Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Following the demise of Captain Arthur Dallas, who went looking for the growing Xenomorph inside the Nostromo’s ventilation shafts, with the intent of leading into, and out of, the airlock, the story ...

'Alien' works because the design of the Xenomorph creature is so fascinatingly hideous. Director Ridley Scott reached out to a famous artist to get the design in the film. “The guy who brought him to ...

The original Xenomorph from Ridley Scott's Alien was nicknamed "Big Chap" and still remains one of the most terrifying creatures in sci-fi horror history. Designed by surrealist artist H.R. Giger, Big ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...