky, heh.
@@CinemaTyler Yeah the colour looks like the most evil old pretzel that fell down the back of the couch for several decades;]
But... was it worth hatching?
when you think of movies today, it's all about the story because you know they will make anything happen in post,
but back then it was all about how to even get the shots they needed,
I miss when movies coasted entirely on how realistic you could make the effects and didn't need plot twists and subverted expectations.
I love that satisfying CRUNCH of the helmet when they cut it open. This movie was pure genius, all due to Ridley Scott.
Always a f i n e day when you grace us with another vid
My favorite film of all time. It wouldn’t be the flawless work of art it is today without Giger
Superb stuff (as always!)
Pedantic nitpick: You used the wrong "Necronomicon" cover. That one is a book of spells. I own it and the spells really work!
Anyway, great video. Your stuff is always great.
That original sketch given to Giger is the best thing I've seen all day. Its an angry little starfish! 😂
THE most scariest monster ever created in film history. Nothing has or ever will surpass it
Most scary* or scariest*
I don’t know….Jaws was pretty terrifying
@@Reed3527don’t get me wrong it still pretty terrifying but jaws isn’t blowing a load down your throat and having its spawn burst out your rib cage…a shark isn’t comparable to a face hugger
Fair enough
Oh boy, here we go. Kudos for Your perseverance and hard work!
This is just the sweetest creature
When this movie premiered, it was a monster movie like no other. The insect/reptile images were scary enough. On film, it was the first to terrorise the audience.
Amazing video as always 😊
Love the video. Just a small note, you used an image of the wrong Necronomicon around the 5:00 min mark. The one showed is about the occult. Gigers cover usually has his artwork on it.
As a child of the 80s and 90s nothing beats practical effects in movies CGI just doesn’t hit the same, Alien and even Labyrinth scared the sh!t outta me as a kid 😅
They really did nail it. When you're a child and you see the adult alien for the first time...... especially after seeing the previous stages😳 It opens ones imagination.
That chestburster design I think would have been even better
My thoughts exactly. Looks more disturbing with the huge teeth and it also makes more sense that those huge teeth would make it easier for the thing to rip through a rib cage. Ugh.
I always figured it sprayed a weaker acid to soften the ribcage before the burst. @BS_Profile
Definitely not.
The version we got is simplistic, and even looks like a smaller version of the xenomorph
Amazing video man. Keep it up
I’ve been a huge fan of Giger since High school, I even based a lot of my AP art projects on exploring his work just to better understand his dark vision. I wish he could have been my art teacher.
To me the Facehugger never looked as good as it did in the original film. The color, the fingers and tail. Incredible.
I saw this on channel 5 late one night when I was about 20 or something. Took me years to find out what it was called and found out the DVD was super expensive. Managed to get it very legally and watched it a few nights before you posted this video. It was ultra cheddar.
Great work, thank you 🫲👅🫱
Clash of the creatives.. Great video !!
Everyone talks about how good it looks, but I wanna know how it smelled on set for the facehugger dissection. 😂
Well giger was definitely sick as most people know by now, but the that's why his design worked.
I saw Alien when I was 10. I lived in a small town with an old run-down theater. Obviously I was too young, but the place was being run by high school kids and they didn't care as long as you had money. I remember the chest burster scene like I just saw it in this video. 🤣
Seriously, I was too young. It scared the hell out of me. I couldn't get to sleep for a month. I couldn't eat if I thought about it. Every time my stomach felt funny, I thought, "This is it!" It definitely made a lasting impression on me.
What movie is talked about, dissected, and lurks in the dreams of many after 40+ years? Few cinematic specimens and Alien is one of them. So good that it is hard to replicate.
The thing I hate about the face hugger is people complaining about the fact he would have no air to breath when he is carried to the ship but if you look at some deleted scenes it completely fills the hole on the helmet with no gaps but it’s easy to miss in the movie as you only see the helmet split open to reveal the face hugger. It’s stuck on Kane’s face with its back plugging up the gap on the helmet like it’s stopping the air escaping to keep the air in the suit so it can feed air to Kane, at least that’s how I see it.
Great work as usual, Tyler.
