Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph ...

Ridley Scott’s award-winning sci-fi horror film 'Alien' almost settled on a different design for the Xenomorph. Then came H.R. Giger.

Why H. R. Giger’s alien was so strange. During a 2009 interview with Time Out, Giger was asked why his art is so gooey.He admitted that he was obsessed with skulls and mummies as a child. During ...

No wonder Giger’s art worked its eldritch spell on Scott during the pre-production of Alien. Once the director peeked inside the artist’s 1977 compendium Necronomicon , the images stuck in his ...