Best monster of all time! The Alien is horrifying, interesting, and beautiful to look at. ALIEN remains my favorite movie of all time.

This film was one of the most important moments of my teens...seeing this film made me really interested in films as an art form rather than just an entertainment form :)

the best creature in the history of the cinema

There was a lot of hard work and craftsmanship put into this film. That's why I love it so much.

Please, someone, hit my head so I can forget about Prometheus forever and enjoy this film again.

The alien running over to see is Parker okay after he gets hit with the tail is absolute cinema gold..

I first saw Alien when I was 9 years old, i'm 27 now, and even now I am still completely in awe of the Xenomorph creature. The creature itself is disturbingly beautiful, the way it moves is so graceful for such a large creature.

I love how Ridley is drinking a beer during the interview

Best decision was to take his eyes off ALIEN. It was so much more sinister!

10:51 Alien: "oh hey parker are you ok man?"

The greatest Sci-fi horror ever made. Followed closely by John Carpenter's The Thing. A real shame Scott fucked it up his Prometheus and Covenant.

By quantum mechanics and the many worlds hypothesis - by creating it, we have ensured that the movie Alien is now alive and out there, somewhere.

a tall guy wearing a full-body suit designed by H. R. Giger, mechanical devices for the head & mouth close-ups - and it became one of the scariest creatures to be ever seen in a movie. much scarier than the CGI aliens from later movies. thank you Ridley Scott, H. R. Giger & the entire crew for creating such an amazing creature and making such an awesome movie.

One of, if not the most terrifying creature/monster/alien from any movie.

Without Giger, the Alien artist, and Goldsmith, the sound track composer, the movie Alien would not have been so successful.

So one of the people playing the Alien is a black graphic designer doing Tai Chi and the other one a gymnast who talks politics while wearing the Alien costume and tennis shoes and getting his ass covered with K-Y jelly by a flamboyant dresser called 'Mother'. this will forever change the way i view the movie.

He's right, it is scarier if a monster is very close to looking human, but with definite parts that are horrifyingly wrong. This puts the fearsomeness into that which is otherwise very familiar.

Regardless of how much effort CGI involves at the end of the day it will never be better than practical effects, they are after all, physically real, and you cant get more real looking than that.

one of favorite movies of all-time

The "Alien Quadrilogy" is a 10 (!) DVD set... 4 movies, 4 bonus discs (1 for each movie, and 2 supplemental discs.

Damn that movie scared the shit out of me years ago. Fantastic movie and fantstic people.

I will never forget jumping 2 feet in the air when it attacked his face! I was 9 years old in 1979...👍👍👍

Saw Alien at the drive-in when I was a teen, scared the crap out of all of us. Best sci-fi monster of its time, no wonder Geiger bagged an Oscar the mad bastard.

Because it looks like a shaved chimp. There was preproduction art showing a more Lovecraftian giant sea creature and when I saw that I got great expectations for the film. They all went down the drain in that scene. Thank you very much, Mr. Abrahams...

I remeber seeing Alien for the first time and how the creature was like the ultamite boogeyman for me. Seeing how it was created and how it worked is so surreal in my mind ha

H.R. Giger is a very interesting character all by himself. Someone should do a documentary on him. His art transformed the sci-fi genre; look at how many movies have been made based on what he did for the original "Alien." Then there are the many copycat movies and so forth...

That guy who was the body for the Xeno has some long arms! Hes such a legend they said he was studying at uni at the time, geez he should have tried to make money off this, I bet he just thought nothing of it at the time, he probably didnt even know what it was all about.

Gieger is a legend.

'Where the hell are you from anyway, Giger?' 'Ze upper vest side...?!?'

It cannot be said enough how ingenious a move it was on Ridley Scott's part to show as little of the full Alien as possible. The scenes of Bolaji Badejo walking around in the suit really ruin the mystique of the creature.

Best alien creature ever!

Back in 1978 when this movie was being film and a year before theatre release.It would of been great to know if the director says,"lunch break everyone,be back on set in an hour",and the actor in the "alien" costume says,"I'm going to McDonald's for burgers& fries you guys want anything?"(now,imagine the customers expression at that restaurant & no trailers of the movie on tv yet).

lol, they lubed up the Alien's head with lube.

THE BEST MOVIE EVER

I would have been scared shitless if i was one of the actors. I know it's a guy on a costume, but fuck it, he would scare me shitless. Not to mention the nightmares during the filming.

ALIEN is probably the best horror movie of all time! Ridley is the greatest director of all time!

that last bit made me LMao - Mother " I'll do it "

Ridley Scott smokes a cigar and drinks a bottle of beer while talking on the making of videos. Proper bloke.

The lips on that thing are so scary! The way they slowly move up to reveil the teeth...

