British director Sir Ridley Scott has returned to the Alien franchise more than 30 ... But the catalyst for the new film Prometheus is not the sleek, razor-jawed H.R. Giger-designed xenomorph ...

“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

(Of note, this list only really works if you exclude the two Alien vs. Predator movies because elements of those contradict the canon of Prometheus.) Though, oddly enough, Fede Álvarez’s large ...