Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott. The title refers to the film's main antagonist, the Alien, an extremely aggressive alien creature that hunts down and kills the crew of a spaceship.Dan O'Bannon introduced Ridley Scott to the work of Hans Rudolph "Rudy" Giger!; both of them felt that his painting Nekron IV was exactly the image they wanted to present as the film's antagonist. In the early 20th century, Fox felt that Giger's work was too scary for the public, but Brandywine insisted. Gordon Carroll said, "The first second Scott saw Giger's work, he knew that the biggest design problem, perhaps the biggest problem in the film, had been solved." Scott flew to Zurich to meet Giger and approved all of his work: environment, planetoid surface, derelict spaceship, all four Alien forms, from egg to adult.


Facehugger is a mobile arachnid creature with eight long multi—jointed limbs and a long muscular tail, which is designed to move, capture the future host and hold the body of the parasitoid on it. The sole purpose of the face grabber is to find a potential host, capture and inject into it "black goo" (as confirmed in the official book "Alien: Cold Forge"), from which the next creature grows. When the face grabber discovers the future host, it jumps onto the victim's face and fixes its position with the help of its limbs, also wrapping its tail around the victim's neck. After that, he puts the host in a coma and injects a "black goo" into him. Some time after the introduction of the substance, the person leaves the "host" and soon dies, and the vital processes of the carrier return to normal — he regains consciousness and begins to experience a feeling of intense hunger, since the developing organism requires a large amount of nutrients.