What frightening sci-fi film character, also called a xenomorph, was designed by H. R. Giger from a lithograph titled Necronom IV?
"designed, notably ""Alien"". The prominent high-backed chair design was originally intended as a Harkonnen throne for an abandoned ""Dune"" film project. In 2013, the founder of the Sci-Fi Hotel chain, Andy Davies, partnered with artist Giger to establish the Giger Bar brand in the United States as part of the company's development plans. Giger Bar A Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, the H.R. Giger Bar in Chur, Switzerland, which opened in 1992, and the second is The Museum HR Giger Bar, located in"
"seen anything that was quite as horrible and at the same time as beautiful as his work"" he remembered later. The ""Dune"" film collapsed, but O'Bannon would remember Giger when ""Alien"" was greenlit, and suggested to director Ridley Scott that he be brought on to design the Alien, saying that if he were to design a monster, it would be truly original. After O'Bannon handed him a copy of Giger's book ""Necronomicon"", Scott immediately saw the potential for Giger's designs, and chose ""Necronom IV"", a print Giger completed in 1976, as the basis for the Alien's design, citing its beauty"
"and strong sexual overtones. That the creature could just as easily have been male or female was also a strong factor in the decision to use it. ""It could just as easily fuck you before it killed you,"" said line producer Ivor Powell, ""[which] made it all the more disconcerting."" Fox Studios were initially wary of allowing Giger onto the project, saying that his works would be too disturbing for audiences, but eventually relented. Giger initially offered to completely design the Alien from scratch, but Scott mandated that he base his work on ""Necronom IV"", saying that to start over"
"detail. The facehugger itself was the first creature that H.R. Giger designed for the film, going through several versions in different sizes before deciding on a small creature with humanlike fingers and a long tail. Dan O'Bannon, with help from Ron Cobb, drew his own version based on Giger's design, which became the final version. Cobb came up with the idea that the creature could have a powerful acid for blood, a characteristic that would carry over to the adult Alien and would make it impossible for the crew to kill it by conventional means such as guns or explosives,"
"Harkonnen Capo Chair The Harkonnen Capo Chair is one of H. R. Giger's furniture designs. It is manufactured by hand chiefly out of aluminium or black fiberglass and made to resemble a human skeleton. The chair was initially designed for an unproduced movie version of the 1965 Frank Herbert science fiction novel ""Dune"" that was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s. Baron Harkonnen is the villain of Herbert's novel. In 1984 David Lynch directed the film ""Dune"", using none of Giger's designs. The most prominent feature of the Capo Chair is a crown of three noseless skulls"
"named Xenomorph XX121, and has been referred to most often onscreen, and in the credits of each film, simply as the ""Alien"". It was called an alien, and an organism, in the first film. It has also been referred to as a creature, a serpent, a beast, a dragon, a monster, a nasty, or simply, a thing. The term ""xenomorph"" (lit. ""alien form""—from Greek ""xeno-"", which translates as either ""other"" or ""strange"", and ""-morph"", which denotes shape) was first used by the character Lieutenant Gorman in ""Aliens"" with reference to generic extraterrestrial life. The term was erroneously assumed by some"
"album in several versions with different tracks and sequences. O'Bannon introduced Scott to the artwork of H. R. Giger; both of them felt that his painting ""Necronom IV"" was the type of representation they wanted for the film's antagonist and began asking the studio to hire him as a designer. 20th Century Fox initially believed Giger's work was too ghastly for audiences, but the Brandywine team were persistent and eventually won out. According to Gordon Carroll: ""The first second that Ridley saw Giger's work, he knew that the biggest single design problem, maybe the biggest problem in the film, had"
"Superman/Aliens Superman/Aliens is an American comic book limited series about a battle between the superhero Superman and the aliens created by H. R. Giger (a.k.a. the Xenomorphs), from the ""Alien"" film series. The writers use the plot device of Superman's powers temporarily diminishing-due to him being in a location with a distinct lack of yellow sunlight that his body requires to give him his powers-to make the Xenomorphs a believable threat to the Man of Steel. Creative team on this miniseries: story and layout art by Dan Jurgens, with finished art by Kevin Nowlan. It was published by Dark Horse"
