1:54 (throws Parker against some wall pipes) Xenomorph: "OH SHIT! Are you ok?"

@NoMoreNever

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!😂 The Xenomorph got a bit too excited while filming and ran over to check if he was okay.

@godinacape

Жыл бұрын

Actually that didn't end up in the final cut 😁

@BrucknerMotet

Жыл бұрын

The posture and hand placement of the Xeno bending over Parker definitely has a bit of Beaver Cleaver "Gee Whiz Mister ... are you all right?" Too much of a Good Samaritan pose, so it had to get cut.

@michaelottway6553

Жыл бұрын

also a wire is visible

@jamescaliendo1030

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelottway6553 yep..good eye

Never has a character in a movie convinced me so much that they were genuinely terrified. Veronica Cartwright was completely convincing and kudos to her on her performance.

@chrisdunne8274

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯 agree with you there...she looked completely terrified, what a performance 👏

@donjohn2695

6 ай бұрын

She brilliant in alien and invasion of the body snatchers

@Master-Works

4 ай бұрын

I didn’t think the movie was that scary, and the paying was off. Actually, could have been better if it was shorter

@bartsullivan4866

2 ай бұрын

She did amazing work in Invasion of the Body Snatchers as well.

@Peplinsky

2 ай бұрын

​@@Master-Works hey dude, i watch this movie in 1980 when im only 7 years old. This was scary. sorry

Ridley Scott was right to show less of the Alien. The most frightening thing about this movie is the fact that you never see the Alien running and chasing people, it knows it doesn't have to. It takes its time and toys with its victims.

@Morris1581

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes less is more!

@ec6843

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't toy with its victims: that implies ideation of behalf of of the alien, which is directly in opposition to the purity of the animal's instincts and ferocity (Ash's words).

@GlennBroadway

Жыл бұрын

It isn’t toying with anyone. It’s surviving. it didn’t ask to be trapped on that ship. The alien isn’t hunting the crew. The crew are hunting it.

@ec6843

Жыл бұрын

​@@GlennBroadway Found the xenomorph sympathizer.

@paulymac5513

Жыл бұрын

Yes, like Spielberg did in Jaws. Now a days CGI can make monsters seem real and not like you're looking at a guy in a suit.

I always hate how Parker sacrificed himself for nothing, trying to keep the xeno focused on killing him long enough for Lambert to run away. Even his last words implored her "Get out of the room!" and she just stands there frozen with fear.

@luizmartin2007

11 ай бұрын

Ah!

@WBGT007

10 ай бұрын

That's because it's the natural reaction of terror or dread. She's absolutely petrified. If anything he ruined his chances by not just blasting the flame thrower.

@michaelgrey7854

10 ай бұрын

Much like a Woman about to be violated!

@StuckonStupid84

5 ай бұрын

​@@michaelgrey7854 Ironically, the sounds she made when the alien was killing her made me think she was being violated.

@LandersWorkshop

3 ай бұрын

To be honest it looked like she was cornered.

I loved how Lambert actually saw the Alien for the first time, but being extremely anxious and terrified by it, she went into denial for a few seconds, and only after she was completely overwhelmed by horror did she turn around.

@xanshen9011

Жыл бұрын

Right? I think she saw the shadow of the alien but mustve assumed it was Parker because of the humanoid shape and so she briefly glanced at it but was in shock at what she was seeing. It wasnt until she fully turned around did she realize that she was cornered and looked like she was about to throw up.

@kirk1968

11 ай бұрын

I saw this in 1979 and have never realized that! You're right, she only saw the chestburster version but not the fully matured version until that moment. Horrific.

@patriceaqa288

11 ай бұрын

@@kirk1968 everyone has that response which I thought was a brilliant touch to the film. Brett thinks he's looking for a little scurrying creature and is overwhelmed when he sees it. Parker only knows "whatever it was it was big" Dallas has no idea what he's facing in the vent, Lambert is overwhelmed when she sees it, and so is Parker "oh my god" and even Ripley doesn't see the alien until the shuttle sequence. The element of the unknown amongst the crew was so well done

@kirk1968

11 ай бұрын

@@patriceaqa288 Excellent observations! Dallas...oh man. Parker said "it was big" as you said, but that's all he really had to go on. Turns around in the vent, sees a brief flash of silver teeth and gets a hearty welcome to getting cocooned.

@ekathe85

11 ай бұрын

You might be right, but I'm not sure I like it better. It plays like one of those delayed reaction gags in a Looney Tunes cartoon

The sounds of Lambert’s distress is more terrifying than anything you could be shown.

@Filthy_Larry

2 жыл бұрын

Lambert was being poked by the scorpion tail. That confirms how the xenomorph turns people into eggs.

@Morris1581

Жыл бұрын

I like the sound the xeno makes so much "ggrrrrr bbbbrrrr" so scary!

@alexshank1414

Жыл бұрын

Just hearing the panting, hyperventilating, gasping for air, and scream is terrifying. Visually leaving to one’s imagination what happened to Lambert is genius horror method.

@racializedkanadian

Жыл бұрын

Sound design for this and blade runner were PHENOMENAL.

@LandersWorkshop

Жыл бұрын

It's almost like it's laughing as it rapes/kills poor Lambert!

