Giger's Alien Monster III, homage to Max Von Moos' "Devil's Kitchen (or Stalingrad)" ?

leading fromDevelopment of Giger's art  Photograph of HR Giger painting Alien Monster III, as printed in Total Film Summer 2014Giger's Alien Monster III, 1978a) Long wonderingFor many years since I bought a copy of Giger's Alien back in the late eighties, I have wondered about the painting HR Giger's Alien Monster III. I observed the serpentine vision of Giger's Alien creature coming out of a sacrificial stone , with octopus like suckers...

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The alien creature's head

Ridley Scott: I always thought that the head was remarkable. I always thought it was a gelatinous mass, thick aspic like jelly and it is all brain. It is almost like a horse's head bit if you touched it, it would be soft, like a firm jelly-fish and that was its brain. (Ridley Scott Alien: The Director's Cut - Interview released on the internet on a site now long gone to promote the release of the director's c...

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Physicality of the Alien humanoid creature

leading from AlienThe UmbilicalThe H...

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Physicality of the Alien humanoid's head.

Leading from physicality of the humanoid Alien creatureRidley Scott: I always thought that the head was remarkable. I always thought it was a gelatinous mass, thick aspic like jelly and it is all brain. It is almost like a horse's head but if you touched it, it would be soft, like a firm jelly-fish and that was its brain. (Ridley Scott Alien: The Director's Cut - Interview released on the internet on a site now long gone to promote the release of...

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Dead body of a captain found but crew missing

Leading fromAfterworldsThe mysterious Space Jockey from Alien fused to his seat.a) In Alien, we find the mysterious remains of the Space Jockey in the alien derelict ship and perhaps there were other crew members who had gone missing.b) The idea appears to have its origins in the 1897 Gothic horror novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker. There is a part in the story where Dracula leaves his castle to go to England,  and boards a Russian ship, the Demeter,...

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Dan O'Bannon on Alien from Moebius Redux documentary interviews on Disc 2 of DVD set.

leading from Alien  Information from interview used in Dune and the Gathering, A Sofa in LADan O'Bannon: Well, this is it, this is the book I borrowed from Giger in 1975. When Dune fell through, I came back to LA, I brought this book with me, not much else. I didn't know the picture was going to be cancelled, I came back here for Christmas, to see my friends, and I had a phone call, Dune was cancelled, so I lost all my clothes and...

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Early Alien Artwork

Leading formAlien1.  Ron Cobb's Derelict2. Chris Foss' derelict3 Giger's influence on Ron Cobb's Alien Birth Tem...

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Giger's influence on Ron Cobb's Alien Birth Temple.

leading from HR Giger's Passages i-ixandEarly Alien Artwork a) Visible remnants of Giger's paintings?Dan O'Bannon wanted Giger to design the pyramid interior from an early point in the movie preproduction. What caught my eye in Ron Cobb's painting made to help sell the Alien script were two things. The roof of the chamber's similarity to a Passage paintings and the strange winged triangle with an eye in the centre. To L.A., Dan had brought with him...

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HR Giger's Passages I-IX influencing Nostromo corridors

Leading from Nostromo andInspiration behind HR Giger's Passages i-ix Possible inspiration for Alien's Nostromo corridors Giger would compare the passageways designed by Ron Cobb, in the Nostromo in the Alien movie to his own Passages suggesting that his own paintings had an influence on the look. He understood that Ridley liked this series of paintingsPassage IVSource Quotes HR Giger: Even inside the Nostromo, that was Ron Cobb, he made a few...

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ALIEN : LIST OF ELEMENTS TO BE DESIGNED

leading from Alien Resources,  The FacehuggerThe SporesSpore to Facehugger &The Pyramid(Giger's Alien, p10)ALIENLIST OF ELEMENTS TO BE DESIGNEDEXTERIOR, ANCIENT TEMPLE.  Approximately twenty meters tall, should suggest an ancient, primitive and cruel cultureINTERIOR, TEMPLE.  This is where the Spore Pods are stored. This room is entered through a vertical tunnel in the roof (the normal entrance has long since collapsed). The Spore...

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The biomechanoid that O'Bannon wanted

Leading from: The Alien creaturedetail from Necronom V. Was it this one?a) Mystery of O'Bannon's original chosen biomechanoidInstead of Ron Cobb's earlier design for an alien creature that resembled a sort of an oversized lobster, Dan O'Bannon had a vision Giger's alien creature in mind for the monster right from the beginning as he sat on Ron Shusett's sofa. He would describe a Giger painting but exactly which one it was is not...

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Dan O'Bannon's Mysteries

Leading from:  The Original Alien Script a. Dan's love of science fictionDan had a great knowledge of Science Fiction books and movies. We see some of this in the many different themes and ideas that he added to his Alien script, we see themes and ideas recognisable by fans of writers Clifford D. Simak, Van Vogh, Philip José Farmer, H. P. Lovecraft and movies such as Planet of the Vampires, The Thing from Outer Space and numerous others....

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