That's a boy. It's one of the xenomorph drones and I picked that as the original Alien is my favourite and the most like a horror film. The alien queen from Aliens has a "crown". As their lifecycle is very much like insects, she's in all likelihood the only female in the hive.
If you get chance to see it, do. Awesome characterisation, it disturbed me for a while.
Fair point, I was thinking of the queen in ‘s. Pedantically, I don’t think the original is a boy, all the characters were written asexually. Don’t forget the vagina dentata (or is that in ‘s too?)
The human characters were written for unisex casting, the alien was written as a monster, which thanks to Giger's hypersexual designs, ended up as a rapey mega-penis with a phallic head and phallic jaws. There is no vagina dentata in the film, what may look like an orifice on the underside of the facehuggers, hides a penis like protrusion which inseminates its victims. Not very ladylike. The eggs give birth to the facehuggers, so I suppose they could be interpreted as female as they act like a womb but in Alien they were meant to be cocoons. In the directors cut of Alien, it's revealed that the xenomorph cocoons it's victims, which then turn into the alien eggs. As that scene initially got cut, James Cameron was able to add the alien queen to the lifecycle, who lays the eggs.
Aye, the Count from Sesame Street kinda ruined it forever
Just looked on Amazon Prime and they only have the remake...suspected it was probably shite.
Same with The Hitcher, the only version available for streaming is the remake.
There are several threads for film villains already. Let's stick with horror, still plenty to pick from.
Yup ! Not one of my favourites but certainly counts.
he started it!
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