Alien - Dallas Shaft Scene

[OhHaiYT]

This scene scared the shit out of me when i was little.

[CodMoose]

@OhHaiYT oh yah me to

[monkeychikung]

Jazz hands

[TheSnowdog21121]

We studied this scene in a film class I took once. The teacher talked about how Ridley Scott used that tracker as a device to build suspence.

[CaptainStefanLovric]

Wonderful scene full of suspense from beggining to end... A masterpiece of a movie. Fuck the movies made today they are fulll of shit I swear.

[SamuelH105]

First time I watched this, I jumped out of my seat... And I do mean literally coming out of my seat! It still makes me flinch after hundreds of viewings

[spittingbloodhc]

No blood, no Dallas.

[WeylandYutaniInc91]

This is one of my favorite scenes in Alien. This scene use to scare the shit out of me. Love it.

[esyphillis101]

This should be called the best surprise hug scene in movie history.

[Galentw]

They say this Dallas Shaft is a bad motha-shut your mouth! I'm talking about Shaft, man. Then we can dig it

[Theomite]

I love this scene, but what's with the 30fps? Did you rip this from a PAL format disc?

[FanglezTheEmoBoy]

Caution for alien scream earphone users!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Punk93Metal]

Still one of the scariest movies ever made. And there was no gore.

[Galentw]

Who's the man that would risk his neck for his brother man? Dallas Shaft

[TheRaellz]

@Galentw lol! love it.

[JermzzzyFTW]

Legit naming my son after this dude. Fucking legend.

[sundersart]

Dallas has steel in his gut , no way id do it.

[RONGEE2099]

A classic scene

[NorrisArt]

Pwnt

[ReconRaptor]

Damn he moved right into it.

[Deuterium2H]

This scene should be studied in film school (hell, it probably is). A perfect composition in which the tension slowly builds, the growing sense of impending doom, the wonderful lighting and cinematography, all combined with Jerry Goldsmith's haunting score.

[mcnettsuxwang]

Technically he doesnt die you see him later covered in goo and he begs for death

[bengacris]

@mcnettsuxwang yes, because the aliens prefer to use humans to breed new xenomorphs. But that scene was cut from the movie and I don't understand why the alien would keep them alive when there's no other eggs (facehugger) in the ship. So I guess that's a reason they removed this scene.

[bananaempijama]

@bengacris never thought about that explanation but it makes so much sense ;)

or maybe the alien knew how to pilot the ship back to LV-426 ,so he could bring more eggs XD

[bengacris]

@bananaempijama after watching some deleted scenes of Alien, you can see that the alien actually didn't kill Lambert and Dallas but captured them and transformed them into eggs. So they can actually make an egg out of humans then make a facehugger, ready to get more people. The only person he could have gotten was Ripley anyway, she was the last on the ship.

But he could have gotten ripley too and then make 3 eggs and wait more a rescue crew to come and infect ;)

[bananaempijama]

@bengacris but that is strange because only the queen can lay eggs ,that produce facehuggers and finally infect humans to breed new aliens.

this specie is like straight foward:makes an environment to make a nest,catch species so that they can be used to breed aliens and defend the nest at all costs.

i think he was on phase 2.maybe he was just waiting for the queen and of course,more facehuggers.

i saw those deleted scenes and i think the movie is better without them ;)

[bengacris]

@bananaempijama well the queen only made appearance in the Alien 4, wich didn't fit at all with the first Alien and the first concept of Gigger's Alien creature. It was not meant to have a queen I think.

[bananaempijama]

@bengacris 4?i think you mean alien 2.

[Khamul]

@bengacris The queen was in Aliens, which was the second movie.

[bengacris]

@Khamul @bananaempijama yes sorry I meant in Aliens (Alien 2). Because the original Gigger's creature was not really meant to be bug-like with a queen and nest/hive, etc. It's also why the Aliens in Aliens (Alien 2) are different from the one in Alien (1)

[tonious35]

While being scared for Dallas when I was young watching this scene, I knew Ash (Ian Holm's character) was cheering for that xenomorph bastard...

[2000beastman]

No horror movie today still can't compete with this movie!!!!