"the Alien's head were designed and constructed by Italian special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi. The species' design and life cycle have been extensively augmented, sometimes inconsistently, throughout each film. Similar creatures of a slightly different designs named the ""Deacon"" makes a brief appearance in the Ridley Scott film ""Prometheus"" (2012). Two species, one being a different but similar creature called a ""Neomorph"" and the other being a variation of the Xenomorph XX121 species appear in the sequel to ""Prometheus"", """" (2017), which reveals the potential origin of the species. In addition, the Alien appears in various literature and video game"
"relevance to anything written by Lovecraft but was probably an affectionate tip of the hat from Jack Laird, who had scripted the other Lovecraft-based episodes). Dan O'Bannon and Ridley Scott's 1979 ""Alien"" bore a strong Lovecraftian influence, especially in the set design of H. R. Giger, who has published two art books inspired by Lovecraft's fictional ""Necronomicon"". O'Bannon later made ""The Resurrected"", based on ""The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"". As the 1980s and 1990s played out, Lovecraftian horror became a recognizable film staple in a variety of films. In 1981, ""The Evil Dead"" comedy horror film franchise was created"
"Barracora Barracora is a 1981 pinball machine released by Williams Electronics. It was based on the Williams System 7 design which debuted with the ""Black Knight"" game. ""Barracora""'s backglass is more or less a copy of the famous artist H. R. Giger’s painting ""Li I"" from 1974. Giger is known for his design in the science fiction horror movie ""Alien"" (1979) directed by Ridley Scott. Among the games elements are two banks of drop targets, including a three-target set (B, A, and RR) and a five-target set (A, C, O, R, A). The most common story of ""Barracora""'s strange name"
"created the creatures in the ""Alien"" films. Donaldson thought Giger was the best man for the film after reading his compendium ""Necronomicon"", and eventually he and Mancuso flew to Switzerland to meet the artist. What attracted Giger was the opportunity to design ""a monster in another way—an aesthetic warrior, also sensual and deadly, like the women look in [his] paintings."" While Giger opted to stay in Switzerland to take care of his dying mother instead of flying to Los Angeles to accompany production, he built some puppets in his own studio, and later faxed sketches and airbrush paintings as production"
"Xenomorph (video game) Xenomorph is a 1990 video game developed and published by Pandora for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64. ""Xenomorph"" is a science-fiction role-playing video game, viewed from a first-person perspective with an icon-driven interface that drew comparisons with ""Dungeon Master"". The storyline is influenced by the early ""Alien"" franchise. The player controls a janitor on a two-year supply run to Sirius who wakes from cryosleep after traversing hyperspace (the big empty) to find his ship, the ""Mombassa Oak"", has been crippled on arrival at its destination (part of it remaining in hyperspace) leaving the ship's computer"
"blending into any background, causing confusion and disarray amongst the enemy by playing with their emotions, but the creature mutated into something terrifying and insane its creators couldn't control. One of the polymorph's forms appears somewhat similar to the Xenomorph Alien from the movie ""Alien"" (1979). Polymorphs appear to be able to drain emotions from mechanoids and holograms, and are able to physically touch soft-light holograms. A genetic mutant documentary in ""Can of Worms"" mentions that a female polymorph deposits a passing organism with her eggs while disguising herself as a mate. Kryten also explains that these eggs hatch soon"
"structure since they propagate through mutated animal life. In the years since the release of ""Alien"", the Alien has become one of the world's most recognized movie monsters and a popular-cultural icon. In 2003, the Alien was voted as the 14th most memorable screen villain by the American Film Institute. Blondie co-founder Chris Stein, who was a friend of Giger, pondered in an interview: ""I'd like to see someone even vaguely compile how many versions of the Alien are floating around the world in models and stuff; there must be close to 100,000–little toys, things. All the Japanese horror comics"
"of the best-known is the Xenomorph in Ridley Scott's 1979 film ""Alien"", which runs rapidly through its lifecycle from violently entering a human host's mouth to bursting fatally from the host's chest. The molecular biologist Alex Sercel, writing in ""Signal to Noise Magazine"", compares ""the biology of the [""Alien""] Xenomorphs to parasitoid wasps and nematomorph worms from Earth to illustrate how close to reality the biology of these aliens is and to discuss this exceptional instance of science inspiring artists"". Sercel notes that the way the Xenomorph grasps a human's face to implant its embryo is comparable to the way"
"on the left bank of drop targets."" Barracora Barracora is a 1981 pinball machine released by Williams Electronics. It was based on the Williams System 7 design which debuted with the ""Black Knight"" game. ""Barracora""'s backglass is more or less a copy of the famous artist H. R. Giger’s painting ""Li I"" from 1974. Giger is known for his design in the science fiction horror movie ""Alien"" (1979) directed by Ridley Scott. Among the games elements are two banks of drop targets, including a three-target set (B, A, and RR) and a five-target set (A, C, O, R, A). The"
