After reading the comments you find not every alien fan has the same idea of the life cycle. Personally i would like to see Alien w/ all deleted scenes carefully placed back in. As for the life cycle i'd say being too far fetched is a ridiculous notion. Look at the nest spreading, it appears to be morphing the ships metal structure to suit the alien, like the Biometal theory. It must use the acid to break down materials into a liquid state to ingest and excrete for many purposes.
... And now every fallen friendly can add to their numbers twice. Even killing yourself might serve as fodder for the enemy. The mother conflict is great. I get it. But this was just another unrealzed direction that if the only reason for the cut was pace, its a loss. Ripley goes looking for the cat before Lambert and Parker die. This scene would have fit nicely there.
@dorndaniel. True, but to analyze this scene properly consider: its 1979, you just left the theatre, you still have questions about the alien ship, the purpose of the egg room, the creature that was growing into the chair?There was no sequel planned, consider only what youd have to work with. An enemy where every creature is capable of recreating the whole is much scarier than just find the queen and its over. Commentary also said this creature was regenerating limbs. They mature insanely fast,
..st. As opposed to the unlikeliness of Ripley being instictively implanted with a queen embyo at the beginning "Alien 3", by eggs no one brought on board in part 2. That would have been on the shuttle deck not the cryo deck, levels above..
@anygame But without it, you wouldnt have the conflict of mothers in the sequel. Which brings us to the point of the differences between the alien designs, and how they had to be different because of the different genres the movies are set in. Aliens was essentially a vietnam war movie. You cant have that with an seemingly invincible antagonist. There had to be a change, which still fit the original theatrical cut of Alien, to make Aliens work
This scene would have revealed the final process of the Alien life-cycle. Where eggs came from? Recycling host to make more eggs would have made the odds of winning insurmountable. In the end, if the Alien had gone back and collected Parker and Lambert, and eventually caught Ripley there would have been 5 new eggs. A much more efficient way of spreding than hoping the next facehugger would hold a queen embryo. One facehugger could infect an entire planet. Produce a Xeno and an egg from every ho
@44excalibur Granted. I like and can appreciate the queen idea. But it was kinda familar and predictable. Of coarse we had no idea what form she would take and the model is awesome but, I like to be challanged in my scifi. Do different things, show different possibilites. Things like warp engines and FTL travel were explored long before they had explainations. This was a different life cycle using victoms as host and vessels.
The space jockey thing was not meant to be that relivant. Giger was just infatuated with creating biomechanical craft/race drawnings. So it was included. Each alien would self-procreate hence the perfect lifeform reference. Perhaps by means of the original stinger like tail it used on Bret not Lambert, and resign, it mutated biological dna into eggs.
Spolier alert. Ok heres whats going on. Forget human reporduction as we know it. The whole queen thing was an afterthought for the second movie. What was originally intended was Ripley finds Dallas who is in fact becoming an egg. Brett is a failed attempt as he was dead before the process began. Hence the maggots.
@anygame I wouldn't call the Alien queen an "afterthought." James Cameron came up with a perfectly logical life cycle for the Alien based on Earth insect colonies, as well as taking inspiration from Robert Heinlein's novel 'Starship Troopers." Giger himself said he was impressed by the queen design that Cameron and Winston had created. Cameron already had the idea in mind for a screenplay he wrote called 'Mother' which took place on a space station, and adapted it for 'Aliens.'
Made even more poignant because the back-stories for the characters (given to the actors by Scott but not made available publicly) almost certainly had Ripley and Dallas as having being occasional/on-and-off lovers.
After watching this, my theory is that : a drone can only lay 1 facehugger embryo during his life cycle. He lays it inside a resine egg carcass which then is filled with a lifeform and all wraped up with the resine stuff. That way the facehugger slowly feeds of the lifeform and finally turns into a queen egg. To sum it up, queens lay plenty of drone eggs, and each drone can produce 1 queen egg.
@shinso5 Interesting guess...could have been possible. I always thought that it would just have been acting out of instinct (cocooning for the facehuggers). Plus it needs to keep a food supply for itself. If it killed and ate everyone right away it would likely starve or need to hibernate or something. I guess it's all moot anyway considering this scene was deleted and thusly non-canon. Pity though, it was an interesting scene that answered what happened to the missing crew.
heres the thing they have not thought of queens yet and the reason the alien in this films looks different to the rest of the films is that the alien design and idea was H.R Giger's but he refused to do alienS so the alien apperence was changed so the producers could avoi8d copyright that giger had on his idea, plus this deleted scene is fro the directers cut the directer explains that there eggs and not cocoons
If you look at the footage the construct that is surrounding Brett may resemble an egg, but it dosen't look like the eggs from the beginning of the movie. I would guess that the Xeno is cocooning it's food. The cocoons possibly filled with digestive acids to break down the corpse (hence the maggots). Dallas (having seen the process), doesn't desire to be next!!
What i would wish to see is an alien in the process of cocooning, how do they excrete the material.. where are those glands? does it need to eat first to create the material? Does the alien produce it in the same manner that spiders make webs?
@Mikanojo Odds are the cacoonig comes from the slime they seem to secreet. It hardens into the hive stuff, that's why seems completely liquid as it comes off them but much thicked when you run into later.
i do not see a 'transformation into an egg'. i see two people who have been nearly completely covered in the excretion of the alien.. which oddly they have NEVER shown in any of the movies.. and if you look closely you see the eggs have been laid on them. The idea of a queen would come from science as well, a drone can become a queen when conditions require it. Or more often, as with hornets, bees, ants.. they produce a different food for the grub that causes the female to become a queen.
they should have kept this scene, i just dont like the idea of a queen it just makes the aliens seem like insects rather than something completely alien and bizzare.
@AUBRI92 There's no reason it can't do both. The alien in the first movie was different than the others anyway. This might be what happens when there isn't a queen.
But yeah, I like to see the referrence to the transformation as well. Since the Alien evolved from mysterious dark horror into highly intelligent killing monster hive insectoid they might solve this riddle as well. If I remember correctly the book describes different types of Aliens where 1 type produces an egg every 24 hours but is not a queen. This is similar to insect hives where a missing hive control is built by biochemicals and thus induced mutations.
I like the fact this scene didn't make it into the movie since the Alien remains a mysterious killer only your darkest nightmare could ever unleash. The combination of pure biological existing creatures combined with highest fears gives the soul to the creature. Like the android stated: a perfect being.
The colony aspect though came with Aliens and reduced it to the biological procreation. Because if you can categorize it you can kill it.
I feel this scene should of been kept in. I have read alot of the comments regarding the canon of the lifecycle but I think the best explanation is the fact that it was a solitary soldier xenomorph without a queen... It has the ability to sedate its victims and convert them into queen/soldier eggs. The entire program of the xeno species is to recreated by any means necessary.
