In the working draft, the green script, it appears on page 51. "Kane's face screws into a mask of agony," read the terse, throb-like description. "A red stain, a smear of blood, blossoms on his chest.

Alien's chestburster sequence remains one of cinema's most shocking, and the legend of how it was filmed has become almost as infamous as the scene itself. Here, in an excerpt from his book, Cinema ...

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 ...

The chestburster scene is infamous for the cast being largely in the dark about just what was going to happen to Kane, and their horrified reactions are entirely genuine. However, earlier in the scene ...

The moment when the baby Xenomorph (or chestburster as it’s generally referred to in Alien lore) erupts forth from the chest of Nostromo’s executive officer Kane (the late, great John Hurt) is not ...

Terrifying sci-fi Alien is widely regarded as being one of the very best of its kind in Hollywood history. Ridley Scott's extraordinary futuristic world is home to one of cinema's most iconic monsters ...

ITV News breached the broadcasting code in a tribute to actor Sir John Hurt, watchdog Ofcom has ruled. The programme aired the gruesome “chestburster” scene from Alien, one of the late star’s best ...

They are one of the most terrifying monsters in cinema history. Cinema-goers shrieked with fright in 1979 when, out of nowhere, an alien burst out of John Hurt's chest, beginning the start of one of ...