An idea is born, evolves, takes shape and takes on a life of its own. When screenwriter Dan O’Bannon began outlining the script for Alien, he looked at several sci-fi and horror productions. “I didn’t ...

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The gaping hole in the alien corpse’s torso is where the horror begins. Ridley Scott‘s Alien (1979) doesn’t just introduce a monster—it weaponizes industrial dread and corporeal violation into ...

Veronica Cartwright is looking back at the time that she had to repeatedly slap Sigourney Weaver as part of a later deleted Alien scene. The actress, who played Nostromo navigator Lambert, revealed ...