[MrDavidwarbeck]

the most brilliant thing about this scene is that when this film first came out you sat there thinking that the alien was this little thing (the chestburster), you didn't know what it looked like and then "bam" this huge, humanoid thing comes out of nowhere and its absoloutely pants shittingly scary!

[Eragarev]

Even the hatches are totally badass.

[dumbestname]

1st time I saw this was on NY broadcast tv. When I was a kid I sued to sit on the floor close to the tv. This scene made me watch the rest of the movie on the sofa.

[TheGodParticle]

What are my chances ? Does not compute...

[PTOPlainLazy]

i justshit my sen at the end :L

[slyman312]

I don't get why everyone is so freaked out, the alien only wanted a hug

[ninethreefivesix]

still scary as hell

[ceska82]

04:14 SHITT!! i screamed just like first time i saw this movie 15 years ago.. xD

[Zmister517]

4:15

WELCOME TO MY HUMBLE ABODE!

[bananaempijama]

@Zmister517 i laughed my ass off LMAO

[chavedappelle]

"I LOVE YOU!"

[alexhortdog95]

The alien was like, "Oh yeah, buddy. I gots this."

I do have a gripe about this movie, though (a small one)...

Why no love for the brotha?!? Alien doesn't like dark meat...he just splits Parker in half and takes the white woman?!? LOL

[222333aaaaaa]

@alexhortdog95 - hahahahaha

[SteveSabbai]

...Don't play Hide and Go Seek with the neighborhood Bully! :P

[SteveSabbai]

...720p! THANK YOU!!!...

[CthulhuChick666]

that beeping is terrifying

[MrValiant61]

I`m counting the days, Ridley. Now don`t let me down.

[mrlavabeast]

Fucking terrifying on all levels. The atmosphere and build up with the music isjust chilling. Nothing in todays so called scary movies will ever come close to this.

[SephirothgeneX7]

try watching this at 1:00am on an HDTV with surround sound

[mdtwiztid]

@SephirothgeneX7 yea it scared the shit out of me

[Alienmojo]

My favorite scene from my favorite all time movie. :)

[bexysboy]

I'm watching aliens with my dad today When my sis is in bed and I'm gonna shit myself.

[originaldelta]

This is just so bone chillingly terrifying...the eerie radio white noise at the end ..can't imagine how it would be in a theater setting.

[GarnetBering93]

I've seen 650 films, and this is the scariest scene from the scariest movie.

[PKP405]

4:14 How many seats do you think the theater staff had to clean after that one? lol

[drybowserman9091]

All it wanted was a Hug!!!

[Schnellar]

I love throughout the whole movie you really don't see much of the alien. It's all atmosphere. That's not the same case with The Thing and it works it's just not as scary as this.

[kev3d]

This is a film that I wish I would un-see so I could watch it fresh all over again. Movies this good come about maybe once a decade.

[MatSKULLZ]

wat i like about this scene is around the time they lose the signal, u get that real sense of panic and terror and it only gets worse as the music plays it along til he gets nabbed. great fick :)

[SUNSET7900]

4:14 the alien says''HUG ME OR DIEEE`!!!''

[drybowserman9091]

@SUNSET7900 He didn't hug it. :(

[matreyia]

Only a white person would go hunt for an alien with acid blood in a confined space...oh, hollywood....grow up.

[alexhortdog95]

"Classic scene from Alien (1979) Dallas (Tom Skerritt) tries to hunt down the alien on board"

Alien Hunt FAIL, Captain Dallas.

:-)

[alexkrycek21]

This is one movie I wish I could have seen at the cinema on first release back in 1979. Not just the opportunity to have seen such an incredible movie on the big screen but to listen to other peoples' reactions at tension building scenes like this one.

[SephirothgeneX7]

i still class this as the scariest film of all time not fucking jaws who cares if jaws is based on real events it has nothing compared to this

[222333aaaaaa]

@SephirothgeneX7 - Dude, Jaws was pretty fucking scary, too.

[MrAppleseed88]

@222333aaaaaa yep. I was 7 when I saw jaws and that fucked me up for life. I hate the water, and I hate sharks.