The Lambert Death Sounds & Screams are still one of the scariest things I'll ever remember.........and then to hear silence over the intercom is just as chilling

@summer7034

5 жыл бұрын

and the alien's roar

@chagadiel

5 жыл бұрын

@@summer7034 i do not think it roared. apart from its pained screeched at the end its relatively silent. I Liked what i thought was a rattling sound it made as if excited but its part of the soundtrack score.

@toebeans31

5 жыл бұрын

That's what always scared me about this scene, I remember in the 80's watching this as a child seeing Lamberts frozen petrified horror was just amazing the actress did a hell of a job showing her fear. And those sounds you heard when you saw Ripley running down the hall trying to find them really sent chills down your spine and that blood curdling screech at the end? They sounded incoherent and animalistic it's no wonder people asumed she was raped by the alien, I mean look at the how the cresture attacks, they don't kill they breed so, it makes a lot of sense, especially since Lambert's death was off screen

@AbyssalSchmitt

5 жыл бұрын

@@toebeans31 def agree and to show Parker while Lambert's foot was hanging Ripleys face said it all.

@promnightdumpsterbaby9553

5 жыл бұрын

While ripley is frantically running ,yup. Awesome 😁 greet scene.

Alien was one of the first movies I remember that broke the rules about who survives. Many people were shocked when Dallas died early on, as it was assumed 'the Captain' would live (and probably be the one to kill the alien). Having the black guy and two women as the last survivors was as 'alien' a concept as the actual xenomorph!

@thievingcthulhu8632

2 жыл бұрын

dont forget about Night of the Living Dead.

@SStupendous

2 жыл бұрын

@@thievingcthulhu8632 Oh yeah! At that ending, we're left wondering if the guy shot the black dude because he genuinely thought he was a zombie, or if he did it because he was black.

@thievingcthulhu8632

2 жыл бұрын

@@SStupendous yea, amazingly dark ending.

@SStupendous

2 жыл бұрын

@@thievingcthulhu8632 I mean, it was in black and white so it had to be dark

@Loner-Wolf

2 жыл бұрын

Also in Dawn of the Dead the survivers are a black man and white woman.

Give me "a man in a rubber suit" to covenant's CG any day

@michaelboyes9635

5 ай бұрын

word!

@coolmuzt

5 ай бұрын

Cast Javier Botet as the Xenomorph in a new movie!

@adammclaughlin845

3 ай бұрын

Covenant was terrible beyond measure.

@THEremiXFACTOR

3 ай бұрын

The CGI alien in Covenant, jumping around like a cartoon character, was awful. It really was just like a video game. They first did a full CGI alien in Alien Resurrection, it didn't look too bad but it's not threatening. Only the first film makes the alien seem really imposing and intimidating.

@k1productions87

2 ай бұрын

Its not the fact it was CGI that was the problem, it was the excessive movement. CG is amazing when used properly, just like model work and a man in a rubber suit. But, improper use makes it look stupid,... just like the crab walk. You have to use the tools available to you properly and effectively. That includes deciding what NOT to show on camera.

So much of this movie's horror is derived from how the xenomorph often just appears in a scene. No abrupt jumpscare, no loud music stinger, just the thing existing and doing the only thing it knows to do. Sure, there is loud music, and there are jumpscares, but they're few and far between. Often the xenomorph just silently appears or blends into the background, like how it was hanging from the chains on the ceiling when it's first revealed.

@TheLambdaTeam

Жыл бұрын

Dallas' death has a loud scream and a jumpscare.

@anonymousskunk

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLambdaTeam For all the jumpscares in the film, the xenomorph is only involved in two of them. The one with it catching Dallas, and then on the shuttle as Ripley is getting ready to go into cryosleep for the journey home. Every other time the xenomorph was revealed it was done slowly and with none of its prey aware until it was too late. Jonesy had more jumpscares than the xenomorph.

1:55 "Oh shit man, I'm so sorry are you alright?"

@Knull_thegodhost

2 ай бұрын

Here, let me give you a kiss ;P

Lambert's off screen death is the most disturbing. The deadliest tool in a sci-fi horror is our imagination. Course we can't imagine what happened.

@jackoneill8585

5 жыл бұрын

sure you can.. the alien was moving his tail up her back side i belive he penitrated her pussy or asshole with it and shoved it all the way up to her mouth where it came out... a most horrible death meaning the alien enjoyed it

@robflores3298

5 жыл бұрын

Jerry Stillwell...the scene with the tail going through the legs is actually from Brett’s extended death scene.

@suzycreamcheesez4371

5 жыл бұрын

You sound like you're in junior high lol! @@jackoneill8585

@blatow

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely true. People today dont seem to have the imagination or attention span, and need it all spelling out to them. It's what you don't see what scares you.

@superheavyxd2684

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was the best moment! I really hated her as a character! As long as she was alive she was just such a annoying bitch! Just crying and complaining all the time. I haven't actually seen the movie in a while but I'm pretty sure she was this annoying so I did not and I mean did NOT feel bad for her, in fact I was happy when she died! I understand she was scared but the bitch got to have some basic survival skills and understand that she would have a better chance of survival if she had just grown a pair of balls and shut the fuck up!

I'm sorry, but that little crab walk takes away all the suspense for me.

@MiloDC

6 жыл бұрын

It looks ridiculous.

