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  • nice

  • fantastic music.

  • Loved that the original alien had a visible human-esque skull. For some reason warping the human figure just makes something that much scarier and more grotesque. It's unfortunately something they largely did away with in the following films. It gave them a visible lineage to us, a visible hybrid evolution... And frankly that is just creepy as hell all in itself.

  • @Fredrock1982 Really? I thought the human skull aspect was stupid...I mean, it's meant to be an ALIEN. A creautre that has no relevance or similarity to man. I thought if anything, the skull was uncreative and brought the design down a notch.

    But, to each their own, I understand and respect your opinion. That's a good point!

    You can still buy plenty of figurines that have the skull slightly visable! :)

  • @ThePatchworkPossum I certainly believe so.I always thought that was a big part of why people of the time period swooned over the romantic untertones in Universal's Dracula while some actually fainted in the theaters at Frankenstein's monster.And Dracula was by far the more feindish of the two, the man sullied one's very soul! Distortion of the human figure is VERY powerful in horror films.That notion is just as powerful today as it was then.I'm certain it's part of why Resident Evil is popular.

  • @ThePatchworkPossum I certainly believe so.I always thought that was a big part of why people of the time period swooned over the romantic untertones in Universal's Dracula while some actually fainted in the theaters at Frankenstein's monster.And Dracula was by far the more feindish of the two, the man sullied one's very soul! Distortion of the human figure is VERY powerful in horror films.That notion is just as powerful today as it was then.I'm certain it's part of why Resident Evil is popular.

  • I think the design of the first alien is the best.. very creepy! Althought the designs in aliens are great. Excellent video, thanks.

  • RAHHHHH (the queen RAHHH!!)

  • I know it's wrong to say, but I feel like it's about time they remade this film

  • @XboxAnnihilator Egads... I'd have to disagree. If I said think of any other actress portraying Ripley would you honestly say that again? The very thought of Halle Berry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Angelina Jolie, or any other modern actress playing Ripley makes me shudder. I can't even imagine these films being remade in the horrible sexed-up over-dramatic Hollywood of today. The dark artistic edge they had would be utterly destroyed.

  • @Fredrock1982 Some day they will. In fact, there are already talks about a remake. I have always imagined it being so much better than the slow paced, overly suspenseful original film. Seriously, when I go to a movie in theaters called "Alien" I want to see the alien. I don't want to see brief glimpses and shadows of the alien. And I certainly don't want to spend over an hour and a half until we actually see an alien. Just my opinion. It was a classic, it's just not scary anymore.

  • This would be great on Halloween! Imagine the little trick or treaters faces!!!

  • i never noticed that they had eye sockets until now, always thought the light grey color was for a giant brain with lots of nerves that was hyper evolved, but this is alot creepier :3

  • somehow scary maybe one day they create a real one

  • H.R. Giger is one kool artist, people. seriously.

  • What made Giger decide to cover the skull/eye socket area?

  • @xIegionx because it didnt look good. A creature with no eyes is far scarier and more alien.

  • @Hashpotato Maybe it has eyes but we can't see it

  • It's amazing that that alien, and the ones in Aliens are much better designs and executed much better than anything we've seen since, especially the god awful AVP aliens.

  • This video is brilliant! It gives us a great look into the detail and hard work put into building one of these and working it. Oh,how I wish I could find and afford this piece...It is truly amazing!

  • @DJBlackarachnia Thank You:) Check EBay.

  • @DJBlackarachnia

    I'm selling The Alien Head Limited Edition Boxset on ebay, take a look its item number: 140545642966 - search for that and you should find it!

  • Wats is with the tounge wat is it a baby alien srry for asking but i havent seen vids i'm only 12 XD

  • @SillyJillyComedy What a "tounge"?

  • The tongue is a weapon it shoots out and bites the body of a enemy-usually the head-and usually kills it (dunno how I‘ve seen the movies since i‘m 11)

  • @SillyJillyComedy it's an inner jaw, they use that to kill their enymies

  • @SillyJillyComedy the "tongue" is the xenomorph's inner/second jaw which they use as a weapon (and possibly eat) and the "baby alien" is the chestburster which is the second (third if you count the egg) stage in the xenomorph life cycle.

