As Ian Holm tells the crew of the Nostromo before sputtering out of juice, the Alien is the "perfect organism". "It's structural perfection is matched only by its hostility … I admire its purity." He ...

When news broke last year that veteran film-maker Ridley Scott was to build on his iconic slasher-in-space film Alien more than 30 years on, reaction was divided fairly evenly between healthy ...

Apart from Ridley Scott, there is one other man who's ideas and designs are synonymous with the "Alien" franchise, H.R Giger. Having the honor of being credited with creating one of films most ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. It contains spoilers for Alien: Covenant. If Prometheus strongly hinted at the fact, Alien: Covenant pretty much confirms it – Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels are ...

The Swiss artist who won an Oscar for creating the nightmarish creature from Sir Ridley's Scott's seminal 1979 horror died in hospital on Monday. A spokesperson for Mr Giger's museum in Gruyere said ...

The Oscar-winning artist who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said today. Hans Giger died in a ...

Swiss artist Hans Ruedi Giger, better known as HR Giger, has died at the age of 74 from injuries sustained in a fall. The celebrated artist was best known for inspiring and working on the designs of ...

Surrealist artist HR Giger died this week, leaving behind a legacy of nightmares that made him a beloved figure of the horror, art and film communities. Giger's works depicted a horrifying marriage of ...

Giger said he was inspired by his dreams and nightmares H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist artist whose works of sexual-industrial imagery and design of the eponymous creature in the “Alien” movies were ...

The Swiss artist, H.R. Giger, who designed the monster in the horror film "Alien", has died aged 74 after a fall. He won an Oscar for his work on Ridley Scott's "Alien" in 1980. The BBC's Lizo Mzimba ...

The Swiss artist and designer rewrote the rules on movie monsters, which makes Quentin Cooper wonder why we’ve always thought aliens look like humans? Surrealist, sculptor and set designer HR Giger ...

The man whose surrealist artwork led to the creation of Ridley Scott's Alien has died. HR Giger, who was 74, died in hospital in Zurich after suffering injuries from a fall. Giger, who was born in ...