Surrealist artist H.R. Giger - one of the driving creative forces between 1979's Alien - died today in Zurich after complications from a fall. A 2010 interview published by Wired traced Giger's ...

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Before the blood-chilling monster in "Alien" was designed by H.R. Giger, a couple of other ideas were considered that were ...

There’s a lot to love about Ridley Scott’s 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien, including the masterful directing, suspenseful screenplay written by Dan O’Bannon, and its compelling protagonist, ...

Cult artist H.R. Giger was a big deal right after ALIEN was released in 1979. All of my friends ran out and bought his books Necronomicon and Giger’s Alien. His “biomechanical” designs had the ...

Action is at the core of the new Aliens Fireteam Elite third-person shooter, but the scenery is lifted straight out of a feature-length film. The environments pay great respect to the macabre ...

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 ...

H.R. Giger poses with a prototype of his Xenomorph design for 'Alien.' The artist hoped to feature translucent version of the creature, but that version was abandoned before shooting began. (Courtesy ...

The Oscar-winning Swiss set and creature designer of Ridley Scott's "Alien" died following a fall in his Zurich home. By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger who designed the monster and revolutionary sci-fi sets for the film "Alien" has died, his museum said on Tuesday. He was 74. Giger, who was born ...