* 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Beast Within: The Making of Alien ( 2004 )

* Frank Welker as Hungry Beast Alien ( voice )

Alien ( 1979 ) combined the naturalistic acting and graphic violence of the 1970s with the monster movie plots of earlier decades, and used science fiction.

" As well as opinions on his appearance: " Little Gohan is abruptly in the icy metallic grip of one of his arch-nemeses, Frieza, a silvery androgynous giant who looks like a cross between the monster in Alien and Batman's Mr. Freeze.

" Out of the ten monsters used in the survey — which included vampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Michael Myers, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, and the Alien — Jason scored the highest in all the categories involving killing variables.

* Alien: Warrant Officer Ripley activates a self-destruct mechanism on Commercial Towing Vessel Nostromo in order to destroy a monster that wiped out her entire crew.

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.

A study was conducted by California State University's Media Psychology Lab, on the psychological appeal of movie monsters — Vampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, The Alien, and the shark from Jaws — which surveyed 1, 166 people nationwide ( United States ), with ages ranging from 16 to 91.

Sometimes, he accompanies any monster in the Alien Lifeform category.

In particular, there is not the foregrounding in Alien, as there is in the slasher film genre, of the character's sexual purity and abstinence relative to the other characters ( who would be, in accordance with the final girl convention, killed by the film's monster " because " of this ).

Alien Nine is characterized by its moe art style contrasting the realistic art style seen in most seinen series and varying levels graphic violence despite the young main characters, Pokémon-like monster designs, and initial appearances of a slice-of-life-esque series.

Del Toro's favorite film monsters are Frankenstein's monster, the Alien, Gill-man, Godzilla, and the Thing.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D +, calling it unoriginal, " as if someone had remade Alien with the monster played by a rusty erector set.

This monster re-appeared in the series The Return of Ultraman, as Alien Baltan Jr. ( Alien Baltan IV ) this baltan was smaller, was brown, and also, the claws were smaller and blunt.

This monster re-appeared in the series Ultraman 80, as Alien Baltan V & VI.

This monster re-appeared in the series Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero, as Alien Baltan ( Powered Baltan ) & Psycho-Baltan.

is a monster used by Alien Benzene to steal gold all over Japan.

Alien upped the ante on how scary a screen monster could be.

Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years, which has seen him star in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, Pretty In Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile and The Pledge.

The opposite has also been depicted, with Earth becoming a refuge to aliens as seen in the Men in Black series of movies, and Alien Nation series.

As seen in the Alien Nation telemovie " Body and Soul ," Newcomer / Human copulation is possible, but if it is attempted without proper training, the human will suffer serious injury.

The Weyland-Yutani corporation from Alien is also referenced as their logo can be seen on Alliance weapons.

A notable workaround does exist and can be seen in the second boss battle in Contra III: The Alien Wars and the battles against Reznor ( platform wall support ), Iggy ( battle platform ), Larry ( also the platform ), Morton, Ludwig, Roy, and Bowser in Super Mario World.

" Birthright " can also be seen as the antithesis of the SF stereotype of vicious, dangerous aliens who threaten mankind, as seen e. g. in Starship Troopers, the Predator and Alien movies, and many others.

At least one piece of footage featuring Remar made it into the final version of the film, when the Marines enter the processing station and the camera tilts down from the Alien nest, though Remar is not seen in close-up.

The next day, he went to the construction site and tried to tell them the truth about Alien Baltan IV but they would not believe him until he took them to the exact place he ’ d seen the alien.

Alien lights have been seen.

Monomolecular wires are seen in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Cyber City Oedo 808, Hyperion Cantos, Robert J. Sawyer's Illegal Alien, the manga Battle Angel Alita, Naruto, Hellsing, My-Hime, Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series, as well as the roleplaying games Shadowrun, and Cyberpunk 2020.

The 1997 Rolf de Heer film, Epsilon, also known as Alien Visitor, an alien in female form descends to Earth from Epsilon in the Southern Cross, and inspires an Outback traveler to better his planet.

Her eye-candy role, Tawny Madison, contrasts outrageously with the no-nonsense warrant officer Ellen Ripley of the Alien series, also played by Weaver.

On similar note, John Carpenter's The Thing ( 1982 ) was also a mix of horror and sci fi, however unlike Alien it was neither a box-office nor critical hit.

" Known Space " ( also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series ) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10, 000 stars, including Human Space ( 40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth ), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations.

In an essay The Alien Encounter Professor Patrick Parrinder's states that " any meaningful act of defamiliarization can only be relative, since it is not possible for man to imagine what is utterly alien to him ; the utterly alien would also be meaningless.

* Kenneth Johnson, producer and director of The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, V ( also creator ) and Alien Nation

Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).

Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values, not to mention political support from immigrants, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, some of which were later declared unconstitutional after their expiration by the Supreme Court ; they also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic, anti-republican values.

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

Phantom cats, also known as Alien Big Cats ( ABCs ), are large felines, such as jaguars or cougars, which have been purported to appear in regions outside their indigenous range.

California also passed an Alien Land Act which barred aliens, especially Asians, from holding title to land.

Weaver has also expressed interest in starring in a fifth Alien film.

Besides E. T., some believe that another earlier Spielberg film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), was also inspired by The Alien.

The length of the ship may also be an homage to the Nostromo of Alien, or the Sador's ship in the Roger Corman film Battle Beyond The Stars.

In 2005, a sci-fi film named The Salena Incident, also called Alien Invasion Arizona, was filmed in Superior.

Both Bemular and Redman were designed by Toru Narita, who also came up with the final design for Ultraman based on his Redman design, now resembling a less-scary Buck Rogers-style alien being, mixed with a bit of the iconic " Roswell Alien.

The ray can also be negated by similar energy ( see Alien Mephilas ).

Two of the Jerry Cornelius / Entropy Tango tracks were reworked with additional musicians and appeared on the Spirits Burning CD Alien Injection, also released in 2008.

Copious amounts of K-Y Jelly were also used to simulate saliva and to give the eponymous Alien of the 1979 film an overall slimy appearance as well as the blood of the eponymous Predator of the 1985 film which was mixed with Chemiluminescence fluid from green glowsticks.

It also utilized footage and props from Kakuranger and featured the costumes used by the Kakurangers as the footage for the Alien Rangers.

These restore ( and occasionally also shorten or omit, as in the case of Alien ) scenes or footage from movies which had been shortened for whatever reason ( including studio interference with the directors creative vision, inability to finish what was intended due to technology, or even the reactions of test audiences ).

* Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box ( also contains Dynamite Headdy and Alien Soldier ) ( February 23, 2006, Sega, PlayStation 2 *; developed by M2 )

In 1977 Foss worked for several month on studies for the movie Alien ( not being used in the movie ) and also did some designs of the planet Krypton for the movie Superman.