Vagina Dentata!

I guess deliberate. but that's just me.

Does anyone have a pic?

All of Giger's Alien work was sexual in nature. It's quite overt. Not under-toned at all so yes, I would say it is deliberate.

[img]http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/starparadise86/p13010.jpg[/img]

LOL

Teeth and Vaginas never go well together.

Yes all of giegers works is mega sexually driven - the 'alien' facehugger is very viginal in design - kinda like a flattened out one! - the alien head more penis like!

This is the kiss at the end of the dance [img]http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/starparadise86/trilobite_defeating_engineer.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/starparadise86/hugger.gif[/img]

finally, thx Shambala.

I'd say it was notionally deliberate - in terms of being heavily, yet indirectly, suggestive. I'd also say that, somehow, that kind of nudging only makes it seem extremely obvious and ham-fisted. Seems to me, Alien/Giger managed to communicate and force you to acknowledge a sense of nausea that you perhaps couldn't really put a name to - and perhaps didn't really want to: it was just obviously something that spoke to your subconscious and was clearly to do with mucus; and wetness; and reproduction; and penetration........and all of that particular kind of nameless dread was achieved without resorting to showing you a toothy vagina on top of a penis. I'd suggest that's exactly why it [i]was[/i] achieved.

you're welcome man ;)

shambhala, man, that kicks face!

There has always been a heavy sexual tone surrounding the Alien movies. I am referring to the first two films. Even in Alien I still remember when Lambert was cornered by the Xenemorph. She was crying her ass out as we saw the Xenos tail began to rise up between her legs. Now if that ain't sexual. Then I don't know what is.

@ Rubirosa exactly, the alien movies have a sexual tone surrounding them, hence my question: did they make this descision on purpose, or is it just sth we fans notice and the director of photography or whoever is going all like :'whut?'

Well, the vagina mouth of the Hammerpede is more similar to the mouth of a facehugger but this other creature (aka cuddles) well is something different...I think that Giger design the mural and decors of the pyramid but the creatures were designed by Carlos Huante or someone else... PS: But still looking like a V*g*n* Dentata anyway LOL

and in the designs of Dan O'Bannon for Star beast...the facehugger was more like a cephalopod... [img]http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh517/starparadise86/facehugger.jpg[/img]

starbeast? that movie ever released ?

"Star beast" is the original name of the 1979 project but thanks to Ridley and Giger (fortunately) the final version was Alien.

@Sky look at the prototype script for Alien in the spartacus [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/3865]Thread[/url]

and another from [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/4585]Sparty[/url]

The xeno drool in [i]Alien[/i] is [url=https://www.k-y.com/K-Y_Jelly]KY[/url]. I think the references are pretty overt across the board.

Ah, thanks for the pointers.

and the nightmares ensue

This makes me feel... uncomfortable... in a guy kind of way...

Someone had to bring it up.

The Cinefex article on Prometheus has a quote from Conor O'Sullivan ... talking about how people have tried to copy Giger, but "missed the subtlety and detail, and the morbid fasciantion with death, aliens, and sex. We tried to go back to that" He goes on to say their influences were also Rodin and William Blake (and folks on this message board have posted about the Blake-ness of the film!) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Blake http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rodin

From the image posted by shambala, isn't it odd for such cobra style creature to stand there by bending? I found it that way.