“I had never been so sure of anything in my life.” — Ridley Scott, recalling his reaction to H. R. Giger’s creation for Alien. The most terrifying thing about the Alien in Ridley Scott’s film was ...

The first Facehugger design for "Alien" was initially much larger and more grotesque. Thankfully H. R. Giger scaled it down ...

OSCAR winning artist H R Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic fil Alien, has died after a fall. Hans Ruedi Giger, 74, a surrealist artist, died in hospital on ...

De Zwitserse kunstenaar Hans Rüdi Giger, die het buitenaardse wezen Alien bedacht, is gisteren op 74-jarige leeftijd overleden. Hij stierf in een ziekenhuis aan de gevolgen van een val, meldde de ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered "Alien" in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

BERLIN -- Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said Tuesday. Sandra ...

Undeniably, Hans Ruedi Giger, the late Swiss artist, was most famous for his design of the xenomorph in Ridley Scott's immortal sci-fi classic "Alien," for which he won an Academy Award for Best ...

H.R. Giger's original creature design continues to frighten audiences decades after it debuted in "Alien," but does the ...

BERLIN (AP) - The Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator ...

In een ziekenhuis in Zürich is de Zwitserse kunstenaar Hans Rüdi Giger (74) overleden. Giger was vooral bekend als ontwerper van het angstaanjagende ruimtewezen uit de film Alien (1979) van Ridley ...

Erik Hawkins is an award-winning writer and editor who's been obsessed with cinema since he was old enough to hold Roger Ebert's Video Home Companion in his hands. He lives in NYC, where he rabidly ...