"1989 until the rides closure in 2017. An ""Alien""-based attraction at the Magic Kingdom entered early development stages before being reworked into ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. The Alien has a brief cameo in an episode of ""Zig and Sharko"". Alien (creature in Alien franchise) The ""Alien"" (colloquial: ""Xenomorph XX121""; binomial: ""Internecivus raptus [""murderous thief""]"") is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the eponymous antagonist of the ""Alien"" film series. The species made its debut in the film ""Alien"" (1979) and reappeared in the sequels ""Aliens"" (1986), ""Alien 3"" (1992), and ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997), as well as the crossover films ""Alien"
"the Worlds"", ""cyber-vamps"" like ""The Stainless Steel Leech"" and ""Marid and the Trail of Blood"", and psychic bloodsuckers, as in Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Parasite"" and Robert Wiene's 1920 film ""The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"". The Xenomorph in ""Alien"" is a parasitoid, inevitably fatal to its human host. It has a life-cycle stage that grows inside the person's body; when mature, the predatory adult Xenomorph bursts out, killing the host. This behaviour was inspired by parasitoid wasps which have just such a life-cycle. The molecular biologist Alex Sercel compares Xenomorph biology to that of parasitoid wasps and nematomorph worms, arguing"
"O'Bannon said in an interview, ""when suddenly, that word ""alien"" just came out of the typewriter at me. ""Alien"". It's a noun and it's an adjective."" The word ""alien"" subsequently became the title of the film and, by extension, the name of the creature itself. Prior to writing the script to ""Alien"", O'Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel ""Dune"". Also hired for the project was Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger. Giger showed O'Bannon his nightmarish, monochromatic artwork, which left O'Bannon deeply disturbed. ""I had never"
"the designs for the film ""Alien"" was named ""Necronomicon"", the name of a fictional book in several of Lovecraft's mythos stories. Dan O'Bannon, the original writer of the ""Alien"" screenplay, has also mentioned Lovecraft as a major influence on the film. With Ronald Shusett, he would later write ""Dead & Buried"" and ""Hemoglobin"", both of which were admitted pastiches of Lovecraft. Lovecraft has cast a long shadow across the comic world. This has included not only adaptations of his stories, such as """", ""Graphic Classics: H. P. Lovecraft"" and MAX's ""Haunt of Horror"", but also the incorporation of the Mythos"
"fans to refer specifically to this creature, and the word was used by the producers of some merchandise. The species' binomial names are given in Latin as either ""Internecivus raptus"" (meant as ""murderous thief"") in the ""Alien Quadrilogy"" DVD or ""Lingua foeda acheronsis"" (meant as ""foul tongue from Acheron"") in some comic books. The main Alien from ""Alien vs. Predator"" is listed in the credits as ""Grid"", after a grid-like wound received during the film from a Predator's razor net. """" actually credits the Alien as Xenomorph, while also listing a different variety of the creature as the Neomorph. In"
"from the beginning would be too time-consuming. Giger signed on to design the adult, egg and chestburster forms, but ultimately also designed the alien planetoid LV-426 and the Space Jockey alien vessel. Giger conceived the Alien as being vaguely human but a human in full armor, protected from all outside forces. He mandated that the creature have no eyes, because he felt that it made them much more frightening if you could not tell they were looking at you. Giger also gave the Alien's mouth a second inner set of pharyngeal jaws located at the tip of a long, tongue-like"
"and appears to have a normal, healthy bodily function. According to ""AVPR: Science of the Xenomorph"", a behind-the-scenes documentary on ""Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem"", it is theorized that facehuggers may implant a viral agent that ""commands"" the host's cells to grow the chestburster, as opposed to an implanted embryo. This would explain how the resulting alien is able to adopt the characteristics of its host. Giger's original design for the facehugger was a much larger creature with eyes and a spring-loaded tail. Later, in response to comments from the filmmakers, Giger reduced the creature's size substantially. At first, Giger assumed"
"drawn from natural life, such as plants and sea creatures. Creature designer Carlos Huante chose to make the creature designs pale to contrast the black-toned, Giger-influenced aesthetic of ""Alien"". Huante designed them to be white and embryonic because the events in the film occur before Giger's influence had taken effect. Huante took influences from references Scott was using to design the pale-skinned Engineers. Huante also referenced other Giger works, national monuments, large sculptures, and the Crazy Horse Memorial statue in South Dakota. Part of Huante's early design work included developing precursors to ""Alien""s Facehugger, and a primitive ""Alien"" creature, but"
