He’s best remembered for stretching our minds with his stretched-head design for the creature in 1979’s original – very original – Alien. 35 years and many spin-offs later, Giger’s ...

It's no easy thing to give birth to a monster – ask Mary Shelley. The late artist HR Giger did just that with his landmark work on Ridley Scott's celebrated sci-fi film, Alien. Giger’s hideous ...

“I always wanted my alien to be a very beautiful thing, something aesthetic,” Giger later recalled. “A monster isn’t just something disgusting; it can have a kind of beauty.” It’s one ...

Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger is dead, Swiss media reports. The 74-year-old painter, sculptor and set designer died after a fall. Giger won an Oscar for special effects for the 1979 film “Alien.” ...

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 ...

An Alien alien. Photo: Timo Newton-Syms on Flickr Advertisement The creepy critter is stationed above the entrance of the H.R. Giger Museum, a dystopic trove of paintings, sculpture, and furniture ...

That’s the famous question posed by Ash (Ian Holm) in one of the many tense scenes of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien ... is on view in “H. R. Giger and Mire Lee,” an unlikely show ...

Harry commissioned Giger a couple of years after he achieved international fame for designing the phantasmagoric “xenomorph” in the movie Alien for ... of Harry in front of a microphone.

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 ...

The Alien creature was based on a Giger print named “Necronom IV”, and marked a major departure from the clichéd green men often seen in movies until then. Giger’s alien was androgynous ...