Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger who designed the monster and revolutionary sci-fi sets for the film "Alien" has died, his museum said on Tuesday. He was 74. Giger, who was born ...

BERLIN (AP) - The Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator ...

Behind two of cinema’s most iconic extraterrestrials stands a single creative genius whose mechanical wizardry breathed life into both nightmares and dreams. While H.R. Giger’s biomechanical artwork ...

It turns out that the already frightening Facehugger xenomorph from director Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic "Alien" was actually scaled back a bit from its original design by artist H.R.