[tjorvendc]

that poor alien only wants a hug

[Numinous20111]

I still don't understand the blips representing Dallas' and the alien's position/movement. It looks as if the alien is moving towards Dallas on the same horizontal level, but then the alien is below Dallas. Am I misreading the display that Lambert and Parker are looking at?

[RKsolid5586]

@Numinous20111 I'm guessing it was a restriction/limit of the technology, possible one that Ash didn't inform them about. We don't see the box when Dallas climbs down the ladder so I always assumed the blips were on a 2D field where the height axis is ignored.

[Numinous20111]

@RKsolid5586 That's a very good explanation and I like the way it include's Ash again protecting the alien.

[elemento188]

When I was a child, I spent two weeks watching this movie everyday, no kidding. Classic

[brucewilliammcgrath]

pause at 4:16 gimme a hug :D

[brucewilliammcgrath]

any one else notice how it looks like alien trys to hug dallas?

[VergilsRespite]

If that lady hadn't flipped her shit and started crying into the mic. "Move, blah blah blah," maybe he would've escaped. What an ape. She throws a hissy fit in fear, which in turn gets him even more terrified, and then frightens him into making a hastey escape in what may have been the wrong direction. Some comaraderie. Yes, I would've been terrified too, but I wouldn't have started screaming Hail Marry in fear, when I myself am safe.

[PKP405]

@VergilsRespite It wouldn't have made any difference. That Xenomorph was more or less just chillaxing in the vents. Waiting on Dallas to come to it. Which he did. If it wanted to, the damn thing could've closed on him in the blink of an eye. The moment Dallas set foot in those vents, he was very much fucked!

[RaiderHater578]

Classic scene from an absolute cinematic masterpiece, and I'm truly amazed at how well this film holds up nowadays. Modern movies would show Dallas getting brutally murdered with gore and guts flying around, but this one opted to not show his death at all. In my opinion, IMAGINING what that poor guy went through is scarier than anything they could have filmed.

This bit--along with the chestburster scene--are some of the scariest, most intense moments in film history.

[colliric]

@RaiderHater578

Ridley Scott is just a pretty dang good Director and still is.... I also love the scene in Gladiator when they walk out onto the arena... and it does the 360 shot... awesome.

[PKP405]

@RaiderHater578 He was supposed to have been cocooned actually. But, that scene was scrapped!

[bananaempijama]

@RaiderHater578 i think what Riddley Scott did was "imagine if it was you instead of Dallas".well i think this all the time when i see this masterpiece scene :)

[drybowserman9091]

@RaiderHater578 The movie in itself was far better than many horror movies of today. Each death had the "touch" to make it horrifying. Kane went through a violent experience as the chestburster killed him. Brett was the first victim of the adult, introducing what they were truly dealing with. Dallas' death is left to your imagination. Parker was no match for the Alien's strength, and Lambert was (from what I've heard) probed and killed with the tail. and each death was filmed perfectly.

[kscandalful]

What does Dallas say after Lambert says "it's somewhere around the 3rd junction." it's at about 2:05.

[debntrav]

@kscandalful Sounds like "I'm going to keep moving on."

[OoarRiverside]

Favourite scene :)

[Alxmir23]

the alien is like SURPRISE!

[weeman206]

fucking hell ill never forget how badly i shit bricks in this scene when i first saw it still gets me now even though i know whats coming

[Spore6001]

4:15 Would you like a hug?

[Abracamoron]

The best death this guy had the privilege to go through

who wants a hug?

[ultimateman45]

That Alien obviously had Scrambler Pro

[remaftp]

Dude, find a corner and start camping.

[Surebro0]

he did want a hug they all want a hug

[XomegaZ]

@Surebro0 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOL

[psykaholic]

yea, he gets the shaft alright.

[ryukinthetruck]

lol it looked like it just wanted a hug...

[sinto]

This is perhaps my favorite scene in the movie. I you put yourself in his shoes as opposed to the rest of the crew who got killed/abducted by the alien, Dallas' was in the worst situation. He was alone in a cold, dank and overly claustrophobic system of air shafts, not to mention really dark, while the alien could appear from any corner at any second.

[freqeist]

4:15 Alien jazz hands..