@23v0lv32 Or not. I prefer a far simpler explanation; the Alien is a sterile atificial creation, sent to clean up a planet from it's organic sentient beings.
I think it was a good call to delete this scene. It was much more effective to see the alien reaching out for Dallas and then showing his empty gun.....this only slowed down the action.
Im torn between deciding on whether or not this scene should've been deleted: one one hand, it's really fucking creepy and would've added to the horror, but on the other it really didnt fit with the tempo of the film... hmm...
4 any that are confused the alien is aging rapidly and will die soon and it is meant to become more and more transparent to show that but they didnt have the special effects anyway because its going to die soon it has the strong urge to reproduce and it is not cocooning victims so a facehugger can attach to them but THE PEOPLE ARE BEING TURNED INTO EGGS. Shame they origanaly cut this scene cause it really explained the story.
P.S. H.r.Giger is a legend look him up shame he was ripped off
If you try to make sense of this scene (canon entirety) all I can say is that the xenomorph was evolving into a queen and was cocooning her victims for growth of more xenos.
Alien in part found influence for the life cycle within nature - chiefly Ridley viewed Oxford Scientific Films about the wasp that uses a living host - sadly this has been re-interpreted in sequels as the alien being tantamount to an insect with a hive and queen. It might have been better to assume less obvious aspects of the insect world, eg, stick insects which are all female and can reproduce without mating. The egg morphing fits the tone of Alien perfectly and still echoes nature.
The eggs weren't there, the alien did something to Brett and Dallas to transform them into eggs. But this scenario was never explored because the scenes were, as you see, deleted.
@MLGJeRiCHo In the book she tries to free him and take him to the autodoc, but she can't. I think he is a little more lucid in the book too and can explain what has happened to him. In the film the suggestion remains that both he and Brett are being used as facehugger incubators, Brett is dead and as an earlier victim the egg-like cocoon that has formed around him is more advanced. In the book Dallas says he can feel the creature (facehugger) feeding of of him, and begs Ripley to kill him.
This is my favorite rendition of an alien hive. It just seems so gross and horrifying compared to the other ones. And just seeing how Brett is actually being turned INTO an alien egg is so disturbing and interesting compared to the cliche alien queen
@Epikkfailyurr Yeah, the whole space bug thing is so old and overused, even back in the 1980s. I really wish they'd stuck with Ridley Scott's original creature. Instead of the queen, Cameron could have made that big alien a result from the space jockey instead.
First time I saw the "director's cut" version of "Alien" was back in 1994 on laserdisc(but saw original theatre version on vhs video back in '86 when I was in 7th grade).
i have question can someone answer me ... the queen from aliens came from the spacejockey...or it was already on another place because on the movie aliens they dont explain that .when ripley meets her she was staying under the nuclear reactor ........and something else who lays all those eggs on the spacejockey derelict or ship
as the concept is more far fetched for hosts to be mutated into eggs, It does infact fill a large void in the lifecycle. Due to the nature of the species (provide for the queen to prevent extinction) there must actually be a queen. This clip fills that gap by explaining how the species would survive/ multiply in the event that there is no present queen/eggs. I've been a Die hard Alien fan since 4 years old on the date and after viewing this scene my understanding of alien has actually improved.
@Paperhouse81 I'm not sure because in this deleted scene it doesn't seem the xenomorphs are 'cocooning' humans to use them as hosts for their embryos. Maybe they cocoon them alive to preserve them until a queen arrives and lays the eggs in that place, not sure.
"bigfish0886" says this was an altern life cycle for the xenomorphs, a process in which humans are mutated into one of them.
@BlackHoleSun1921 Evidently more painful, but faster death. Still, I don't fully understand why exactly is he suffering since he didn't sustain injury because the xenomorphs wanted to keep him alive to mutate him into one of them, I don't know, maybe the process is painful.
@harnois75 Thought embryonic facehuggers aren't fed in anyway, they don't need that because they're only layed by the xenomorph queen and they wait to be hatched until a host is detected, they don't need to feed on anyone's gut, only the xenomorph embryo layed inside the host by the facehugger is the one that feeds off IN THE STOMACH, not the gut and not the facehugger.
@kaiyno There is no queen in the life cycle in A L I E N. That was invented 7 years later. The original alien could perpetuate it's life cycle through it's victims, that was the truly 'alien' idea.
@kaiyno It's not explained. It's probably deliberately ambiguous. If you look at A L I E N as the meeting of arthouse film and hollywood suspense it's not too surprising that things are left up to individual interpretation or speculation. Ridley's prequel Prometheus might possibly explain more about the origins of the alien. But expect some new unanswered questions too.
@harnois75 the more i think about prometheus the more it seems the movie is bascially surrounded by the idea or what this deleted scene was suppose to show. i saw the trailer for prometheus and im starting to think the only reason the aliens were able to do this was b/c of something the humans did in prometheus. idk when asking a question you get 100 more questions for prometheus.
they did put this in to the extended version of the film because this Xeno in this movie happens to be a Drone and happens to have an interesting skill, it can use dead or near dead bodies and use them to create eggs encase no queen exist. also after really long wile the Drone will preform a hormone change and molt into a Queen takes less time then a Warrior transformation, Drones are male have smooth head will molt to Queen. Warriors have ridges Which are female and go to Praetorian to Queen
This really is a horrible fate. And it seems Bret, too, is being kept alive in there. Good grief. This scene is a classic 'tell' scene where the audience finds out what's really going on. I think one of this film's strong points was the element of mystery and missing pieces. Showing too much is always a mistake, anyway. Let the audience wonder. It's better that way. Same with his Blade Runner. He should never have 'revealed' Deckard's 'mystery'.
@humbleradio He (Ridley Scott) didn't reveal it though, he gave his opinion on Deckard, others involved in the film took the opposite view. Therefore all that's happened is that the argument has raged and people get passionate about it whether or not Deckard is a replicant. But then the best films are ambiguous and are left open to interpretation. Ridley's views and those of the screenwriters only help to further the debate - a good thing IMHO.
@harnois75 I wish you were right. But it's Rid's film so as director he has final say. And he did say 'Deck is a replicant'. In my opinion, it's a mistake. Because then it's a story about machines. Whereas, if Deck is human, it's about a human taught about love and compassion by a machine. That's profound. The former is just robots in love. I choose to ignore Rid's statement and disregard all cuts but the original. Film is a group effort - even producers count. (that means i like the VO) ;)
Personally, I think if they had put this in between Ripley finding Parker and Lambert, and the self destruct, it would have worked just fine, and given the activation of the self-destruct even more power. Its not just about killing one Alien, its about stopping something that could wipe out everyone on Earth.
Giger was very dissapointed this didn't make it into the movie. I absolutely agree, this is truly imaginative and horrible. Scott loved it too, he said as a director you sometimes just have to cut of your little finger to make it work.
