Why H.R. Giger’s Alien design is still iconic decades later

When Alien arrived in theaters in May 1979, it introduced us to a horror icon: the predatory Xenomorph. In his latest video, Kristian Williams takes a look at H.R. Geiger’s infamous design and investigates how and why it has resonated over decades.
Williams typically focuses on animation for his video essays. Fittingly, he takes a close look at one of the things that really makes the original Alien so good: H.R. Giger’s incredible artwork.
Giger was a Swiss artist who had studied arc