Actually, the thought of these creatures evolving naturally in space arround us was way more scary. A universe full of unknown nightmares.

Wow, look at the detail put into the Alien mouth, face, the muscles, rare to see that kinda effort today, all cgi. Very cool.

I have all of these in my "Director's Cut" version of Alien. Really Ridley explained the "DC" label was for marketing and Fox just wanted to put in some deleted scenes for the Alien DC two disc DVD releases. Veronica Cartwright always was in good spirits during these interviews despite the shit they did to her. The chest burster scene is funny because none of the actors, aside from Hurt, knew what was going to happen, so those reactions are their real, on the spot gut reactions.

I'm not attacking Badejo...he did a fine job, but the limitations of what the FX team could do with the suit at the time were apparent from the documentary. Focusing on the head/mouth and never showing the full xenomorph walking in an upright position was ingenious. And unlike with Spielberg's shark ("Bruce") in Jaws, it wasn't because of technical glitches or malfunctions that the Alien didn't appear more; Scott intuitively knew that "less is more" with horror. That's why he's a genius.

Thank You ! Good CGI isn't noticeable at all.,and It would surprise some of these people how much CGI they simply aren't seeing.

Actually, the Movie Idea and the Alien Creature costume design was created in the late 60's but it wasn't until 10 years later that the movie was finally made.....i know that as FACT !

Geiger was a real genius!!! Alien was mechanically complicated i see

In the bit where the guy with the camera is killed (he is grabbed by the beast), the Cloverfield monster is clearly seen and it disappoints badly...

0:30 Chills in spine.....

Well, you know, here on earth, caterpillars grow at about the same speed, lol. Just a few days, and they are things the size of your pinky, when a few days ago you could barely even see them.

giger seems to be a little light in the loafers.

No, At the Mountains of Madness was halted due to rating and budget disputes before plot details of Prometheus were beginning to leak out. It's true Del Toro commented on the plot similarites when the film was released, but his film had already been shelved. It's rather irritating when some spout disinformation all over the place. That's the internet for you though.

Watch The Thing 1982. Then watch The prequel and tell me which one looks more vile and organic. In my opinion cgi should only be used when the object in question is to massive or expensive to build like a transformer or a spaceship like the Prometheus ship in Prometheus. Looks superb.Bits in these sorts of movies that could have been pulled off better with CGI but it should NEVER be overused in a horror movie.

Hollywood producers: "We need something absolutely messed up for our movie... SEND IN THE EUROPEANS!"

No problem, just a suggestion ;) Well, if that was the case I wouldn't have any problem with the film, but it is not the case. That's precisely why I encourage you (or whatever is the correct word in english) to read it. There is no influence, it is a direct copy and paste, even in scenes where it would not make sense, like with the mummy head. In fact, Guillermo del Toro was making an adaptation of "At the mountains..." and had to stop when he learnt about Prometheus. I hope he'll continue it.

again, thank you for uploading this

there is apparently a mystery about the guy playing the alien, bolaji badejo, the fox tried to find him for alien 20th and 30th anniversaries celebrations and he was not found....

It's weird, moray eels have the jaw inside the jaw like the xenomorph does.

They wouldn't be around to dislike if they had been.

Her death scene is very haunting, probably the most haunting of the entire film, because you don't see anything, you just are forced to listen. I was a kid when I saw this. #scarredforlife

Nachos XD The SJ was a symbol of an inhuman lovecraftian intelligence from a region so different that it's inhabitants were... just alien to our concepts of morality. A symbol of the oddness of a universe that doesn't care about our beliefs, where humans were ignorant and insignificant; now it's a symbol of humanity and their beliefs (creators) as the center of the universe. I would have liked the new concept if it wasn't just a human god in a Cthulhu suit. Just treason, in my humble oppinion.

Unbelieveable. didn't you read the 'making of' book? I'll find you a link. How much sweat do you lose under the hot studio lights when animating your CG beast? How many retakes do you have to make? do you have to deal with skin irritations from your materials? yopu don't have any experience with any of this.

Well, the great Cthulhu is more or less the result of crossing a schrimp and an octopus, mainly because Lovecraft himself disliked ANYTHING that would come out of the sea. Deep ones are also part of this sea-like hate. Having said this, i too expected more "mythos" in Cloverfield. Nevertheless it could be listed in a "mythos lore" movies list. I mean, the monster of cloverfield could very well be an stellar spawn of some kind of Old One. Could'nt it?

Actually, it does. Nothing that can ever be done on a computer is going to match the difficulty of stop motion animating a rubber and wire creature on a table and making it work. There's no UNDO button, for one thing. Just a month's animation down the tubes if you screw up. And the movies with the best SFX start with a practical effect and enhance it with CG anyway. But let's just drop it, we aren't going to agree. Enjoy the movies.