  • @SillyJillyComedy

    It's Alien's inner jaw.

  • creepy ass video O_O

  • I didnt know, in the original alien head is skull...

  • Who was the guy who played the Alien?

    I know Kevin Peter Hall played the original Predator.

  • @jonnybridge in the first film it was Bolaji Badejo.

  • i think i get nightmares about the music... OO'

  • 1:56 the tail looks like a giant pines

  • genial music !!!!

  • @buzzfuzz13 Did you mean "General"?

  • @spacetimesystemz i think he meant genius

  • @buzzfuzz13 Think he meant Genius.. "Genial" is the danish word for it.

  • man, the alien has gangsta grilles lol XD

  • I don't know who the guy is with the baseball cap... but he could put his alien inside of me

  • @lupelupelupe If your a girl, no problem:-)

  • never noticed that the alien had that human skull form inside his head, suppose it was not taken in the sequels

  • 1979..Alien...before it was bent over a kitchen sink and righteously butt raped by endless re-designs,the fucking predator franchise and writers, directors and spfx artists without a frickin clue in the world.

    What was once so very creepy cool..is now just a fucking parody of itself.

    Heres hoping Ridley wipes all the Predators hunting Aliens bullshit and everything else mentioned above, in the prequels.

  • I remember a magazine called OMNI that did a feature on Giger months before the movie was released. It was his nightmarish artwork that got me into the theater. One of only 2 films ( the other being The Exorcist ) that delivered on the promised "fright level"...

  • the birth of a masterpiece!

  • A Xenobiological prodigy. Hands down

  • great vid! but who is the ***hole with the baseball cap?? totally ghei

  • @robin1506 Your Dad.

  • This is Obviously the Total Inspiration for the Newborn From Alien Resurrection, just LOOK there are SO MANY similarities!

  • So the original alien design had a transparent dome on the head and you could see a skull? I never noticed that in the movie. I know in the 2nd movie they got rid of the shiny transparent dome on the head.

  • @xXBallistic82Xx It is in the original film, its just to dark to seen.

  • @spacetimesystemz well the dome was not that clear in the original movie ,i mean you could see the skull but not that clear.

  • so awesome. love the old practical models. much better than CG.

    i always wonder though, why the alien had a skull with eye sockets and nasal canal, but no eyes or airway. looks so tuff though!

  • @TRaddcliff Because it came from a human body. If the facehuger mated with another creature it would look different. Its like the alien dna mixed with human dna. The alien from aliens are probobly a different mixture.

  • @tokyorider2019 FUCK am i dumb...ya ha ha ha. the most obvious detail...and i overlook it. HA HA HA HA

    i AM really dumb sometimes.

  • @tokyorider2019

    It was the same mixture but with different design. Alien in third movie is different mixture.

  • @TRaddcliff Think about it........Where did the Alien come from?

  • I would rather run into a dark alley with 2 terminators and 5 predators than one baby one of these things.

  • This is what I was looking for. The original design of Alien. It brings so much mystery to Alien universe as such. I heard that Giger used actual human skull to make this model, am I right? Either way just look at it, it's like a human mutation, human skull, no eyes but developed senses instead. I think this theme can be found in Space Jockey design as well. Look it up everyone!

  • i love this movie, every part

  • LOL! Pause At 0:43!

  • and others make them better - its a common thing - the computer youre using has a many fathers

  • That was really creepy.

    Face it, HR Giger's alien is one of the scariest things in movies, ever. Even more than the original Terminator, 'cos at least that looked human. But the alien was simply other, with only two functions: kill, and reproduce.

