The Inspiration for "Alien".
This, Dan O'Bannon's admitted inspiration for the first "Alien," is quite a good little "B" film. You can nitpick about the cheapness of the monster, or inconsistencies in continuity, but none of that takes away from what is essentially a quite serviceable plot (a hideous monster from Mars[!] sneaks aboard a spaceship and wreaks death and destruction upon its crew).
NOTE: An earlier reviewer noted that the monster's unmoving mouth-- with what looks to be a huge, fat tongue sticking out of it--was quite unnerving to her. This look was not intentional, however. The fact is that the monster's rubber face mask turned out to be much too SMALL for the large actor playing the part (Ray Corrigan--star of B-westerns, and the former owner of a large Simi Valley movie ranch once known as Corriganville), causing his CHIN to stick out of the mouth! (Ever resourceful, the filmmakers just went ahead and painted Corrigan's chin dark, as if that was what they had intended all along!)
NOTE: An earlier reviewer noted that the monster's unmoving mouth-- with what looks to be a huge, fat tongue sticking out of it--was quite unnerving to her. This look was not intentional, however. The fact is that the monster's rubber face mask turned out to be much too SMALL for the large actor playing the part (Ray Corrigan--star of B-westerns, and the former owner of a large Simi Valley movie ranch once known as Corriganville), causing his CHIN to stick out of the mouth! (Ever resourceful, the filmmakers just went ahead and painted Corrigan's chin dark, as if that was what they had intended all along!)
- MPOliphant
- Mar 30, 2004