Xenomorph on film

I'm watching one of the "features" DVDs in the Alien Quadrilogy set. The "Creature Design" section, strangely, is the only thing I've seen all day that's cheered me up. (The reason why I'm watching the features is because a certain person is too ill to watch movies with, plus my apartment is freezing, so it's been a pretty miserable and boring day.) The interview with the writers, designers, and actors about the infamous chestburster scene are absolutely hilarious. "Is is coming through yet, 'Arry? Can you see it?"

There's also a slideshow of poster ideas that make me very very glad they went with "In space, no one can hear you scream":

Please listen Mankind, you have so little time.

Once again, something has come from space, and this time it's not a friend.

From an infinite universe, the ultimate threat.

The universe trembles.

There are things so terrifying, they only exist in a nightmare...or outer space

Think the unthinkable.
Speak the unspeakable.
Suffer the unsufferable.
Then perhaps you can begin to imagine the unimaginable horror headed our way.

No one should be allowed to even imagine that thing which is now headed our way.

It is an unspeakable horror.
Unlike anything previously experienced by mankind.
And what seven human beings are suffering now far out in the universe will soon, all too soon, be shared by us all.

Prepare yourself. [okay, that one's not so bad, but completely uninformative and non-scary]

a word of warning [accompanied by a monochrome, mostly black, image of a sprawled human hand in front of two eggs]

Of course, even the pithy tagline they finally settled on has been parodied on the site of Bernie Hou's brilliant Alien loves Predator webcomic.

I guess I do have a fangirl streak. Sigourney Weaver is my favourite actress on the basis of those movies. I know I've seen other things with her and liked them, but I can't remember WHAT.

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And when I said my apartment was freezing, I meant literally. Just installed window film today, and it's tangibly warmer (this isn't just subjective, I have a digital lab freezer thermometer that was discarded for having a broken sensor wire).