@qcdoomqc

6 жыл бұрын

@@MiloDC which is why it was cut :p

@romanl9943

5 жыл бұрын

Idk , it has that somewhat disturbing feel to it

@Nathan-ti9pm

5 жыл бұрын

1:00 I swear the Alien smiles at her... that’s pretty freaken creepy

@superheavyxd2684

5 жыл бұрын

It looks so goofy and off character..... is that the right word? Either way why would a Xenomorph do that? That doesn't make sense 😂 Was this just some random comic relief so we would forget how scary the Xenomorph is for a second?

Interesting scene, but it also demonstrates how important editing is to a film!

@satnav1980

5 жыл бұрын

You figure that out yourself?

@jacobsaccount9353

2 жыл бұрын

@@satnav1980 no he had my help! So I should get some credit for this discovery!

@NowLedgeOutpost

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobsaccount9353 yes, you deserve it, both of you.

@WiredLain_

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobsaccount9353 yeah but i helped you, so i should also get some credit!

@vimfuego8827

Жыл бұрын

@@WiredLain_ I invented film editing, so there.

Proof that what is heard can be more terrifying than what is seen. Incredible acting.

Bolaji Badejo's slow, elegant movements made the creature so much more terrifying. He had a dancer's grace.

@jaelie8398

6 жыл бұрын

Brin Hauptmann And this was the only role he ever played

@brinhauptmann8133

6 жыл бұрын

Even with the rough footage and unfinished fx he was terrifying. That shot where he rises up...aghhhh...

@Tyler-ll2ic

5 жыл бұрын

She*

@kendranannettej.jeffery8925

5 жыл бұрын

Veronica Cartwright talked about how the person in the Alien suit took ballet, yoga&tai~chai(hope I spelled it right) in order to move so gracefully on the behind the scenes DVD. I recommend getting the Alien Quadriligy because it's got two versions of each movie plus behind the scenes

@spudy1216

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tyler-ll2ic Bolaji was a dude

This is interesting but the theatrical edit is definitely better.

@offmarketinvestments9770

5 жыл бұрын

wow.....that version looked bad..you can tell it's a man in a suite..so glad they cut it and shown what we saw at the cinema.

@suzycreamcheesez4371

5 жыл бұрын

suit Unless you're talking about music. Fix it!!

@saltwatercb

5 жыл бұрын

@scarsun; @offmarket: I totally agree. I wish I didn't see it! It really looks so hokey. Imagine if they had left this rubbish in--the movie would not be considered the masterpiece it is deservedly known as now.

@jaelie8398

5 жыл бұрын

Offmarket investments Exactly. Jaws took the same approach. The more shark you see, the more you see a mechanical object

@SadAndVengeful

5 жыл бұрын

@@offmarketinvestments9770 Oh, give me a break. The cut when it was getting up to show how big it was was great.

I find this one scene to be more genuinely terrifying than all of Prometheus.

@terminator572

5 жыл бұрын

*sip* yep, theys don't make them movies like what when

@Wayner71

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on.

@endredankay2555

5 жыл бұрын

And Covenant. Together.

@ivoryscott1162

4 жыл бұрын

🤣😆😂

@M60gunner1971

4 жыл бұрын

Prometheus was pure shit.

Some of these wides really dissipate any tension: far too much shown and far too slowly. The late, great Terry Rawlings did a magnificent job with Scott's coverage and really ratcheted up the tension in the Theatrical cut, and it's in no small part down to him that ALIEN remains such a terrific experience after four decades.

@__-kb9no

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that they really dragged out the scenes a bit too much. Killed the suspense sometimes

@kitec

Жыл бұрын

It was the alien doing a weird "crabwalk" for me. It looked too human, and not in a scary way- more a "look at this goofy bastard" way.

@chasam1234

9 ай бұрын

RS isn't all that his movies are full of mistakes I feel for TR has to finish these movies into something half decent .. god-awful Prometheus and the recent Covenant lol

@outpost31mac

2 ай бұрын

@@chasam1234 Every film ever made has mistakes, that's just the nature of the art. You make it sound like Ridley Scott has a corner on the market, which is really disengenuous. BTW, Terry Rawlings didn't edit 'Prometheus' or 'Covenant'.

The scream she makes at the end..... if that didn't terrify you. The (classic) Xenomorph is literally one of the most terrifying creatures in horror history.

One of the best musical scores ever! Even on these deleted scenes, it really creates an atmosphere.

the way parker charges the alien..... what a guy

@maestroclassico5801

2 ай бұрын

Parker was right all along.

@stuartriddell2461

2 ай бұрын

Parker was the most heroic character in the movie. Fighting the xeno hand to hand, balls of steel.

@TheFirstCurse1

7 күн бұрын

He seemed like a real piece of crap at first but when it came down to it he was by far the most heroic and sensible of the crew. I mean he arguably could have ended it all right there. He just had to hold down a trigger. But his friend was in the line of fire and petrified so he literally charged a 7 foot tall perfect killing machine to try and buy her time. Absolute f***ing beast of a man. He was a hero through and through.

I know a lot of this footage wouldn't have worked if it was used in final cut, but it's good to see Bolaji Badejo in the costume! One of the greatest villain performances ever!