The problem was it slowed down her escape from the Nostromo. I wish they could have found a way to have this occur before the countdown, then there would be no problem
I still don't see how Alien lost best art direction to All that Jazz.I wanted to be on the Nostromo,walk,or run through those endless corridors.Same way i felt with Star Wars.Love those sets
Both versions of the Alien life cycle can co-exist. I happen to think they're both interesting. There was several old Dark Horse comics, sci fi, and fan sites devoted to the Alien and its biology, and each supplied different theories into how the Aliens could survive without a Queen or colony. One of the theories is this deleted scene (turning humans into eggs) and another was that a drone could recocoon itself and morph into a Queen if none were present. Cool stuff.
@spockmcqueen I agree. It's horrific, yet, it slows down and changes tempo like you said. If it could've been inserted earlier it would ruin the mystery, and later, slow down the suspense. so really nowhere to put it.
@krankenshaft >Yeah, I remember begging my uncle, when I was 10, to let me watch this movie one night when I stayed over at his house... by the time the chestburster scene came up, I was begging him to shut it OFF! :) He made me watch it though, bc I gave him so much crap to see it... now it's one of my favorite movies ever. Funny, huh?
There are many hints in the film that the alien is a saprobiont--i.e., it uses a highly acidic digestive fluid to dissolve its prey and then drinks it in. I believe Brett is here partially digested, partially consumed, dissolved, and is packed in a purse and encased in a clear preservative envelope for the meantime. This is clearly the creature's "home base" and it makes sense that it both stores its food and attempts replication here.
There appears to be multiple uses for the 'hosts' in this film. Kane is used as an incubation chamber for the roaming bipedal stage of the organism. I believe Dallas is also being so used here, with the opened egg glued to him, and the facehugger having dropped off. Bret is harder to interpret here. I believe he is a larder for the roamer. The purse he is tucked in doesn't actually look like the eggs--he is not being consumed here, he is being stored.
This is kind of a cool concept. Ive always thought of them as a bio-mechanical weapon rather than just another creature that just wanted a meal or to use people as hosts. The idea of degrading a human to pure organic building material for the next monster or "egg" is indeed bazaar and fitting of a plan of eradication.
This is ALIEN's most talked about deleted scene because it provides an otherwise undisclosed insight into the life cycle of the creature. And i can guess what this "life cycle" does:
In the absence of the alien queen, the alien makes a cocoon with the prey, so he can eat it latter (2:21 shows brett's head with a bite and maggots in it because of the discomposition), the body takes part of the nest so the corpses are not just lying there, like the space jockey fossilized in the alien ship.
@fizetr the 'bite' you refer to is what he sustains from the initial attack by the alien in the cavernous 'chains and rain' scene when he's looking for Jones the cat, not necessarily from the alien nibbling later on.
@Lonew0lf37: I got the impression that both were turning into eggs. You have to remember that Brett was taken before Dallas so there was further along in the "life cycle".
This is about a hundred times better than what they did in Aliens. Something terrifying and completely "alien", rather than just mimicking eusocial insects with the queen concept
I have the directors cut of this movie and scene this clip and couldn't figure out why Dallas wanted to die and why they cut it. And after reading some comments here I did not realize they where turning into eggs.
Actually this scene was explained by cameron as one solitary alien has the ability to "sting" a person and plant an egg in them that will eventually turn him into a queen baring facehugger egg. Thats why Dallas was cocooned, he was to be the host for the new queen. This was how one Facehugger turned the entire Acheron colony. A similar scene was to be in Alien 3 but was cut b/c Fincher thought people wld be confused b/c this scene was only included in the special edition laser disc. What a pity.
@caribidis Yes, Acheron was actually the name of the planet that Hadly's Hope (the colony) resident's gave for LV-426. If you recall in the ALIENS sp ed, only one facehugger came into the colony. That resulting alien "stung" a host and made him into an egg w/a queen in it. As that queen grew she built a small army of warrior aliens. They then built her throne and started finding hosts and the nest was built around her. That's how the colony became infested, inspired by this scene in ALIEN.
@DylanPenev First let me correct one part, Cameron didn't explain this scene, it was actually explained by Ridley Scott and Giger in his book "Giger's Alien" and in special commentary on the Laser Disc Special Edition where the scene was first included. I'm not sure if those comments made it into the DVD Quadrilogy or the Blue Ray Editions. Acheron was given as LV-426's name in ALIENS Official Movie Guide, published in the 80s, which I own all these and tons of other stuff. I'm a hardcore fan.
It was a good thing that this scene was cut from the original. The audience would not have understood that the two men were being turned into eggs. And the scene is illogical too because Ripley has initiated the auto-destruct and she should be getting the hell out of there, and not standing around. Also, Dallas' suffering would have been brought to end more swiftly and painlessly in just a few minutes' time when the ship's engines go nuclear and blow-up
I always thought they were just being just being "cocooned" just like newt in the sequel, even though Ripley rescued her. Seems a bit pointless that the Alien would do it in this film however since there aren't any face huggers to lay eggs in them. I guess the Alien was just doing it instinctively. That's how I always saw it anyway.
@BloodOfRayne its before they had invented the whole lifecycle concept..in the original idea the Alien could just turn a person into an egg/facehugger..thats really fucking wierd isnt it?
@BloodOfRayne yeah well, I guess they just figured it bettter not to explain much about the alien, just leave you wondering about it..I saw it as a kid when the movie first came out..it fucking sacred the living shit out of me.. I was like 10 at the time..I just couldnt handle it, it blew my fucking mind..then I sat around for months wondering about what this alien actually was and how it actually looked because they never really showed it long enough for you to get a clear idea of how it looked
@Gloomshadow1 a lot of you keep mentioning that, but aren't providing any sources. Others are theorizing and it actually sounds better than parroting what the film people supposedly said. If it's from a book, then is it the actual Alien book series, or just some stand-alone novelization of the film? - cuz I've read at least several of the novel series, and not only does it not mention this 'original' idea of transforming into eggs, but there is no Ripley, either.
H.R. Giger made a drawing of the Alien's life cycle in which it hinted that it started with an egg and came full circle with a host being transformed into new eggs. Also it is clear Brett is slowly becoming an egg himself in the deleted scene in which Ripley discovers him. Ridley Scott decided to scrap that scene and let the whole life cycle of the Alien remain a mystery, which makes it scarier for the audience. In one early script Ash explained that it had a short life.
@TheLittleDevil I agree, this is very scary. Hopefull Ridley Scott's new prequel will touch on this subject. Imo they should have kept this scene in the original movie.
@danielqmul I would love it if he did that. Undo all his wannabe predecessors did to fuck up the series. Undo the queen. I'm sure that would piss off that douche, cameron.