"before World War II. He is also mentioned in volumes 2 and 3 of the graphic novel ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" by Alan Moore. Nyctalope The Nyctalope, real name Léo Saint-Clair, is a pulp fiction hero created by French writer Jean de La Hire in 1911. He may be the first cyborg (an individual with both organic and mechanical body parts) in literature and is seen as a significant precursor to the superhero genre. The character has an artificial heart and powers such as excellent night vision, which is the source of his name. Jean de La Hire (the"
"still think of him as a son, his loyalties to New Genesis may become divided at some crucial future date. As the comic ends, Darkseid and DeSaad look in at a room filled with facehugger-infected Parademons in stasis, hinting at a possible sequel. The stories have been collected into trade paperbacks: Superman/Aliens Superman/Aliens is an American comic book limited series about a battle between the superhero Superman and the aliens created by H. R. Giger (a.k.a. the Xenomorphs), from the ""Alien"" film series. The writers use the plot device of Superman's powers temporarily diminishing-due to him being in a location"
"human ninjas to an endless supply of robotic grunts, allowing large numbers of them to be destroyed without anyone dying (this was a very important decision in terms of the show's child audience; excessive violence would have alienated parents of children, the show's target demographic). Krang, one of the series' most memorable villains, was inspired by the design of the Utrom, a benign alien race from the Mirage comics. The animated Krang, however, was instead an evil warlord from Dimension X. Baxter Stockman, whose race was changed from black to white either due to apprehension toward depicting a villainous African"
"elements include shadows cast by the rod puppet alien, and airborne debris in outdoor scenes. David Fincher wanted the alien to be, ""more of a puma, or a beast"" as opposed to the upright, humanoid posture of the previous films, so the designer of the original alien, H. R. Giger, was contacted to generate new sketch ideas. His revisions included longer, thinner legs, the removal of ""pipes"" around the spine, and an idea for a sharp alien ""tongue"" in place of the secondary jaws. Working from his studio in Zurich, Giger produced these new sketches which he faxed to Cornelius"
"Deathstorm and Alexander Luthor who had stolen multiple powers. The visual design of Sinestro was based upon British actor David Niven. However, the alien features of Sinestro's physical appearance have been depicted inconsistently in both comics and animation over the decades. Sinestro's skin color (and that of other Korugarians), although often diegetically described as simply ""red"", is rarely depicted as such, ranging from pink, deep scarlet, purple and, perhaps most commonly, magenta, depending on the colorist. Additionally, many artists portray Sinestro with an upwardly elongated forehead (similar to the original design of Hulk villain the Leader, albeit less extreme), while"
"Syngenor Syngenor is a 1990 B horror/science fiction film that was a sequel to the 1981 film ""Scared to Death"". The film was directed by George Elanjian Jr and written by Michael Carmody and Brent V. Friedman. It features David Gale and Kathryn Noble. Norton Cyberdyne provides high-tech military technology and their latest super weapon is ""Syngenor"" (SYNthesized GENetic ORganism). A prototype breaks loose and starts leaving a trail of bodies. As bodies pile up other Syngenors emerge from the basement and a battle rages between the monsters and the corporate humans. Producer Jack F. Murphy saw the original ""Scared"
"Stegron Stegron the Dinosaur Man is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Gil Kane, the character first appeared in ""Marvel Team-Up"" #19 (March 1974). Vincent Stegron was hired by S.H.I.E.L.D. to work with Dr. Curt Connors to study DNA of dinosaurs from the Savage Land. Inspired by the experiment that turned Connors into the Lizard, Stegron stole some dinosaur DNA and injected himself with it. In moments Stegron transformed into an orange semi-humanoid ""Stegosaurus""-like creature. Stegron gained the ability to command real dinosaurs, and he planned to"
"Nyctalope The Nyctalope, real name Léo Saint-Clair, is a pulp fiction hero created by French writer Jean de La Hire in 1911. He may be the first cyborg (an individual with both organic and mechanical body parts) in literature and is seen as a significant precursor to the superhero genre. The character has an artificial heart and powers such as excellent night vision, which is the source of his name. Jean de La Hire (the pen name of Adolphe d'Espi) began his series involving the Nyctalope in 1908 with the novel ""L'Homme Qui Peut Vivre dans l'Eau"" (""The Man Who"