Veronica Cartwright makes the scene. Her acting and that grimace of pure terror is what makes the scene completely believable even when the creature is barely shown.

@DouglasVishalBrook

10 ай бұрын

She was amazing in this film - just so shockingly realistic in her unbridled terror - like a normal person in that situation.

@martinhsl68hw

9 ай бұрын

I've only just realized that she was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

@norikotakaya14292

9 ай бұрын

​@@martinhsl68hwHer sister is Angela Cartwright, who played Penny Robinson on Lost in Space.

@warrenbridges1891

3 ай бұрын

@@norikotakaya14292 Veronica was also Rod Taylor's little sister in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds".

The screams over the radio is so freaking cinematic its like the perfect way to keep it ambiguous as to whats happening to lambert, the fast paced breathing, her moans, then turned to screams, it really makes the alien or at least the death it gave her , that much more terrifying and weird. We just dont know what happened to her. "Death by blade, death by crushing, in the end you still die" -ainz ool goan

@jamesconkey1480

10 ай бұрын

Yes we do

@Slazmoservicing4209

5 ай бұрын

Some say she died of a heart attack - caused by fear...

@David-nd4to

3 ай бұрын

The implication people got from this scene is the alien raped her

@jaconova

24 күн бұрын

@@jamesconkey1480 no, we don´t know the actual modus operandi or the details of what happened to Lambert. All speculation.

This scene never did play out with the tension of Brett getting knocked off, which is one of the best scenes in cinema history. It did however show how physically superior the alien was and good editing. Unless you saw the film in its theatrical release in 79' you can never understand how unnerving it was.

@zariqueen

5 жыл бұрын

My family and i went to the theater to see it in '79... Scared shitless.

@Josh-fp2qn

Жыл бұрын

You are so lucky.

@PeterBrown-mz4nv

3 ай бұрын

Also the volume. This was the loudest movie I ever saw and it added immensely to the fear dynamic.

@jameszabinski3558

2 ай бұрын

​@@zariqueenMy mother took me and my brother to see this when we were kids. I think she regretted it to her grave, but I thought the original was great, the second even better

They could’ve kept that whole Parker sequence. The Alien’s hand on Parker’s face showed its strength and was terrifying.

Per the final edit, though visible in this one, I always thought the strange 'embracing' gesture he does in front of Lambert (2:39) was very odd and creepy. Almost like it has a sort of physical ritual before killing, as if it's taking its time to go through the performance 'steps' before attacking her -- unlike how it killed Parker quickly and brutally. Agreed: Lambert's broadcast screams of terror that are horrifically cut off remains terrifying to hear even after all these years. Such a great film. Still one of the best movie monsters ever created.

@tomheaney2135

Жыл бұрын

@Andrew Wolf it's even more disturbing as in the full screenplay it actually rapes her before killing her and although this scene was left out of the final cut it kinda indicates that's what it's gonna do!!

@marianodenisvega4323

10 ай бұрын

Alien: oh yeah babe! come here and give daddy some sugar!............THAT'S A PENIS!

@nocturnalrecluse1216

9 ай бұрын

​@tomheaney2135 yup. It was said that the man who originally hosted the alien had a thing for Lambert and that's why the alien raped her because part of his DNA was in the alien.

@chasam1234

9 ай бұрын

"Killed Parker quickly" lol took him yonks Parker had about two minutes to fire it up and did nothing stupid film

Keep forgetting how scary and disturbing this movie is.Frickin Awesome.

Rip Yaphet Koto. Legend

So that's why Parker was all bloodied before the alien killed him, there was a deleted shot of it crushing his head against the wall before.

@horrormoviedrama1724

5 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered that my self over the last 40 years!

@BtotheCtotheH

5 жыл бұрын

Parker being knocked against the wall by the alien's tail is in the final cut and easily explains it.

@HailAnts

4 жыл бұрын

What are you watching?! The Alien kills Parker by slamming its second mouth right into his brains. Was always like this..

Rewatched this movie recently. Freakiest part of the whole thing for me (and in this clip) is when Ripley hears Lambert dying through the intercom. It sounds like it takes forever... what is the xenomorph doing to her...? [shudders]

@aydencostello9932

4 жыл бұрын

Some things should be left unanswered.

@vinyl6668

4 жыл бұрын

Trying to hug it looks like.

@Robert_Douglass

2 жыл бұрын

We know her clothes had been torn off when she died...

@BurtonMKelso

2 жыл бұрын

According to the novelization it tries to carry both Lambert and Parker into the air shafts at the same time

@BurtonMKelso

2 жыл бұрын

@@Robert_Douglass looks like someone’s seen Galaxy of Terror too many times

Love the little crab walk 😂 and how it took her ages to see the xeno

@ittupelkele9918

6 жыл бұрын

I said wtf at that point

@Chocobear555

5 жыл бұрын

I keep thinking to myself: How on Earth did it take her so long to see that massive, terrifying alien?

@ADAPTATION7

4 жыл бұрын

@@Chocobear555 Well, it was dark and the Alien was black so..

@pierremontparnasse

2 жыл бұрын

I believe this whole footage is a combo of director-view and main cameras? The wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are additional ones for the director? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view and avoid creating a shadow when it wasn't the time yet? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". Think about it! I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.

