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Swiss Public Television reports that the surrealist painter and Science Fiction Hall of Fame honoree H.R. Giger, creator of the Alien design used in Ridley Scott's 1980 movie as well as numerous other works of art and design, has died at the age of 74 due to injuries sustained in a fall.
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(Score: 2) by tynin on Tuesday May 13 2014, @07:11PM
...what made Alien so good (and the sequels so mediocre) was the cockroach-like "I almost just saw it" way the Alien was filmed. You hardly ever get a good look at the thing, but the glimpses you see turn your stomach.
Off-topic, but I still wanted to comment on that sentence. That is exactly what made the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre so amazing. They show you no gore, but what they suggest is happening is nothing short of mind boggling horror. They keep everything just slightly off screen and let your mind, the best artistic tool of all, left to paint the scenes that you just KNOW are unfolding. I cannot think of very many films that pull this stunt off, but the effect when done right is seemingly better than the real thing.