  • i really like the way the alien was in first movie. so much mystery behind it. ity looked like a hellish demon instead of a cliche alien. its a shame james cameron ( plz dnt think i hate him because i dnt, i love aliens just as much ) , changed the whole mystery to the aliens and made them out to be like giant ants or somthin similar

  • The man that is squatting at 0:45 on the leftside is the italian artist Carlo Rambaldi. He made the moving of the alien's jaws, also the entire Spielberg's E.T., the alien at the end of "Third encounters of third kind", and many others.

  • thanks for that great video, showing the work and people who made this fantastic movie possible, as big H.R. GIGER Fan i own nearly all his Books, great Artist : )

  • Only 180 comments?? People!!!??? This is the greatest artist.. Dead or Alive, period! This man has inspired ME, and changed my outlook on life.. I took up sculpting in hopes to one day be 1/10th as amazing as you.. H.R Giger, It would be a dream just to talk for 5:00 minutes with you. I've been blessed and only been sculpting 6 months. Maybe 1 day YOU will hear about ME..... ,anytime ~~Tom

  • Watch Predators Full Movie Online here: predatorsonline.atw.hu

  • lol 1:54 looks like a d**k

  • Giger is insain but a genious at the same time.

  • The original alien can beat the shit out of the predator anyday.

  • @Womprat77 the predator has advance weapons

  • i have just one question of the xenomorph construction... how the fuck can they see? i see that they have eye holes.. but they got them insde that shell... can it see through that shell, or do it just smell it's "pray"

  • @rakimion

    No one knows, there are only hypothesies.

  • @rakimion they just smell their prey, that's also the reason why the cloak of the predator has no use against them

  • HI, I HAVE MADE A HALF ALIEN'S HEAD CROSING THE WALL OF PAPER MACHE ON REAL SIZE, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT COLOURS I SHOULD TO BUY, SOMEONE KNOWS?

  • Is it me, or does the original design look a lot more terrifying with the transparent skull-dome and all?

    Now I'm disappointed that we didn't see this design in the original. ):

  • Giger is a god...

  • where can i find the soundtrack of this?

  • @currycatdrone The Internet.

  • @spacetimesystemz Where in the internet?

  • @spacetimesystemz And what should i search for?

  • why do people think cars were invented in america????? it was germany!!!!!...

  • It was really a good idea to cover the eyes and nose-opening. it looks much scarier without eyes.

  • the first alien.... what's it???

  • beautifull

  • american s did invent cars & computers it say so in there books WAIT A MIN that sarkasum bythe way probly spelled wrong but hay love this bantter cocknobber just a quick q whos this girl hes cattin 2 cant find text on this page of any girl but as u say Ignorance is apart of the human race.well so is procreation m8 ye i know its a bit sad to chat up on u tube but he were only human point made i hope il probly get a tone of abuse now bring it on sorry for the rant im quiet mad

  • @killzoneroper Your wrong again. Dont take there word for it do the research yourself. Dont be igorant all your life monkey boy. Ive got better things to do than talk to children over the net. Go out and find same real people to talk to. Fudge Packer.

  • @spacetimesystemz

    "Your wrong again"

    Oh the fucking irony....

  • @Eogcloud Put me right?

  • @spacetimesystemz You're.....you illiterate mongoloid.

  • @Eogcloud Petty child.

  • You have made a few enemies on here. Dont you have anything better to do, than to argue for no reason?

  • @Eogcloud will you to shut it no offense but dont respond.

  • @rollinface697 If you can't reply with sentences that make sense....don't bother at all.

  • @killzoneroper

    What the fuck is this guy saying?

    Anyone?

  • @killzoneroper oh jeez. if you're gonna argue with people at least try to use semi-legible grammer. i can't even read what this comment says. :P

  • @killzoneroper 1. Spelling is your friend. 2. US Americans did not invent the computer, nor cars. 3. Wooozaaa :)

  • @killzoneroper Germans invented computers 

  • @Eclipsepoland Uk post office invented computers.

  • @Eclipsepoland actually...the guy was german.. but the brittish aided him during the war and he built the code cracking machine which was basically a computer... but perfected by steve jobs ;) LOL

  • @cazper6 You mean Bill Gates.