@pierremontparnasse

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chocobear555 I believe that wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are from a director-view camera? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.

1:55 “Sorry mate, I was out of order there...😔”

I always love how u hear the alien “roar” right before lambert screams.

Definitely for the best that this was cut - although the scene right at the start where the xenomorph is perched watching Lambert is scary af and should’ve been used imo. The crab walk afterwards is just ridiculous though

@mariluchavarria4795

3 ай бұрын

Pero como ya se mostraba como humano, como encubo al cuerpo del que murió, igual la 3ra cuando se metió al perro tomo forma de este

@Feyvolta

Ай бұрын

Agreed, it just sitting there watching with an odd curiosity is creepy as hell. Like it WANTS to know she's seen it before it attacks so she dies frightened.

@nopcshere6097

18 күн бұрын

Agree 100%. They could have kept that scene where the Alien is first seen in shadow only, then the one where it is simply sitting there watching Lambert. And keep that scene when the Alien stands to it's full, menacing 2 meter height! The only part that should've been cut is that 'crab walk' scene.

What makes this particularly scary is knowing that Parker himself is a huge guy (6ft 4", bulky and brawny) and even he was overpowered easily by the alien. If a guy like him was no match for the alien, what chance did Ripley have? That's when this movie truly became terrifying.

@angel91485

Жыл бұрын

yes definitely agreed with you, but as much as this movie is gold, this scene kind of like the least logical for them to do..Both Parker and Ripley knew how strong the Alien was when it carried Brett upward to the airshafts, so separating with only 3 of you left, seem very unreasonable to me knowing how it simply overpowered the others..though yes, the creators need to find a way to kill Lambert and Parker, and maybe this is the best they can think of, given also the cinematic effect required.

@cybernautadventurer

Жыл бұрын

@@angel91485 you know what would make an interesting fight? A fight between a Xenomorph and an Engineer. Creature against its own father.

@chasam1234

9 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Parker isn't ruthless had all the time in the world to zap it and just gawped.

@andrivionascimento277

7 ай бұрын

Parker has 6’3 height .

Alien is the greatest horror film ever made and one of the things that made it so great is the "less is more" concept Ridley Scott employed in the final editing for the theatrical release. Not seeing much of the alien made it seem more like a stealthy predator which you don't detect until it is too late. And Lambert's unseen death transmitted over the intercom is the stuff of nightmares.

1:45 Holy crap this shot is brilliant. I wish this close up was kept in the film.

Ridley Scott said that the reason he disliked horror films was "because in the end it’s always been a man in a rubber suit" and that his solution was to show only enough to drive the imagination. This extended scene does the opposite of that: it shows the man in the rubber suit.

@gkroll8467

11 ай бұрын

When Ripley finds them dead Parker is sitting on the floor head busted open and lamberts foot is hanging at the left of screen did she get so scared her boots came off? please explain since the cocoon scene was cut from the theater version and wasn’t shown until the special edition way after Cameron made the sequel did he get to see the footage and still went ahead with his version of the queen or he never saw the cut footage and still did his own version

I find this even more terrifying, the way it moved in the seated position. Creepy.

Almost unbelievable, how fortunate Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) has been in her acting career! Honing her craft alongside Tippi Hedren, under the watchful eye of Alfred Hitchcock in the early 1960's (The Birds)

What I love about the 1979 alien is it takes it's time when going for the kill as if it is enjoying the moment in prolonging it's victims agony.

@vilefly

2 ай бұрын

"It's physical perfection is only matched by its hostility.......You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?"-- Ash

A perfect example of less is more. I’m so glad that most of this was left out. It just proves that good editing is just as important as good writing, acting or directing.

It’s a brilliant film, but not an easy watch. Ridley Scott brilliantly increases the claustrophobic tension with each scene. I’m always amazed how quickly the chest burster grows though! When it burst out of Kane it was tiny, by the end of the film, about 8 feet tall.

Holy shit this amazing! Thanks for putting all this together! Absolutely terrifying

@BurtonMKelso

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%

The crab walk was such a weird decision.. Makes the Alien feel like a child playing a game. Definitely right to edit it out, it's arrival being the out of focus creep in from the left side of Lambert is much more effective.

Great job editing all of this together. Thank you for putting this together. Love the shot at 1:23

Honestly I just loooove this xenomorph. It's so slow, smart. It knows how strong it is and just takes its time. It really feels like you could actually talk to the creature and it seems kind of fascinated with humans. Such a brilliant movie...

@SadAndVengeful

Жыл бұрын

That's why Aliens suck to me. I mean the sequel.

@yankee1376

10 ай бұрын

Dr. Peter Venkman : We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft's okay! He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble!

@SamuelBlack84

10 ай бұрын

The way it sits there like a coiled spider

In the cut footage the Alien looks to be studying Lambert as if it was curious about her. Perhaps it was the fact she was a female and it had only encountered male humans at that point.

Nice job I like how you integrated the all the outtake footage.

the alien creeping about then standing close to lambert at full height made my hairs stand on end

I honestly think they could've left some of this in with quick edits. Not the crab walk...but maybe a few more of those medium and close-up shots. It would've been nice to see more of the big chap in this scene than what's in the theatrical release.

@TheNovelty8theory

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely that shot of ithe alien standing as the music intensifies. It's looked cool and creepy in equal measure.