If you have the directors cut you'll see this scene. It makes the movie much scarier. Also the Alien Anthology gives you the choice to watch the regular version or directors cut. I like the directors cut because of this scene and when the alien smacks the cat. Makes the monster more sadistic. For some reason I'd be more scared to be confronted by the Alien drone from this movie than the Queen in the sequel.
@TheLittleDevil i agree, very disturbing, still, theres nothing to say that when a drone is separated from the hive and no queen is present, that this isnt how they start a new colony? I dunno, one of those eggs could give us a royal facehugger? this is a brillant concept in this video, terrifying
@TheLittleDevil Cameron used this as an excuse for cloning. I think the idea was that the alien would capture people and turn them into eggs which in turn, turn into face huggers... which Cameron said he thought ridiculous
wow, there are two different takes of this scene! they added one of them to the director's cut, but this is even an alternate take than that one. very horrifying! thanks for uploading!
One of the most powerful scenes of the movie. I think they took it out because it lacked sense as for the alien life cycle but I think that it takes some of the momentum and scene logic away when you watch the movie without it.
Remember this movie came out long before the Life cycle in Aliens was established. If this scene hadnt been deleted Im sure the life cycle in the rest of the franchise would have followed suit.
@bigfish0886 - This is still canon if you wish it. AvP on Atari Jaguar actually have you cocooning people like that. As far as I'm concerned, if there is no available Queen and the current active Xenomorph doesn't morph, then this is what will happen.
100xbetter than Cameron's queen idea. This is sickening and original.
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@eirikwegga Agreed. This idea works better for horror. But Cameron's was more of an action movie.
TheSnowdog21121 2 days ago
This should have been in the movie, its a great scene and tells a lot about the alien..
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After reading the comments you find not every alien fan has the same idea of the life cycle. Personally i would like to see Alien w/ all deleted scenes carefully placed back in. As for the life cycle i'd say being too far fetched is a ridiculous notion. Look at the nest spreading, it appears to be morphing the ships metal structure to suit the alien, like the Biometal theory. It must use the acid to break down materials into a liquid state to ingest and excrete for many purposes.
Simwillb 1 week ago
how did she recognized brett? he was barely visible
groveback1 2 weeks ago in playlist Alien - Deleted scene
i actually find this more disturbing than the queen life cycle
Itachi21x 3 weeks ago
I think it was pretty stupid to go back for the cat a human life means more than an animals life I mean come on Parker and Lambert could have lived
baaadbaadblacksheep 3 weeks ago
... And now every fallen friendly can add to their numbers twice. Even killing yourself might serve as fodder for the enemy. The mother conflict is great. I get it. But this was just another unrealzed direction that if the only reason for the cut was pace, its a loss. Ripley goes looking for the cat before Lambert and Parker die. This scene would have fit nicely there.
anygame 1 month ago
@dorndaniel. True, but to analyze this scene properly consider: its 1979, you just left the theatre, you still have questions about the alien ship, the purpose of the egg room, the creature that was growing into the chair?There was no sequel planned, consider only what youd have to work with. An enemy where every creature is capable of recreating the whole is much scarier than just find the queen and its over. Commentary also said this creature was regenerating limbs. They mature insanely fast,
anygame 1 month ago
..st. As opposed to the unlikeliness of Ripley being instictively implanted with a queen embyo at the beginning "Alien 3", by eggs no one brought on board in part 2. That would have been on the shuttle deck not the cryo deck, levels above..
anygame 1 month ago
@anygame But without it, you wouldnt have the conflict of mothers in the sequel. Which brings us to the point of the differences between the alien designs, and how they had to be different because of the different genres the movies are set in. Aliens was essentially a vietnam war movie. You cant have that with an seemingly invincible antagonist. There had to be a change, which still fit the original theatrical cut of Alien, to make Aliens work
DornDaniel 1 month ago
@DornDaniel Aliens was mostly a remake of "Them" just like Titanic was a remake of the 1950s movie.
OroborusFMA 3 weeks ago
This scene would have revealed the final process of the Alien life-cycle. Where eggs came from? Recycling host to make more eggs would have made the odds of winning insurmountable. In the end, if the Alien had gone back and collected Parker and Lambert, and eventually caught Ripley there would have been 5 new eggs. A much more efficient way of spreding than hoping the next facehugger would hold a queen embryo. One facehugger could infect an entire planet. Produce a Xeno and an egg from every ho
anygame 1 month ago
@44excalibur Granted. I like and can appreciate the queen idea. But it was kinda familar and predictable. Of coarse we had no idea what form she would take and the model is awesome but, I like to be challanged in my scifi. Do different things, show different possibilites. Things like warp engines and FTL travel were explored long before they had explainations. This was a different life cycle using victoms as host and vessels.
anygame 1 month ago
why does Bret look like hes in a facehugger egg case? :P
Taliesin109 1 month ago
@Taliesin109 Because Brett IS in a facehugger egg case.
DarthTwoddle 1 month ago
The space jockey thing was not meant to be that relivant. Giger was just infatuated with creating biomechanical craft/race drawnings. So it was included. Each alien would self-procreate hence the perfect lifeform reference. Perhaps by means of the original stinger like tail it used on Bret not Lambert, and resign, it mutated biological dna into eggs.
anygame 1 month ago
Spolier alert. Ok heres whats going on. Forget human reporduction as we know it. The whole queen thing was an afterthought for the second movie. What was originally intended was Ripley finds Dallas who is in fact becoming an egg. Brett is a failed attempt as he was dead before the process began. Hence the maggots.
anygame 1 month ago
@anygame I wouldn't call the Alien queen an "afterthought." James Cameron came up with a perfectly logical life cycle for the Alien based on Earth insect colonies, as well as taking inspiration from Robert Heinlein's novel 'Starship Troopers." Giger himself said he was impressed by the queen design that Cameron and Winston had created. Cameron already had the idea in mind for a screenplay he wrote called 'Mother' which took place on a space station, and adapted it for 'Aliens.'
44excalibur 1 month ago
Sarah Palin is a modern day Ripley
impassable 1 month ago
@impassable Nah Ripley probably read newspapers occasionally...
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mrHellkid1 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
@Haschkatt97 read past comments its because the people r being turned into eggs
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Made even more poignant because the back-stories for the characters (given to the actors by Scott but not made available publicly) almost certainly had Ripley and Dallas as having being occasional/on-and-off lovers.
krakenwave 1 month ago
After watching this, my theory is that : a drone can only lay 1 facehugger embryo during his life cycle. He lays it inside a resine egg carcass which then is filled with a lifeform and all wraped up with the resine stuff. That way the facehugger slowly feeds of the lifeform and finally turns into a queen egg. To sum it up, queens lay plenty of drone eggs, and each drone can produce 1 queen egg.
shinso5 1 month ago
@shinso5 Interesting guess...could have been possible. I always thought that it would just have been acting out of instinct (cocooning for the facehuggers). Plus it needs to keep a food supply for itself. If it killed and ate everyone right away it would likely starve or need to hibernate or something. I guess it's all moot anyway considering this scene was deleted and thusly non-canon. Pity though, it was an interesting scene that answered what happened to the missing crew.
roadkillz78 1 month ago
Ok, when he said "kill me" I think he meant shoot me in the head so I can die fast and without pain, not burn me alive!
ddpresearch07 2 months ago 61
@ddpresearch07 He's toast!
