But back in the 1970s, this was anything but a sure thing. Nobody knew whether HR Giger's horrific alien creature would hit big with audiences and it's fair to say that very few would have pegged this ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...