Love the shot of Parker flying across the room, but other than that, the final edit is superior.

@fortgrove3166

Жыл бұрын

The wire pulling him spoiled the shot; hence the cut.😊

Parker in Alien and Dillon in Alien 3, the only humans that body to body face with xenomorph

I'm glad they edited out a lot of that scene. For one the alien moved too much like a human. Reminded me of sitting on the floor watching tv as a kid too lazy to stand up and just scurrying to the tv!

Woah. As much as I’m glad they did this scene without all this extended stuff I really love that mix at 1:49. The way Lambert’s cries are so far back and quiet in the mix makes it horrifying to me!

1:23 - 1:29 should have made the final cut!

@Alidonius6721

5 жыл бұрын

Also that one bit at 1:43

@dewey70

4 жыл бұрын

@@Alidonius6721 Yup, seeing the two mouths open, but not so close, up was fairly impressive.

This is an amazing fan edit!

Nicely edited together!!

RIP Lambert we hardly knew ye

@Robert_Douglass

6 жыл бұрын

As much as I'd like to say she wasn't, we knew her well enough, she was a fraidy cat. She wanted to stay away from the derelict, and she was all in favour of abandoning the Nostromo; in her mind, nothing could be gained by confronting the creature head-on, and they had already lost three people to it, so the only sensible option was to run, and to trust to hope that the creature wouldn't find its way onto the shuttle before they did.

@AndiGravity

5 жыл бұрын

That's kind of the point. The movie gives you next to no details about these people or the world they live in. The company has no name in this film. It's just called "the company." The characters are only given one name, and then it's only their last names. You never learn what the first names of these characters are, because they never refer to each other by their first names, almost as if none of them know each other well enough to be on a first name basis. And we're not given much, if any, backstory for them. We know they're essentially tow truck drivers, that they're towing a mine/ore refinery, and that's pretty much it. We're thrown into the middle of their lives and their universe with no context, and all we really learn about them over the course of the movie is how they deal with having this alien onboard. That's part of the beauty of the film. It's simple and clean, stripped of all but the important details. As Ash might say, you can admire its purity.

Apart from the crab walk I think this scene is bad ass.

@BurtonMKelso

2 жыл бұрын

100% with you

2:38 the floating is awesome!

lol, quality edits to say the least. Dudes in the cutting room are clearly the unsung heroes.

In all the Alien movies I don't think I've seen it look more menacing than it did starting at 1:23. I've seen maybe all of the special features and deleted scenes before but I'm really curious where you got that footage from?

A lot of this is pretty wonderful but the way Badejo moves from 0:46-0:59 is just *way* too controlled and it just feels like a stuntman in a rubber suit. The short sequence from 1:24-1:29 looks incredible, I don't remember that being in the theatrical cut.

@lordnevetsz

6 жыл бұрын

Lol you can see the wire that pulled him back around his waist.

@Knaeben

6 жыл бұрын

It wasn't in the original cut. It made the sexual imagery too overt and was wisely cut. That and the movements were kind of off, like you said.

@daveruda

6 жыл бұрын

He was no stuntman...he had the right build but they would have needed someone more athletic to move properply. Just thinking about how inhuman they managed to get Samara from the Ring by clever jerky movements and editing.

@TheGloriousNosebleed

5 жыл бұрын

+RazzleDazzle I thought the same thing about 1:24 to 1:29! I think it would've almost been an acceptable substitute shot for the over-Lambert's-shoulder-alien-menacingly-standing-up-shot that they ended up using in the theatrical cut.

@lazystringboy2055

5 жыл бұрын

scoot scoot scoot

That whole sequence still gives me the chills after all those years.

Scariest film ever when I first watched it. Scott's notion that the future could be 'old and grubby' was surprisingly new. Now we all know it likely will be.

Nothin will beat this original design for the Alien.. love it so much how it's bio-mechanical and it blends perfectly in with the ship.

@chasam1234

9 ай бұрын

Lost all sinister credibility and sexual menace when they moved the position of the tail ...its tail was a penis location...Cameron lost his bottle in the next movie.

Admittedly, this is the classic Lambert/Parker death scene spliced in with a heavy dose of the original Lambert ending that was scrapped. Sneaky, dishonest (a tad) but I like it. Late 70's creature horror liked to incorporate a kill scene with a dose of absolutely mind bending frustration into the death toll and Parker's death ranks right up there with the captain's death in the original jaws. He's the only character in the whole movie who had a clear shot at the xeno, yet Parker can't take that shot. Somehow Lambert is "in the way". As usual in horror flicks of the period, this happens to characters who've scored enough audience sympathy that we want them to survive. This well made re-edit lessens the frustration by making it shorter, but I kind of wonder if that was the editor's intent?

The part where the alien walks forward, on hands and feet, really wigged me out as a child when I saw the movie in the theater in 1979. It still has that effect on me today when I rewatch the movie.

all hail the editing process ... great look at the costume design in camera though... thanks !

Truly terrifying movie the original Alien.In it's own way still like nothing I ever seen before.Saw it at movies at age ten in 1979.

@horrormoviedrama1724

5 жыл бұрын

Same here Ben. I saw it when I was 9 in 1979 and my 8 year old brother and I kept running out of the theatre! It's in my all time top 5 films for sure.

