There have been plenty of shocking scenes in horror history, but few have withstood the test of time like one from Ridley Scott's Alien in 1979. If you've seen it, you know exactly which moment we're ...

There might be an entire Alien franchise, one which will continue with this year's Alien: Romulus from director Fede Álvarez, but let's be honest, it's only the first two films so far that stand the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, and Harry Dean Stanton react to the appearance of the chestburster in a screencap from Alien.

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.

But for all the movies in the franchise, to date, the very first time characters and audiences witness the birth of a Xenomorph out of a human host is the most horrifying scene. Often referred to as ...

Die Chestburster-Szene aus Alien ist einfach ein Brett. Selbst 46 Jahre später gibt es wenige Momente in Sci-Fi-Horror-Filmen, die das Debüt des Xenomorphs toppen. Sogar Francis Ford Coppola wollte ...