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As a true Science Fiction buff... I can only think of a few movies that have ever really stayed in my consciousness as classics that deserve endless watching and that reveal new things each and every time I see them. Howard Hawks "The Thing From Another World" is one these very few and the other is...well... let's just say that before the next appearance of Halloween, I want to fabricate a fully functioning, articulating Head and Torso of a scale sized version of the H.R. Giger Bio-Mechanoid Xenomorph Creature regaled in the original 1979 Ridley Scott Classic Sci-Fi Thriller:
ALIEN
This YouTube segment #5 from "The Making of ALIEN" features, among others, an interview with Carlo Rambaldi, the Italian Special Effects mechanical engineer who shows how he designed, built and perfected the mechanical head used in the brief but terrifying kill scene when Brett is searching for Jonesy the Cat that he foolishly let slip away during the search with Parker and Ripley for the apparently shy and retiring Chest Burster that fled the scene and ends up in the bowels of the NOSTROMO spaceship engine room area. As Brett is trying coax the orange cat towards him the alien creature, having morphed into its final adult form, it descends on swinging linked cargo chains like some giant spider and.. with great surprise on the face of his intended victim... brutally kills him with explosive, gnashing relish.
This is arguably the most frightening moment ever created for a late 20th Century Fox Science Fiction movie, with only its Chest Burster Gestation Creature and the Face Hugger Egg Vector Animal as competition.... and all appearing within the same movie! Once I get started on the work, I'll show all the procedures. materials and actuating mechanisms I come up with to make it look as authentic as possible and ensure that it works reliably. Then next year...on Halloween Night... I'll park this thing just inside my front bay window, under-lit with some subtle, flashing blue lighting and when anybody gets close enough to look in at the creature and trips the sensor... BAM! He'll crank open his enormous jaws and with all his chromed dental bling in full view...fire out that second "toothy tongue" like a harpoon and scare the living sh*t out of everyone while he bites down hard! I can't wait to get started on this...
ALIEN
This YouTube segment #5 from "The Making of ALIEN" features, among others, an interview with Carlo Rambaldi, the Italian Special Effects mechanical engineer who shows how he designed, built and perfected the mechanical head used in the brief but terrifying kill scene when Brett is searching for Jonesy the Cat that he foolishly let slip away during the search with Parker and Ripley for the apparently shy and retiring Chest Burster that fled the scene and ends up in the bowels of the NOSTROMO spaceship engine room area. As Brett is trying coax the orange cat towards him the alien creature, having morphed into its final adult form, it descends on swinging linked cargo chains like some giant spider and.. with great surprise on the face of his intended victim... brutally kills him with explosive, gnashing relish.
This is arguably the most frightening moment ever created for a late 20th Century Fox Science Fiction movie, with only its Chest Burster Gestation Creature and the Face Hugger Egg Vector Animal as competition.... and all appearing within the same movie! Once I get started on the work, I'll show all the procedures. materials and actuating mechanisms I come up with to make it look as authentic as possible and ensure that it works reliably. Then next year...on Halloween Night... I'll park this thing just inside my front bay window, under-lit with some subtle, flashing blue lighting and when anybody gets close enough to look in at the creature and trips the sensor... BAM! He'll crank open his enormous jaws and with all his chromed dental bling in full view...fire out that second "toothy tongue" like a harpoon and scare the living sh*t out of everyone while he bites down hard! I can't wait to get started on this...
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