@PeterBrown-mz4nv

3 ай бұрын

Same here! And it was loud! That added a lot to the fear dynamic.

Alien is the only film in the franchise where the Xenomorph takes it's time killing, not only takes it's times, but seems to ENJOY killing. It has a weird perverted fascination with it's victims, as though it wants to fuck them before it kills them. Unfortunately in films afterwards it's just a superficial monster. Alien covenant has ruined any mystic we once had about it's origins and the Xeno itself was badly delivered.

@xenomorphlover

6 жыл бұрын

I agree, and i think that element of sexuality increases the overall mystery of this creature. Before they became hive minded bugs in ALIENS, they remained truly mysterious because nothing was really explained in terms of why the creature kills, how it exactly kills and whether it possessed real intelligence. I also think that it has a child like curiosity especially in the first movie, how it slowly walks towards Lambert and later how it watches Ripley in the shuttle at the end of the movie. I think at the end in ALIEN the creature is in the stage of dying and it just wants to be left alone after its rampage through the ship, but is awakened by Ripley. And Covenant....dear god, i can't believe how this awful movie is even made by the same director who gave us this masterpiece.....

@RowanCharlton

6 жыл бұрын

In my mind the two prequels aren't canon and doesn't ruin my enjoyment or facination of the mysterious horrors of their origin. For me, if something isn't by the original creator or was never planned that time, it's all retcon.

@Fremen2

6 жыл бұрын

The sexual element is in line with Giger's original drawings.

@CINEMICKSEVERYDAY

6 жыл бұрын

I hate to admit it but the story is so unclear and screwed up I thought we were going to get an explanation of how they were created but it turns out an Android with an attitude created them fs again hate to admit it but AVP has a better reason for the Xenomorphs creation

@EX22SNIPER

6 жыл бұрын

fanboys always come up with the dumbest shit. I'm so glad the glorification of rape was removed from the symbolism of alien. it's a biological weapon. not a mystic being.

THAT is how the Alien is supposed to sound, NOT the pig noises they had in Alien Isolation

Omg im glad they cut ut. You can see the string attached to Brett

1:24 This moment right here is as if the xenomorph is displaying some sort of arrogance combined with dominance. This shot should have been put in the film.

@pierremontparnasse

2 жыл бұрын

I believe this whole footage is a combo of director-view and main cameras? The wide shot and the one showing what's behind Lambert are additional ones for the director? and that is why the alien suit actor is sitting there waiting and doing that crab walk towards Lambert while hiding from a main camera view and avoid creating a shadow when it wasn't the time yet? Notice also how she doesn't even seem to notice the creature sitting and moving right there!, while she's tossing the tanks??? Also when the tail extends (a guide for Lambert where to focus/face/look, maybe?), the scene cuts to a main camera and she acts like she just hears something at the beginning since she looks around left and right even though the alien creature is right in front, then it alternates from main to off-screen shots a couple of times when she notices the creature. Finally we see that off-screen part when the alien suit actor stands up in order to appear in the next "main shot". Think about it! I kinda believe that is the case, otherwise it is a very bad and goofy scene.

@andreilukyanov4286

Жыл бұрын

The Alien enjoyed killing, and killed them slowly

Its funny but throughout the film Parker was an jerk but he went up against that thing to defend another person. No promise of glory, no chance of survival and Dubious odds of success. Its quite an interesting moment since it shows while he's hot blooded and obnoxious he's a fundemently decent person and very very brave.

Glad they edited this.

I remember seeing this in the theater as you sat there in the darkness , you had the feeling that you had the incredible feeling you were there on that ship .

i still want to know how it got there with neither one seeing it, there doesn't appear to be any vents and the way it is just motionless is even more creepy

@Dirtfire

5 жыл бұрын

You can see the shadow on the wall of it walking into the room, probably from where Brett and lambert came in.

When alien sit on floor and look to Lambert is best scary scene for me

Underrated in the "Best Editing" category.

Seeing the alien sitting and then try to crawl awkwardly towards Lambert is funny. The dude in the xenomorph costume was struggling to get up 😆

Slow movement of alien is absolutely fascinating. It's much more scare than fast moving aliens from following movies. It's really creepy to be cornered by that beast that is taking time to kill you. Slow moving creature that can be anywhere stalking you through dark narrow corridors is the real horror.

This footage would’ve made the film even more iconic than it already is. The idea that the alien did not quite understand standing versus crawling but adapted quickly after watching lambert displays its rapid intellect. Ridley Scott made the impossible possible by creating a realistic ALIEN movie. Guaranteed the government uses this film as way to train, observe, react, and adapt to the unknown in space travel.

@PsychologicalApparition

11 ай бұрын

Why train? This was all created by observing creatures on Earth... There are no xenomorphs in space.

@libsrlosers2113

11 ай бұрын

@@PsychologicalApparition That’s the real question, and what you believe to be the truth versus what you know is fact. Our Apollo moon landings were being observed by saucers on nearby craters so what would you call their occupants?

