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 ...

With each new Alien instalment, the eldritch mystery that came with the HR Giger-designed xenomorph has all but evaporated The alien, which gives Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror classic its title, appeared ...

painter and designer HR Giger. The secret story of the birth and the secret of the production, how the alien that was not scary but also beautiful was created, is published on YouTube. The appearance ...

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

A Swiss artist whose name has become synonymous with the very concept of bionic horrors — Hans Ruedi Giger — forever altered the landscape of science fiction with the creation of the xenomorph.

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 ...