Aliens Poster # 3 Chestburster Alien Birth 1979 Ridley Scott movie
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| Management number | 170665 | Release Date | 2025/07/09 | List Price | $24.00 | Model Number | 170665 | ||
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The design of the chestburster was inspired by Francis Bacon's 1944 painting Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
H.R. Giger's original design resembled a plucked chicken, which was redesigned and refined into the final version seen onscreen. Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon credits his experiences with Crohn's disease for inspiring the chest-busting scene. For the filming of the chestburster scene the cast members knew that the creature would be bursting out of John Hurt, and had seen the chestburster puppet, but they had not been told that fake blood would also be bursting out in every direction from high-pressure pumps and squibs.
The scene was shot in one take using an artificial torso filled with blood and viscera, with Hurt's head and arms coming up from underneath the table. The chestburster was shoved up through the torso by a puppeteer who held it on a stick. When the creature burst through the chest a stream of blood shot directly at Veronica Cartwright, shoc
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