So the alien "design" came from a guys nightmare that was on crack? haha i just love it :)

Thanks ripley8resurrection for uploading these- I really enjoyed viewing them :-)

i actually liked both AVP and AVPR,the problem is the Alien not being scary anymore as its been done to death...

Whoa the xenomorph is way scarier without the dome

What if, just by coincidence, this thing is ACTUALLY alive out there....somewhere...waiting to be discovered by future human explorers 😐

that would be so random! I would have loved to see that!

Up till now I never noticed that the Alien had a human skull inside that dome on the front. Quite spooky to think of it that way now.

The way blade moves in blade 2, or the way spiderman slings and flips about i just think is down right comical. I find them to be too bendy. Not the most current examples that come to mind, but they're ones that illustrate what i mean.

It would have been awesome if they had used the translucent skull dome.

the alien films were way better, but it was nice to see how the xenomorph alien was created, because that is one thing that has always got me stumped

04:09 looks like the human alien from alien resurrection guess that was their inspiration ?

Ridley Scott said once, he prefers the "sensible" option of real craft instead of CGI because when the actors act and interact with CGI and have been put in to a green or interact with things in various ways, they're basically guessing. So, during post production when the film need to be seamlessly edited together it ends up costing more money going back to correct the mistakes/fault than if you had just started using the physical thing/environment in the first place.

It was the first jandra that had union space workers that might have been city workers from New York. It was the first honest idea about how people might be able to work in space. The dark overlay was how the employer, Weyland Yutani might want to obtain the find at whatever the cost, and the story that this level corporate greed might be the most dangerous way to treat an organism like the Alien. The wrong kind of organism could wipe out your whole population in a very horrible way.

True. But partly because directors simply didn't attempt what couldn't be done with CGI or they did but it simply didn't look as convincing. Take the full body shots of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park for example, just in terms of the animations they look better then what the go motion dinosaurs would've looked like. Or look at the T-1000 in Terminator 2, Draco from Dragon heart or the pseudopod in The Abyss, i don't think those would've looked as good as they did with traditional methods.

And we LOVE him for it. :D

Wuah,this is Gigers House? Cool Chair.

C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser gates? What ?..You've never Been? -Bro -you've got to get out more !

I know practical effects are more difficult than CG effects. Look at hollywood - no shortage of CG artists. Why? How many stop motion animators/monster makers can you name? I do CG and practical effects - and animation. Knowing materials for a rubber monster is essential -it is not as simple as saying 'latex'. You also have to know what to use for the molds, and so on. Obviously, we are both passionate about special effects, which can only be a good thing. Keep it civil? CG has won the field!

@okuma0kuma Necronom IV isn't xenomorph. It's creature which was basis in Alien's design - in fact, Scott told Giger to create monster based on Necronom.IV. By the way, I was talking about inner mouth, though his head has penis form as well.

Wow...cool info

There is hate against Prometheus, yes, but please note there are also many well explained reviews that just show the flaws of the film. There's no need for hate, the movie can be criticised using logic and observation. I specially recommend the article called "100 glaring logical issues with Prometheus". And don't forget the people who didn't like the film because of the new Space Jockey. You know, some wanted an alien/extraterrestrial, after 30 years of good comics about elefantine aliens.

So 10:30 is why Ripley says... MOTTTTHHHHER!!!! I've turned the cooling units back on! MOTHERRRR!!!! Youuuu Biiitttchhhhh!!!!!

Giger is a genius

Love watching these featurettes, I still need to get the Alien Blu-Ray collection though. :\

00:40 "he is VIGO"

Rubbing and making it glister~ 10:44

h.r. gigers vision is terrifying and disturbing

Carlo Rambaldi sounds so much like Bela Lugosi. Dracula vs Alien.

Really amazing movie.

you know i think almost all the shots with the alien extending its tounge could easily have been done by a handheld head with less complicated controls since its so close up

It's kinda sad that they changed the look so much. This alien is how the "autor" choose it to look. Nothing goes beyond that.

Just curious, what didn't you like about Prometheus? (Besides plotholes, they will be answered in the sequel).

CGI looks as good as the person gives the effort to make it look.

The new 'THING' is an example i can best think of... you just know its CGI. same with any other similar film, and for me personally I don't get as engrossed as I could do if these things were some how physical. But like I said, with things like motion its probably just not possible to do. I have no idea - i can only say what i prefer aesthetically.

What's with the Promethius hate? It opens the Alien movies! In the first one, they reach the mining planet because of a distress call. In the end of Promethius, the first Xenomorph comes as a mix of the giant facehugger and the Engineer. The distress call was made at the end of the movie. Just my opinion, but Promethius was an amazing prequel to Alien.

It is from the Alien Quadrilogy box set.

@Vladdyboy thank you very much, now i will also have nightmares about a alien on a sving in the park!