Alien was first released 40 years ago this month. Helen O'Hara explains how the movie's monster became a cinema icon – and brought unexpected fame to the shy Swiss artist who created it In the late ...

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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.

H.R. Giger, the man who designed the Alien for Ridley Scott’s 1978 science fiction classic, Alien, has died aged 74. Giger’s staggeringly innovative work was inspired by night terrors he had; with the ...