    Yes you do.

  • @killzoneroper it doesnt say that in our txt books... i never seen that. but our govt. did invent the internet your on. ;) give credit where credit is due. but don't call out others on it

  • the skull makes it look cheap...seems like they covered that up a lot for the film by using a dome

  • @vivalaminion The skull beneath the carapace of the Alien head is kind of creepy actually.

  • what was the name of the song

  • that design is the creepiest monster design ever, H.R gigers aliens have always seemed like they were real like they could really exist somewhere.

  • i still find it odd that the aliens head looks like a cock.

  • @bandman232

    Alien design was inspired by one of Giger's paintings in which was showed humanoid creature which head IS dick. So I guess Giger slightly changed it to make Alien not only creapy but bizzarre at the same time because in my own oppinnion, Alien's head design is one of it's best and famous trademarks.

  • creepy shit right there!!

  • Ibanez guitars are JUNK

  • I kinda wish that they kept the human skull visible so that you can see how the alien form is just a perversion of the creature it impregnated, makes it even creepier to me.

    Though I still love the design they went with.

  • Rambaldi Rulez !!!

  • Giger's art is so..... abstract, and yet so oddly dark and disturbing, he's a true artist, if perhaps, a tad bit vulgar at times. I consider "The Alien" his finest achievement, along with the alien landscape and the derelict spaceship in Ridley Scott's movie. Somehow, everything in that movie represents things both beautiful and elegant to some of the most nightmarish imagery ever in a movie. Pretty remarkable and iconic. That said, Alien is my favorite horror movie :) cool stuff.

  • @MaybeYesNo90 oh, and Cameron's "Aliens" is one of the greatest sequels of all time (along with movies like "The Empire Strikes Back", "Terminator 2" and "The Dark knight" in my opinion) and a personal favorite aswell :) and please don't resort to verbally butchering me for mentioning The Dark Knight, since it is a more recently new movie. I liked TDK a lot, it's just that some people think it's overrated and have to bitch about it, so.......Yaaayy!! :D

  • @MaybeYesNo90 Everything about the Alien gives off hints about it's anatamy. The skull representing how the aliens "copy" the beings the came from.

  • yeah, I've read about it, although it is never referred to in the movies. Well, maybe in Alien 3 and Resurrection (both, whom I dislike) where the Alien is born through a dog (I read there was an ox version aswell) and the stupid pale alien in the fourth movie, that alien had eye sockets aswell.

  • I think giger's was the best out of all of them.

  • true that

  • My favourite movie

  • Is...alien's forehead made of true human skull?

  • I wonder if that big head if his hurt his neck, well we will see their back story in Scott Ridleys prequel soon :D

  • Gigger is the master of horror.

  • Shity replica & shity vid, sorry.

  • If you did not mean it, you would not have said it. I see you like to play with toys on your videos. You don't do irony very will do you, just like the americans. Cockknocker.

  • I understand your point but don't say shit like, "just like americans". Ignorant people dont come from specific countries. Ignorance is apart of the human race. Don't be a dick and label people.

  • @spacetimesystemz  what?! :/ 0.o

  • @Ibanezuser1991

    Let me point out some stuff. 1. Charles Babbage invented the first Computer, so it's not an American invention either.

    2. The internet was invented during research as defense againt Russia.

    3. The first car was invented by a Belgian man, then the first automobile was French. It may have been the first mass produced by Ford first, but Americans did NOT invent vehicles.

  • @Ibanezuser1991 this is youtube not facebook :(

  • @Ibanezuser1991 cars and computers invented by americans? go to school kid

  • @Ibanezuser1991 The inventor of the computer was English.

  • @Ibanezuser1991 Just realised you've already been schooled in this and much more. be ashamed!

  • I never saw the skull until now i thought the hole head was like a sensory organ. 5 stars!

  • It is supposed to look like a Penis but there are bones

  • @JapaneseModernist

    True- forgot where but somewhere online they had the sketches by Giger himself of the alien designs...even the second jawset looked like a penis...