[SamTarly]

scary and no voilence whatsoever, take note hollywood

[paulman34340]

@SamTarly Yep, Sadly a large amount of people now a days are like the Romen people of the gladiator days, wanting very bloody very grusome deaths over being scared, The Less is More method used in the main three Alien movies was and still is the best method of installing fear, as I prefer being scared and sent into a panic over turning my head to not look at gruesome deaths (If I wanted that I'd look at the Death montages of Dead Space 1 and 2 which are good homages to this series)

[mdtwiztid]

@SamTarly lol except for his death

[aspyr135]

4:16

PEEKABO!!

[ultimateman45]

That's how you play hide and seek extreme style

[ultimateman45]

All the Alien wanted was a hug lol

[coffeetea720]

The Alien is like, "I want hugs."

[larzarus1234]

Move down = Towards the Alien

Great advice

[spooksmagee]

scariest scene in the film, no contest

[WeylandYutaniInc91]

@spooksmagee I know I love this scene, it's my favorite part in the movie.

[Firgasz]

4:14 you can see the alien before dallas turns around.

[freqeist]

@Firgasz where else would it be?

[Firgasz]

@freqeist

nowhere, but it would be more scary if you can see the alien only at the moment when it turns to attack dallas, and not seconds before, so you couldn´t say oh, yeah there it is... I have seen it. Its so predictable.

[Firgasz]

@freqeist

ok, If you see the movie the first time you don´t have the time to recognize that the alien is behind him You get shocked anyway. Maybe its, because i know that its there.

[freqeist]

@Firgasz fair enough

[Firgasz]

whats that at 3:22?

[bringbackthemusic]

@Firgasz I think that substance is due to the aliens transformation. So when the alien grew and shed its skin it would have produced some type of secretion? Just a guess!

[Firgasz]

@bringbackthemusic

there are so much unsolved questions about "the alien". Where is it coming from, whats about the Space Jockey.

What a luck for James Cameron that Ridley Scott cut the Scene with Dallas and Ripley where she founds him in this "alien-cocoon", cause in aliens they introduce the alien-queen who only can produce eggs.

[WeylandYutaniInc91]

@Firgasz We'll probably find out in Prometheus, if you don't know what that is, that's the Alien spin-off prequel which will tell what the Space Jockey was and where did the Aliens come from. Only thing is, I don't think it will involve Aliens.

[357223308]

@bringbackthemusic

Yeah... "But secreted from what?"

[marvinw70809]

@bringbackthemusic  its slime from the alien's jaws

[Firgasz]

@bringbackthemusic

I think that pervert alien jerked off. xD^^

[WildBill6942]

@Firgasz -- it's harmless, it's just pre-cum.

[hiphoplegend1]

@Firgasz the alien came all over the damn floor...lol

[MercuryMorrison1]

Oh god its moving right towards you! Get out of there!...Some scary ass shit right there.

[Context81]

love the sound of those doors



[Rbatty2]

Love this scene, been lucky to see on the big screen several times, and in the dark boy its something hee hee. Scary stuff, thanks for posting! :0

[bringbackthemusic]

@Rbatty2 One of the all time best. Had to upload this one, it wasnt on Youtube! (in English)

[Rbatty2]

@bringbackthemusic Oh it wasn't, well now it is, thanks.

[Caesarslegion1]

funny-i was looking for this yesterday and all of a sudden...

[bringbackthemusic]

@Caesarslegion1 spooky - cue Twilight Zone music

[Caesarslegion1]

what is the song at 1:52?

[KaitainCPS]

@Caesarslegion1

It's actually from Goldsmith's earlier score to the movie "Freud". Scott and his editor Terry Rawlings had used it as a temp track while editing the scene, and ended up liking it more than the cue Goldsmith actually wrote for this scene in "Alien". After seeking permission to use it, they decided to keep it in the final movie.

[Caesarslegion1]

@KaitainCPS Thanks-how do you know that?

[KaitainCPS]

@Caesarslegion1

You have to know these things when you're a king.

[KaitainCPS]

@Caesarslegion1

Actually I remember reading it in an article somewhere, and Scott and/or Rawlings talk about in on the DVD commentary to the 2003 version (the one with some scenes recut and restored).