CombatRocks 1 month ago
@ddpresearch07 When tyhe only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.
1kittin 3 weeks ago
@ddpresearch07 i lolled :D
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@ddpresearch07 i lolled :D
SuperTowlie1 2 weeks ago
@ddpresearch07 lol
mrprodigy83 1 week ago
@ddpresearch07 Ehm... no guns on the ship.
GMLSX 5 days ago
u can clearly see at 2:18 its an egg and that was human still has head
mrHellkid1 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
heres the thing they have not thought of queens yet and the reason the alien in this films looks different to the rest of the films is that the alien design and idea was H.R Giger's but he refused to do alienS so the alien apperence was changed so the producers could avoi8d copyright that giger had on his idea, plus this deleted scene is fro the directers cut the directer explains that there eggs and not cocoons
mrHellkid1 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
If you look at the footage the construct that is surrounding Brett may resemble an egg, but it dosen't look like the eggs from the beginning of the movie. I would guess that the Xeno is cocooning it's food. The cocoons possibly filled with digestive acids to break down the corpse (hence the maggots). Dallas (having seen the process), doesn't desire to be next!!
giantguy1321 2 months ago
What i would wish to see is an alien in the process of cocooning, how do they excrete the material.. where are those glands? does it need to eat first to create the material? Does the alien produce it in the same manner that spiders make webs?
Mikanojo 2 months ago
@Mikanojo Odds are the cacoonig comes from the slime they seem to secreet. It hardens into the hive stuff, that's why seems completely liquid as it comes off them but much thicked when you run into later.
timemonkey 2 months ago
i do not see a 'transformation into an egg'. i see two people who have been nearly completely covered in the excretion of the alien.. which oddly they have NEVER shown in any of the movies.. and if you look closely you see the eggs have been laid on them. The idea of a queen would come from science as well, a drone can become a queen when conditions require it. Or more often, as with hornets, bees, ants.. they produce a different food for the grub that causes the female to become a queen.
Mikanojo 2 months ago
they should have kept this scene, i just dont like the idea of a queen it just makes the aliens seem like insects rather than something completely alien and bizzare.
AUBRI92 2 months ago
@AUBRI92 There's no reason it can't do both. The alien in the first movie was different than the others anyway. This might be what happens when there isn't a queen.
timemonkey 2 months ago
@timemonkey I have to completely agree. I see no reason why a dual life cycle isn't possible.
leptonsoup337 2 months ago
Was this compressed to fit on a floppy disk or something?
PutItAway101 2 months ago
Well, what a turn of events... Very interesting to see a different idea for the alien eggs, much more original.
I mean, I love the alien queen in aliens, but this is so fresh, awesome.
LudeMoovie 2 months ago
But yeah, I like to see the referrence to the transformation as well. Since the Alien evolved from mysterious dark horror into highly intelligent killing monster hive insectoid they might solve this riddle as well. If I remember correctly the book describes different types of Aliens where 1 type produces an egg every 24 hours but is not a queen. This is similar to insect hives where a missing hive control is built by biochemicals and thus induced mutations.
darigaaz90 2 months ago
I like the fact this scene didn't make it into the movie since the Alien remains a mysterious killer only your darkest nightmare could ever unleash. The combination of pure biological existing creatures combined with highest fears gives the soul to the creature. Like the android stated: a perfect being.
The colony aspect though came with Aliens and reduced it to the biological procreation. Because if you can categorize it you can kill it.
darigaaz90 2 months ago
I feel this scene should of been kept in. I have read alot of the comments regarding the canon of the lifecycle but I think the best explanation is the fact that it was a solitary soldier xenomorph without a queen... It has the ability to sedate its victims and convert them into queen/soldier eggs. The entire program of the xeno species is to recreated by any means necessary.
23v0lv32 3 months ago
@23v0lv32 Or not. I prefer a far simpler explanation; the Alien is a sterile atificial creation, sent to clean up a planet from it's organic sentient beings.
sqccccccccc 2 months ago
Don't waste flamethrower fuel, the ship is going to explode in a few minutes.
MorliHolect 3 months ago
I think it was a good call to delete this scene. It was much more effective to see the alien reaching out for Dallas and then showing his empty gun.....this only slowed down the action.
Escul1960 3 months ago
Well I'm pretty sure I would have asked her to burn me as well I mean what a horrid way to die atleast then I can die quicker
TheTacko70 3 months ago
Whether or not this should have been in the movie I wish the sequels stuck with it.
eirikwegga 3 months ago in playlist Film
A very haunting scene...
BEF40 3 months ago
I think it was best left out. Not actually seeing what happened to Dallas added to the movie overall..
rosannamarie97 3 months ago
Im torn between deciding on whether or not this scene should've been deleted: one one hand, it's really fucking creepy and would've added to the horror, but on the other it really didnt fit with the tempo of the film... hmm...
TaurusType 3 months ago
4 any that are confused the alien is aging rapidly and will die soon and it is meant to become more and more transparent to show that but they didnt have the special effects anyway because its going to die soon it has the strong urge to reproduce and it is not cocooning victims so a facehugger can attach to them but THE PEOPLE ARE BEING TURNED INTO EGGS. Shame they origanaly cut this scene cause it really explained the story.
P.S. H.r.Giger is a legend look him up shame he was ripped off
mrHellkid1 4 months ago
If you try to make sense of this scene (canon entirety) all I can say is that the xenomorph was evolving into a queen and was cocooning her victims for growth of more xenos.
xIegionx 4 months ago
this isnt a deleted scene...oh...wait i watched the directors cut o.0
mrman117ify 4 months ago
Alien in part found influence for the life cycle within nature - chiefly Ridley viewed Oxford Scientific Films about the wasp that uses a living host - sadly this has been re-interpreted in sequels as the alien being tantamount to an insect with a hive and queen. It might have been better to assume less obvious aspects of the insect world, eg, stick insects which are all female and can reproduce without mating. The egg morphing fits the tone of Alien perfectly and still echoes nature.
harnois75 4 months ago
One question... how did the eggs get there if there was no queen on that ship to lay them???
Boacuda 4 months ago
@Boacuda
The eggs weren't there, the alien did something to Brett and Dallas to transform them into eggs. But this scenario was never explored because the scenes were, as you see, deleted.
ballebanan 4 months ago
@ballebanan Thanx for the creepy solution to my question LOL :)
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@MLGJeRiCHo In the book she tries to free him and take him to the autodoc, but she can't. I think he is a little more lucid in the book too and can explain what has happened to him. In the film the suggestion remains that both he and Brett are being used as facehugger incubators, Brett is dead and as an earlier victim the egg-like cocoon that has formed around him is more advanced. In the book Dallas says he can feel the creature (facehugger) feeding of of him, and begs Ripley to kill him.
