some strange things in alien

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MemberOvomorphApril 16, 20121843 Views15 Repliesmy friend John Harris's brother in law worked on the original alien movie as a set supervisor. there were a few deleted and censored scenes he told us about. the resin that crew members are secreted to the landing legs is dna changing and turns members into egg shaped cocoons, it was also supposed to be hand spun from the spineret tubes on the aliens back but they couldn't get consistency right and the bit where the alien lowers down behind brett, had the alien dangling from resin from its back tubes just like a spider on a thread next to the hanging landing legs. It was too expensive and hard to make work. One last thing, Giger wanted to put maggots under the latex dome of the alien head to make the skin crawl and move but Scott thought it was a step too far.
the set already stank from rotting cow bones used in the space jockey scene