    Now I think about it lots of his images either had penises or breasts O.o

    But all bio-mechanized and whatnot =)

  • Yes, All giger works are very sexual. for instance, the alien "tongue" was a penis on a female figure mouth I think. Anyway, Some people even say the whole movie is full of sexual symbols. for example: how the alien "rapes" its victims in order to be born. How the "larvae" that comes out of the guy's chest resembles a penis, How Ripley is a very "masculine" woman and etc. Anyway, the movie and Giger works are fantastic.

  • @JapaneseModernist Agreed, yes they are =)

  • Oh, Just realized you are a woman. No offence but I'm surprised! Haha, feel bad for saying some of the things I said in the previous comments. Anyway, Do you happen to use MSN or any social network sites?

  • @JapaneseModernist

    LOL I get that lots of time. Actually I use to draw adult related art, so nothing Giger has drawn startles me because its likely /I've done worst/ and have >8-)

    Far as chatting, I'm way too shy and crazy ^.^

  • If you want to chat up women, go to a web-fuck site. Dont do it on here, N00b.

  • Oh lol. I don't even leven at the same country as her and I already have a girlfriend (soon to be wife) so that really wasn't my intention. I was just interested in talking to someone who seemed like a huge alien and giger fan (which is hard to come by). She being a female just makes it a little bit more interesting but that isn't the main reason I wanted to chat with her. You are a real loser for thinking the only reason woman should be talked to is when you want something beyond just talking.

  • "leven" was supposed to be "live". I'm not from the US, Sorry.

  • 0:43 :p

  • RAMBALDI !!!!

  • I LIKE GIGER

  • the one at 0:24 is the creepiest, with the wider mouth and all.

  • @kadrendo didn't they use the concept in alien resurrection?

  • they didnt scrap it, if you look really closely at it's "forehead", it's kind of transparent and you can see a skull.

  • I don't think so. I think the eyeless design hides it's intention. Almost gives the Alien some mysticism.

  • How many more times do I have to say it. The original alien had eye sockets. You could not see them be case of the lighting.

  • I was responding to Kadrendo's original post and it didn't involve me disagreeing with the fact that the eye socket designed existed.

    Stop yapping.

  • Thats a very funny word. A bit like your face. I can "Yapp" as much as I want, its my video. Where are are your vidz? Sorry, you have none, you take other peoples, and make them your own, and then comment about them. "Yapping", its a very childish word, a bit like your mind. Come here and stop me "Yapping", fat boy.

  • You know, a simple, "I was wrong, lordsorgo. I'm sorry." would have been sufficient.

  • These xenomorph aliens have occasionally been in my night dreams for well over 10 years. My unconscious mind must have latched on to this image as a symbol or meaning for something.

  • childhood lol

  • a++++++++++

  • Alien the best movie moster ever HR Giger design was awesome his biomechanical theme worked great on the big screen

  • Ugh! I'm SO jealous! I want to see the real Alien in action! They had the best job in the world.

  • giger is so awsome

  • @myergang1

    yeah i met him as he signed the "Species" Books, great Man

  • you I got to thinking and I say that it would be really bad ass if Giger made more art pieces that had animitronics.

  • alien has eyes?

  • It's the human skull from taking the traits from it's host, the humans.

  • oh now i get it, just like how the hybrid alien got predator traits

  • its eyes are covered by a dark shell

    think of it like a visor from a fighter pilot's helmet

  • That would be creepy to see moving when knowones around

  • omg human transforming to a alien thats like o.m.g :-p

  • Magníficos efectos para esta impresionante creación, sin duda superan a las computadoras que lamentablemente son demasiado usadas en estos tiempos.

  • ALUCINANTE

  • i lost the game

  • if i where there, seeing that thing move, i would be like HOLY S***!!!!! and run out screaming... xS

  • H.R.GIGER:  Please, you have got to be involved in this. Ridley's on board, man!!

  • What?