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harnois75 5 months ago
@Paperhouse81 since 1978 when the Alien novelisation came out.
harnois75 5 months ago
Why was this deleted? its major to the story!
spikew10 5 months ago
This is my favorite rendition of an alien hive. It just seems so gross and horrifying compared to the other ones. And just seeing how Brett is actually being turned INTO an alien egg is so disturbing and interesting compared to the cliche alien queen
Epikkfailyurr 5 months ago 9
@Epikkfailyurr Yeah, the whole space bug thing is so old and overused, even back in the 1980s. I really wish they'd stuck with Ridley Scott's original creature. Instead of the queen, Cameron could have made that big alien a result from the space jockey instead.
BlueIndividual 2 months ago
First time I saw the "director's cut" version of "Alien" was back in 1994 on laserdisc(but saw original theatre version on vhs video back in '86 when I was in 7th grade).
TheXtro101 6 months ago
Ripley to Dallas
"This is why we follow quarantine procedure.."
"KEEEEL MEHH!"
cHeEzMaN1 6 months ago 38
@cHeEzMaN1 YEAHHHH
caribidis 6 months ago
i have question can someone answer me ... the queen from aliens came from the spacejockey...or it was already on another place because on the movie aliens they dont explain that .when ripley meets her she was staying under the nuclear reactor ........and something else who lays all those eggs on the spacejockey derelict or ship
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what happened to them?
MLGJeRiCHo 6 months ago
as the concept is more far fetched for hosts to be mutated into eggs, It does infact fill a large void in the lifecycle. Due to the nature of the species (provide for the queen to prevent extinction) there must actually be a queen. This clip fills that gap by explaining how the species would survive/ multiply in the event that there is no present queen/eggs. I've been a Die hard Alien fan since 4 years old on the date and after viewing this scene my understanding of alien has actually improved.
TyNordstrom 6 months ago
@Paperhouse81 hhmmmmmm...
Paperhouse81 6 months ago
@Paperhouse81 I'm not sure because in this deleted scene it doesn't seem the xenomorphs are 'cocooning' humans to use them as hosts for their embryos. Maybe they cocoon them alive to preserve them until a queen arrives and lays the eggs in that place, not sure.
"bigfish0886" says this was an altern life cycle for the xenomorphs, a process in which humans are mutated into one of them.
kaiyno 6 months ago
The poor guy is suffering being part of an alien nest, and long comes Ripley to give him third degrees burns as well.
texasbob12 6 months ago
@texasbob12 Well, he was literally asking for it.
FlamingBat 6 months ago
is it keira knightley? ;)
Tralfamadorczyk 6 months ago
Wouldn't a flamethrower make his suffering worse?
BlackHoleSun1921 7 months ago
@BlackHoleSun1921 Evidently more painful, but faster death. Still, I don't fully understand why exactly is he suffering since he didn't sustain injury because the xenomorphs wanted to keep him alive to mutate him into one of them, I don't know, maybe the process is painful.
kaiyno 6 months ago
@kaiyno He's not mutating into an alien, he's got an embryonic facehugger feeding off his guts, pretty painful.
harnois75 5 months ago
@harnois75 Thought embryonic facehuggers aren't fed in anyway, they don't need that because they're only layed by the xenomorph queen and they wait to be hatched until a host is detected, they don't need to feed on anyone's gut, only the xenomorph embryo layed inside the host by the facehugger is the one that feeds off IN THE STOMACH, not the gut and not the facehugger.
kaiyno 5 months ago
@kaiyno There is no queen in the life cycle in A L I E N. That was invented 7 years later. The original alien could perpetuate it's life cycle through it's victims, that was the truly 'alien' idea.
harnois75 5 months ago
@harnois75 Oh, ok, but then how is the embryonic facehugger layed inside the body? a facehugger lays another facehugger inside?
kaiyno 5 months ago
@kaiyno It's not explained. It's probably deliberately ambiguous. If you look at A L I E N as the meeting of arthouse film and hollywood suspense it's not too surprising that things are left up to individual interpretation or speculation. Ridley's prequel Prometheus might possibly explain more about the origins of the alien. But expect some new unanswered questions too.
harnois75 5 months ago
@harnois75 I agree.
kaiyno 5 months ago
@harnois75 the more i think about prometheus the more it seems the movie is bascially surrounded by the idea or what this deleted scene was suppose to show. i saw the trailer for prometheus and im starting to think the only reason the aliens were able to do this was b/c of something the humans did in prometheus. idk when asking a question you get 100 more questions for prometheus.
zomaster1 2 months ago
they did put this in to the extended version of the film because this Xeno in this movie happens to be a Drone and happens to have an interesting skill, it can use dead or near dead bodies and use them to create eggs encase no queen exist. also after really long wile the Drone will preform a hormone change and molt into a Queen takes less time then a Warrior transformation, Drones are male have smooth head will molt to Queen. Warriors have ridges Which are female and go to Praetorian to Queen
pegasusIndustries 7 months ago
This really is a horrible fate. And it seems Bret, too, is being kept alive in there. Good grief. This scene is a classic 'tell' scene where the audience finds out what's really going on. I think one of this film's strong points was the element of mystery and missing pieces. Showing too much is always a mistake, anyway. Let the audience wonder. It's better that way. Same with his Blade Runner. He should never have 'revealed' Deckard's 'mystery'.
humbleradio 7 months ago
@humbleradio He (Ridley Scott) didn't reveal it though, he gave his opinion on Deckard, others involved in the film took the opposite view. Therefore all that's happened is that the argument has raged and people get passionate about it whether or not Deckard is a replicant. But then the best films are ambiguous and are left open to interpretation. Ridley's views and those of the screenwriters only help to further the debate - a good thing IMHO.
harnois75 5 months ago
@harnois75 I wish you were right. But it's Rid's film so as director he has final say. And he did say 'Deck is a replicant'. In my opinion, it's a mistake. Because then it's a story about machines. Whereas, if Deck is human, it's about a human taught about love and compassion by a machine. That's profound. The former is just robots in love. I choose to ignore Rid's statement and disregard all cuts but the original. Film is a group effort - even producers count. (that means i like the VO) ;)
humbleradio 4 months ago
@humbleradio keep them in the dark yes. but this scene should have stayed regardless of what Ridley says.This is truly monstrous.
72281livefreeordie 4 months ago
This was a much more interesting (and original) life-cycle than the whole "alien queen" thing.
dbongard 7 months ago
Personally, I think if they had put this in between Ripley finding Parker and Lambert, and the self destruct, it would have worked just fine, and given the activation of the self-destruct even more power. Its not just about killing one Alien, its about stopping something that could wipe out everyone on Earth.
