What makes the Alien creepy and terrifying?

its not though

It is a penis.

>>84090740

The rape metaphors.

>>84090758

Uh, do you even know the story behind the release of the original and why it scared the SHIT out of audiences??

>>84090866
No, please tell

>>84090740
its black

>>84090778
This, a big, black, cock trying to inject it's dna into places it does not belong.

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>>84090740
Aggression, size and lethality and combined with stealth. It's arguably the most dangerous creature in its universe. And also sometimes they become Sith Lords.

It's a guy in a suit and not shifty cg. makes it much more realism. They also used a real human skull in the face

>>84090896

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZu0X9Mbyc
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idr3ktzBVNE&t=208s

>>84090740
their body is a womb built from the greatest concepts nature has produced amalgamated together. They're fucking beautiful but also highly practical, we see them and see a creature clad in armor.

also they're inter-species rapists. >>84090846
It isn't a metaphor. They're literally rapists. That fact makes them unsettling because its fucking hot.

he's a big guy

>>84090846
This and more.
>guy is rapefaced
>gives explosive birth
>dies in the process as if a disposable womb
>offspring is a spooky hungry skeleton
>no bonus

yeah guys what's so creepy about a monster that grows inside and bursts out of your own body?? please help me understand!

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Ridley had many other plans for the xenomorph in the original movie. He intended to show more of it. Think what you see in Covenant (pic related). But everyone agreed the suit looked laughable. Plus it was fragile and difficult to move in. So Ridley decided to hide it as much as possible with closeups and lighting. There is plenty of deleted footage that will never see the light of day.

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>>84091421
>implying actual rape has some sort of bonus

>>84091575
moar?

It rapes and kills.

>>84091428

> Waiting for that shot to happen
> it didn't

God Covenant made Prometheus look like a masterpiece.

>>84090740
Honestly, beyond its frightening design and rape metaphors, a few elements that have been lost since the first movie : Its unnatural looking movement, implied sentience and how much it represents the greater unknown.
Prometheus was on the right track on many of those elements, too bad it got overloaded with dumb characters and schlock tier action sequences. Covenant was the better movie on a mechanical level, but it looses that element in dumbing everything down and shoehorning the Xenomorph into it.

What had inherently lessened the franchise are the films in it that make the Alien, well, less alien. Aliens for example is a great Vietnam in space notStarship Troopers vehicle, one Cameron was going to make with or without that franchise attached. But it already misses the point by desegniting a Queen and making these creatures something to be torn apart by assault riffles and flame-throwers.
What should have happened is what Ridley has tried (but failed) to do with his recent two films: A shared anthology universe that explores cosmic horror and the alien without having to rely on any set continuity or a creature feature.

tall benis rape biomechanical no eyes

only redditors think that

>>84092157

Only plebs like you think that.

>>84092643
redditor detected

>>84091055
>Ridley Scott: "I'll only do another science fiction if it's got a good script"
How the mighty have fallen

>>84093161
It's not like he hasn't been hit or miss over the decades and even in his current duds there are enough good things for one to come back for more.
I'm just glad he's still making films a his age, probably ain't going to be with us for much longer.

the alien human hybrid from alien resurrection is genuinely terrifying looking

>>84090740
Best design

>>84093793
This. In fact all Aliens are terrifying apart from James Cameron's ones. Only scene that I got spooked was when they were climbing in the vent shaft

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What makes the Alien terrifying is that it is slow moving like Set in The Mummy. THIS is what I wanted to see in Alien: Covenant. ENOUGH with fast moving monsters

>>84091762

But it saves more than it rapes.

>>84096017
what is that thing?

>>84096233
judging by his post, the god Set, in the movie The Mummy

The fact you don't see it

/thread

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>>84096233
It's meant to resemble Set (although reminder that Set is the God of destruction and not God of death as the movie says he is).

Apart from this movie mistake, I do like how they made this Egyptian God to not resemble how Ancient Egyptians drew him.

>>84091428
So, it's another Jaws effect. He wanted to show the creature more, but technical limitations caused him to keep the creature hidden, thus making the movie a million times better. Now he fucked up with Covenant.

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>>84090740

I think the human looking skull in it's translucent head is fucking horrific

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>>84096430
Jesus fuck, that's legit terrifying. I wish you could see that effect better in the actual movie.

So the name Alien is ironic?

>>84090740
Not much. /tv/ really exaggerates this shit. The alien is definitely threatening looking but it's not incredibly scary. This place is just full of memeing faglords

>>84090740

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofZ7xjGyI8

everyone needs to watch this video

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>>84096427
Yep. See for yourself.
https://youtu.be/WsU6yaA0r0w

https://youtu.be/eR5jYeIMBKk

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>>84090740
Editing, lighting, acting.

This scene sticks with you better than the stuff from most horror films:
https://youtu.be/NZbcLIXhyxA

>>84096632
That was great

>>84091421
>>no bonus
The true horror here

>>84096949

This asshole is making the next starwars after rian.

Think about that.

>>84090740
It's everything foreign. What we don't understand is what we fear most.

>>84096632
holy shit is this the Mandela effect? could of sworn Claire was killed at the end, she died when she went back to the control room and the T-rex happened to be there.

>>84097202

she didn't die, she lured the old t-rex into the big dino fight and then lived happily ever after

Looks like OP

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Am I the only one who finds xenos sexy?

I mean, just look at those butts

>>84096632

>all character archetypes must be the same for all movies

Is this moron legit retarded?

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>>84097332
What's wrong Ripley-chan? Could it be you're craving my mcnuggies??

>>84097367

I didn't link the other videos but his film analysis deals largely through lens of monomyth, psychology and how these elements play out basically in same structure even if details vary. He compared it to how skull is relatively the same yet faces can vary widely. Foundation =/= not all movies are same etc.

He's attacking underlying elements, not that movie isn't the same even though he has another video breaking down how jurassic world is basically a carbon copy of jurassic park but without the foundation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPjVgYDL6Y

>>84097332
No, they are meant to be sexy.

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>>84097332

>>84090740
The actor who portrays the alien is black.

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>>84097332
This game is absolutely gorgeous.

>>84096790
>okay in this scene, I want the xeno to get a boner and then crab walk a few steps forward at a walking pace and then stop

>>84093161
This
Kek

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>>84090740
They're creepy and beautiful at the same time, that's more terrifying that simply ugly and monstrous.

>>84097008
If he can make it more like Aliens and less like Jurassic World, I'm totally okay with that.