Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the ...

Seven years passed between the release of Ridley Scott's "Alien" in 1979 and the arrival of James Cameron's action-heavy follow-up "Aliens" in 1986. In that time, while a new generation of ...

BERLIN (AP) - The Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger who designed the monster and revolutionary sci-fi sets for the film "Alien" has died, his museum said on Tuesday. He was 74. Giger, who was born ...

If you take a walk through the medieval town of Gruyères at the base of the Pre-Alps in Switzerland, you'll wander through cobblestone, fairy-tale streets on your way up to a 13th-century castle.

It turns out that the already frightening Facehugger xenomorph from director Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic "Alien" was actually scaled back a bit from its original design by artist H.R.

The 24-year-old actor — who plays one of the show's two adult Xenomorphs — had to film a fight scene with the CGI-generated creature, but he wasn't left completely in the dark. The Alien: Earth ...

ZURICH, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Tom Fischer was a struggling young Swiss musician in 1984 when Oscar-winning artist H.R. Giger threw him a lifeline: a striking cover for an album that became a heavy metal ...