OpenMawProductions 7 months ago
@OpenMawProductions I agree.
humbleradio 7 months ago
Truly terrifying. What a horrible fate for Bret and Dallas.
MasterJediDude 7 months ago
Giger was very dissapointed this didn't make it into the movie. I absolutely agree, this is truly imaginative and horrible. Scott loved it too, he said as a director you sometimes just have to cut of your little finger to make it work.
The problem was it slowed down her escape from the Nostromo. I wish they could have found a way to have this occur before the countdown, then there would be no problem
eirikwegga 7 months ago
the hive 1:44?
Predalien1233 8 months ago
the only thumb down is from ripley that doesn't like killing them
Superthijs92 8 months ago
I still don't see how Alien lost best art direction to All that Jazz.I wanted to be on the Nostromo,walk,or run through those endless corridors.Same way i felt with Star Wars.Love those sets
deckard97 8 months ago 7
@deckard97 Politics. Ridley despised the Hollywood unions and made his feelings known quite publicly. He was punished.
humbleradio 4 months ago
Both versions of the Alien life cycle can co-exist. I happen to think they're both interesting. There was several old Dark Horse comics, sci fi, and fan sites devoted to the Alien and its biology, and each supplied different theories into how the Aliens could survive without a Queen or colony. One of the theories is this deleted scene (turning humans into eggs) and another was that a drone could recocoon itself and morph into a Queen if none were present. Cool stuff.
BlayzedBlue 9 months ago
Good decision to leave this scene out. It ruins the flow of the movie, changing the viewers emotions from suspense to sorrow and depression.
This is why Scott is a first class director, he obviously saw this and most people would leave the scene in.
spockmcqueen 9 months ago
@spockmcqueen I agree. It's horrific, yet, it slows down and changes tempo like you said. If it could've been inserted earlier it would ruin the mystery, and later, slow down the suspense. so really nowhere to put it.
humbleradio 4 months ago
This movie scared me to death as a kid. Thank god this scene was deleted, it would've finished me off.
krankenshaft 9 months ago 6
@krankenshaft >Yeah, I remember begging my uncle, when I was 10, to let me watch this movie one night when I stayed over at his house... by the time the chestburster scene came up, I was begging him to shut it OFF! :) He made me watch it though, bc I gave him so much crap to see it... now it's one of my favorite movies ever. Funny, huh?
cdw626 4 months ago
There are many hints in the film that the alien is a saprobiont--i.e., it uses a highly acidic digestive fluid to dissolve its prey and then drinks it in. I believe Brett is here partially digested, partially consumed, dissolved, and is packed in a purse and encased in a clear preservative envelope for the meantime. This is clearly the creature's "home base" and it makes sense that it both stores its food and attempts replication here.
scriptfisher 9 months ago
There appears to be multiple uses for the 'hosts' in this film. Kane is used as an incubation chamber for the roaming bipedal stage of the organism. I believe Dallas is also being so used here, with the opened egg glued to him, and the facehugger having dropped off. Bret is harder to interpret here. I believe he is a larder for the roamer. The purse he is tucked in doesn't actually look like the eggs--he is not being consumed here, he is being stored.
scriptfisher 9 months ago
This is kind of a cool concept. Ive always thought of them as a bio-mechanical weapon rather than just another creature that just wanted a meal or to use people as hosts. The idea of degrading a human to pure organic building material for the next monster or "egg" is indeed bazaar and fitting of a plan of eradication.
HigherLunatic1 10 months ago
In my opinion it would be a very good resource in the life cycle of the alien, and very creepy too, that's because it would be cool
fizetr 10 months ago
This is ALIEN's most talked about deleted scene because it provides an otherwise undisclosed insight into the life cycle of the creature. And i can guess what this "life cycle" does:
In the absence of the alien queen, the alien makes a cocoon with the prey, so he can eat it latter (2:21 shows brett's head with a bite and maggots in it because of the discomposition), the body takes part of the nest so the corpses are not just lying there, like the space jockey fossilized in the alien ship.
fizetr 10 months ago 2
@fizetr the 'bite' you refer to is what he sustains from the initial attack by the alien in the cavernous 'chains and rain' scene when he's looking for Jones the cat, not necessarily from the alien nibbling later on.
humbleradio 4 months ago
What can I do?
RAPE MEEE!!!
xD
brutaka359 11 months ago
actually only brett was turing into an egg. Dallas was there to be used as a host
Lonew0lf37 1 year ago
@Lonew0lf37: I got the impression that both were turning into eggs. You have to remember that Brett was taken before Dallas so there was further along in the "life cycle".
KillerSalmon 10 months ago 2
thanks for posting these! it's great to see the decision making process of such a classic film. it's nice a similar scene made it into Aliens.
beyondz55 1 year ago
This is about a hundred times better than what they did in Aliens. Something terrifying and completely "alien", rather than just mimicking eusocial insects with the queen concept
eirikwegga 1 year ago
I have the directors cut of this movie and scene this clip and couldn't figure out why Dallas wanted to die and why they cut it. And after reading some comments here I did not realize they where turning into eggs.
DMalenfant1 1 year ago
It could be considered canon, I mean the alien has the power to create a new facehugger that would have went on Dallas to become a Queen
KenshiroUK 1 year ago
This scene is so creepy and disturbing...
juresaiyan 1 year ago
Actually this scene was explained by cameron as one solitary alien has the ability to "sting" a person and plant an egg in them that will eventually turn him into a queen baring facehugger egg. Thats why Dallas was cocooned, he was to be the host for the new queen. This was how one Facehugger turned the entire Acheron colony. A similar scene was to be in Alien 3 but was cut b/c Fincher thought people wld be confused b/c this scene was only included in the special edition laser disc. What a pity.
cdw626 1 year ago 7
@cdw626 That does make a lot of sense. Funny enough I was confused a bit with Alien 3 when one face hugger infected both Ripley and the dog.
danielqmul 1 year ago
@cdw626 yu mean by acheron colony the one on aliens ......
caribidis 6 months ago
@caribidis Yes, Acheron was actually the name of the planet that Hadly's Hope (the colony) resident's gave for LV-426. If you recall in the ALIENS sp ed, only one facehugger came into the colony. That resulting alien "stung" a host and made him into an egg w/a queen in it. As that queen grew she built a small army of warrior aliens. They then built her throne and started finding hosts and the nest was built around her. That's how the colony became infested, inspired by this scene in ALIEN.
cdw626 6 months ago
@cdw626
Where did you read this?