I grew up staring at that brain salad surgery album cover, I never knew the artist was also responsible for the iconic alien imagery.
Seems some people failed to notice the precision and genuis of Giger.
Love the video, good job man!
I think that the acid blood was really scary along with that thing wrapping it self around the host face and it's tail choking the victim was beyond belief !!!
Another brilliant video! Can't wait for your video on the Apocalypse Now voice over as i'm currently reading Dispatches!
For a video with such a wealth of detail, why isn't John Hurt mentioned by name even once? He is, after all, the actor who bore the brunt of wearing this wonderful creation and being an integral part of one of the most famous scenes in cinematic history! Not even a tidge about the hours he surely spent putting on and wearing this elaborate creature. Not as bad an ordeal as the makeup he wore on The Elephant Man, but surely he deserves more of a mention than simply being referred to by the character he plays?
I had a section on John Hurt, but it dragged a bit so I cut it. I have much more to say about him for an upcoming Chestburster video. For the Facehugger, I was kind of surprised to learn that the sacs inflating and deflating we done by an operator and not simply Hurt breathing in and out with it on his face. Seems like it would have been easier that way.
@@CinemaTyler Thanks for the reply, Tyler. Didn't mean to slam your video, as the amazing amount of detail and insight you bring in your videos is some of the best I've seen here. But good to hear there is something forthcoming with Hurt.
I didn't see Star Wars when it opened, waiting till that July to see it with a girlfriend. It is hard to understate the impact of that film. But I remember the hype over Alien, the excerpts in Heavy Metal, and the huge impact that film had. Saw it opening night here in Toronto, very memorable experience, the chest-burst scene a major freakout for many. Speaking of horror, few seem to realize (though I am sure you know this) that one of the cast here was also in one of the most famous horror films of all time - Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds!
This is about the facehugger being made.
@@desertweasel6965 ...and that face was John Hurt's. Odd omission.
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"GIGER'S [DESIGN]'S LOOKED LIKE something OUT OF A BAD DREAM" ...A VERY APT WAY OF DESCRIBING ANY "art"from H.R. Giger
Disturbing on a very base "survival fight or flight" level👍
This is legit nightmare fuel... Amazing work!
Just imagine that thing jumping on you, it's probuscus entering your mouth, you can't stop it, you don't like it, but at the same time there's something exciting about it, something.. arousing.
It just dawned on my now. The face-hugger had strong enough acid to get through the Kane's face shield, yet his face didn't even have one burn from the ordeal. Comments?
Wonder if Geiger was part of Aliens (2) design too.
The full grown alien was somewhat different and more scary looking in the next movie. Of course the queen stole the show in that one.
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A creature shaped like a hand with creepy long fingers and a spinal cord as a tale is bad enough but then you add couple of ballsacks to it…oh shit.
It really looks alive.
I think getting called "Sick" by a studio executive is probably a high honor
i was so curious how they did the acid blood / melting metal, now it seems so obvious !
4:00 I think the idea was to imply that Giger liked incorporating functionality into his designs: the large penile head of "The Big Chap" housed the extendable tongue to justify the large head; the face hugger here had mandibles similar to pliers so as to pry open the victim's mouth. Looking at the more wormy design, I have to wonder if this led to the Giant Maggot scene in *Galaxy of Terror.*
23:18 it is an odd image, but you can see a very large eye and a small mouth oriented to the right.
Yeah, the long head was meant to hold the tongue (although the tongue wasn't visible in the original painting). It's interesting how the tube from the underside of the Facehugger is missing when they examine it. I wonder if it detached and went into Kane's stomach.
Looking at my son on the ultrasound totally reminded me of that image, hehe. We actually had an Alien-themed baby shower!
Being a weirdo who has read hundreds of pages of HR Giger's writing from his books, I actually can't listen to audio of him speaking, for some reason. Probably something to do with having to know your heroes from a distance. I'm sure the video is great though. I recommend doing a video about the train nightmare scene from Species. The book on the filming of the movie is affordably priced, and there's some old home movie footage on RUclips of Giger making the model train set.
He doesn't do much talking in this video.
Thank you so much for this amazing video!
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