@libsrlosers2113

11 ай бұрын

@@PsychologicalApparition tps://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/video15.html At 1:20:06:08

@PsychologicalApparition

11 ай бұрын

@@libsrlosers2113 Saucers lol. I'd call them creatures of 1950s horrible practical cinema effects. That's when the saucer trend was great. There is nothing faster than the speed of light. Thre is no planet that harbours life within our galaxy that we can observe. Any planet with life will undergo evolution, probably. There's no telling what kind of creatures could form in a different celestial environment. "Saucers" LOL

@libsrlosers2113

11 ай бұрын

@@PsychologicalApparition Sorry, but you’re incorrect. In 1989, Bob Lazar came forth with the revelation that we have a base that is 20 miles south of area 51 called S4. This base is within an installation in the surrounding mountain of Papoose Lake and has multiple doors (disguised). Inside these doors, they house at least nine different alien craft that operate on the same reactor and are powered by an element identified by Lazar.

That last scream gets me every time. This is my favorite Alien.

I like how they zoomed in at the Alien before killing Parker at 2:09 Thx for uploading

The only part I wish they would've found a way to work in is that image of the xeno curled up and the tail extending, minus the crawling. That tail extended just looked creepy. But the crawling and standing up just looked horrible... Though I'm sure had it made the final cut, that scene would've been so dark it would've worked a little

In the begin, Mr Scott think for the score in isao tomita, but the 20th century fox want a sinphonyc score, ... Mr Jerry goldsmith made magnificent job, one of the best scores in history

Wow....just....wow. whoever decided to chop this scene apart into what it is in the movie....thank you. I feel dirty.

Good call in editing this out

The part wheres hes sitting there, head down so that the dome-like shape kind of points up and his legs, and the bit with the tail extending was pretty cool. But the guy when he starts to walk on his pegs and feet, in some kind of weird african tribal-dance way of something, just didnt suit. But i do appreciate this was early, and Ridley is experimenting with this totally original, out of this world creature he has. Props to Yaphet and Cartwright though, absolute sheer terror in their faces, when Parkers trying to yell at Lambert to get the fuck out of there, when you see a guy like Yaphet in trouble like that, you fuckin believe it. Funny enough Ridley re-used that shot, with the creature crunched up, then getting up, rising and its really tall. He tried that same effect with Fifield's entrance when he returned after being exposed and transformed by the black goo.

1:58 the Xenomorph goes over to him like “dude you ok sorry man” 2:09 he’s like “sorry man you just startled me”

The crab walk in this scene, and the shot of the creature just after it was blasted out of the shuttle are when it’s pretty obvious that it’s a guy in a suit.

Wow never saw this before...but theatrical cut was good ....salute to the editor...

I kind of like the concept. It's easy to forget because of how overexposed the xenomorph's iconic design has become since all the spinoffs and sequels, but in the original movie it's never even clear whether the alien has legs until you see it sucked into space. And it was Aliens that established that the thing even moves with its head in front and tail in back like a regular-ass animal (though to its credit, it did still manage to make that look weird). This early in the game, no one knew anything. This would've been the third scene in a pattern. First, with Brett, you see its size and its weird mouth. Then with Dallas, you see its head and pipe-y, bony body. And finally, here, you'd see that even the way it stands still is fuckin weird, all folded up with the head just throbbingly erect like that. It moves like it lives in bursts, like a camouflaged insect, spending most of its time inert in a way that mammals like us always find really unrelatable. Still, the crabwalk doesn't look that good. I'm guessing that what they wanted was for a really smooth, lightweight sliding motion, but the suit's weight made it impossible to do without doddering back and forth. Still, it's a shame, because that tail thing at the beginning is just sublimely awful, like a flasher or something.

@Daniel__Nobre

5 жыл бұрын

That insect aspect would be a really cool creepy behaviour indeed. There are some scenes in other movies and comics where the Xenos are just standing there but they never really take advantage of how disturbing that behaviour is.

@shafismaili1347

5 жыл бұрын

I think you're right that the tail unfold was awesome & creepy. If they'd just reshot the crab walk as a head first crawl the whole thing might have worked.

@763kjm

Жыл бұрын

The original 4:3 ratio format is the best, you don't see any part of its body other than its face and the tail stinger until the very end scene, it has folk thinking Jeeso!!! So that's what it looks like!!!

@763kjm

Жыл бұрын

Think you see its hands in the scene it ambushes Dallas, but you see only fleet glances of its body, it is assumed that it looks lik a grown up version of the chest burster, limbless like a snake, only in the very end when it gets sucked out the airlock is it finally revealed what it actually looks like

This creature was NEVER called a XENOMORPH until the sequel. Before, it was just called an ALIEN.

@XH1927

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps not, but that is what this particular movie monster has come to be named, and there is nothing you can do about it. So shut up and deal.

@jameszack7158

5 жыл бұрын

@Георгий Коновченко wrong. It is the specific name weyland-yutani gave to the species

@ronniemarion8456

5 жыл бұрын

@@jameszack7158 only in part 2. The term was only in existence after the sequel.

@jameszack7158

5 жыл бұрын

@@ronniemarion8456 excuse me? In first Alien film we only watch Nostromo's crew, they never knew that alien existed, so how do you expect them to call it an "xenomorph"? It is natural that they call it an alien.

@ronniemarion8456

5 жыл бұрын

@@jameszack7158 I don't think you intended that message to be aimed at me. I'm in agreement with you.

I'm glad they cut the long version from the film.

The wonders of editing.