DylanPenev 5 months ago
@DylanPenev First let me correct one part, Cameron didn't explain this scene, it was actually explained by Ridley Scott and Giger in his book "Giger's Alien" and in special commentary on the Laser Disc Special Edition where the scene was first included. I'm not sure if those comments made it into the DVD Quadrilogy or the Blue Ray Editions. Acheron was given as LV-426's name in ALIENS Official Movie Guide, published in the 80s, which I own all these and tons of other stuff. I'm a hardcore fan.
cdw626 5 months ago
@cdw626 Screw Cameron's bastardized ideas. This is where it's at.
Eragarev 4 months ago
thats pretty hot.
CidCaldensfey 1 year ago
yo me llevaria a dallas con migo aunque el no quiera
xenomorph95 1 year ago
alguien que hable castellano me puede traducir lo k dice dallas y ripley?? no se entiende una mierda
xenomorph95 1 year ago
It was a good thing that this scene was cut from the original. The audience would not have understood that the two men were being turned into eggs. And the scene is illogical too because Ripley has initiated the auto-destruct and she should be getting the hell out of there, and not standing around. Also, Dallas' suffering would have been brought to end more swiftly and painlessly in just a few minutes' time when the ship's engines go nuclear and blow-up
DavyTom71 1 year ago
It's such a creepy scene!! the idea of human life being turned into eggs etc is horrible :) being hosts again
Fender1976uk 1 year ago 3
1 word description of hell= Xenomorph. (actual name of the Alien)
MICHAELandJELL0 1 year ago
@MICHAELandJELL0 I fucking hate xenomorphs.....they mostly come out at night, mostly....
dcollegeboy 1 year ago 6
Id rather have a quick death than to be slowly eaten by an alien egg..
Hrko1992 1 year ago
I always thought they were just being just being "cocooned" just like newt in the sequel, even though Ripley rescued her. Seems a bit pointless that the Alien would do it in this film however since there aren't any face huggers to lay eggs in them. I guess the Alien was just doing it instinctively. That's how I always saw it anyway.
BloodOfRayne 1 year ago
@BloodOfRayne its before they had invented the whole lifecycle concept..in the original idea the Alien could just turn a person into an egg/facehugger..thats really fucking wierd isnt it?
Gloomshadow1 1 year ago
@Gloomshadow1 Well I guess that's why they left this out cos they knew it would fuck up any potential sequels! lol
BloodOfRayne 1 year ago
@BloodOfRayne yeah well, I guess they just figured it bettter not to explain much about the alien, just leave you wondering about it..I saw it as a kid when the movie first came out..it fucking sacred the living shit out of me.. I was like 10 at the time..I just couldnt handle it, it blew my fucking mind..then I sat around for months wondering about what this alien actually was and how it actually looked because they never really showed it long enough for you to get a clear idea of how it looked
Gloomshadow1 1 year ago
@Gloomshadow1 a lot of you keep mentioning that, but aren't providing any sources. Others are theorizing and it actually sounds better than parroting what the film people supposedly said. If it's from a book, then is it the actual Alien book series, or just some stand-alone novelization of the film? - cuz I've read at least several of the novel series, and not only does it not mention this 'original' idea of transforming into eggs, but there is no Ripley, either.
JokersSerious 9 months ago
@JokersSerious Ridley Scott and those guys that wrote "Dark Star" did big ol interviews on it..I saw one back a few years ago here on youtube
Gloomshadow1 9 months ago
@JokersSerious
H.R. Giger made a drawing of the Alien's life cycle in which it hinted that it started with an egg and came full circle with a host being transformed into new eggs. Also it is clear Brett is slowly becoming an egg himself in the deleted scene in which Ripley discovers him. Ridley Scott decided to scrap that scene and let the whole life cycle of the Alien remain a mystery, which makes it scarier for the audience. In one early script Ash explained that it had a short life.
McLarenMercedes 9 months ago
The people turning into eggs is far more disturbing than an alien queen. Too bad they didn't include this in the movie
TheLittleDevil 1 year ago 31
@TheLittleDevil Its really nasty i know i would choose for a queen xD
dommel102 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil Yeah I totally agree, Scott should change the canon to this for the prequels
KnightOfDaFunk 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil i dont think they are being turned into eggs so much as being liquified for nourishment for the eggs to feed on.
ya this is a great scene.
TRaddcliff 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil I kinda like both. we have one turning into eggs and another a queen.
Hallamfoebell 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil Yeah, it was in the book...wonder why they cut it.
eyeofbast 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil actually its is ridiculous
Xpl0dable 1 year ago
@Xpl0dable I love ridiculousness
TheLittleDevil 1 year ago
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danielqmul 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil I agree, this is very scary. Hopefull Ridley Scott's new prequel will touch on this subject. Imo they should have kept this scene in the original movie.
danielqmul 1 year ago
@danielqmul I would love it if he did that. Undo all his wannabe predecessors did to fuck up the series. Undo the queen. I'm sure that would piss off that douche, cameron.
Eragarev 1 year ago
If you have the directors cut you'll see this scene. It makes the movie much scarier. Also the Alien Anthology gives you the choice to watch the regular version or directors cut. I like the directors cut because of this scene and when the alien smacks the cat. Makes the monster more sadistic. For some reason I'd be more scared to be confronted by the Alien drone from this movie than the Queen in the sequel.
shatterstarbox 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil You are right, but they though it was unrealistic for a person to become an egg :b
gonzaloNMF 1 year ago
@TheLittleDevil i agree, very disturbing, still, theres nothing to say that when a drone is separated from the hive and no queen is present, that this isnt how they start a new colony? I dunno, one of those eggs could give us a royal facehugger? this is a brillant concept in this video, terrifying
grandultra 9 months ago
@TheLittleDevil Cameron used this as an excuse for cloning. I think the idea was that the alien would capture people and turn them into eggs which in turn, turn into face huggers... which Cameron said he thought ridiculous
xIegionx 9 months ago
@xIegionx Cameron? You mean Ridley Scot, right?
JokersSerious 9 months ago
@JokersSerious Yes the FIRST name was Ridley the second pat is cameron. Shit
xIegionx 9 months ago
@TheLittleDevil are you talking about that part on 2:17? :P
Taliesin109 7 months ago
wow, there are two different takes of this scene! they added one of them to the director's cut, but this is even an alternate take than that one. very horrifying! thanks for uploading!
jonasbjarki 1 year ago
One of the most powerful scenes of the movie. I think they took it out because it lacked sense as for the alien life cycle but I think that it takes some of the momentum and scene logic away when you watch the movie without it.
juju1305 1 year ago
Remember this movie came out long before the Life cycle in Aliens was established. If this scene hadnt been deleted Im sure the life cycle in the rest of the franchise would have followed suit.
bigfish0886 1 year ago 11
@bigfish0886 - This is still canon if you wish it. AvP on Atari Jaguar actually have you cocooning people like that. As far as I'm concerned, if there is no available Queen and the current active Xenomorph doesn't morph, then this is what will happen.
Zeithri 1 year ago