H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist who won an Oscar in 1980 for creating the iconic extraterrestrial monster in Ridley Scott's “Alien,” has died at age 74. Reuters first relayed the news from Swiss ...

The Oscar-winning Swiss set and creature designer of Ridley Scott's "Alien" died following a fall in his Zurich home. By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R.

Swiss surrealist HR Giger, best known for designing the ET abomination in Ridley Scott's Alien , has passed away aged 74. According to Swiss television, Giger died on Monday from injuries obtained ...

The first Facehugger design for "Alien" was initially much larger and more grotesque. Thankfully H. R. Giger scaled it down ...

For more than 40 years, the Swiss surrealist confronted his nightmares by making them ours. Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, died Monday at ...

“My intention was to show the way Giger literally lived within his art and made the uncanny, the sinister, and the scary his home.” Secluded behind the drawn shades of his Swiss chateau, sci-fi man-in ...

Horror and sci-fi fans have lost another one of their most inspirational and iconic artists. We are deeply saddened by the news coming to us from Swiss public television channel SRF of the passing of ...

His subsequent design for the huge queen mondyrt that battles Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in “Aliens” (1986) added to the mystique. “Alien 3” (1992), “Alien Resurrection” (1997) and prequel “Prometheus” ...

Cult artist H.R. Giger was a big deal right after ALIEN was released in 1979. All of my friends ran out and bought his books Necronomicon and Giger’s Alien. His “biomechanical” designs had the ...