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** When they interrogate him, the sight of his decapitated head, covered in his own fluids, next to his torn-apart body, is deeply disturbing. Not helped by his completely calm, neutral demeanor, distorted voice with a strange high pitch, or his unsettling smile. Can't blame Parker for [[KillItWithFire using a flamethrower to finish him off]] afterwards.

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** When they interrogate him, the sight of his decapitated head, covered in his own fluids, next to his torn-apart body, is deeply disturbing. Not helped by his completely calm, neutral demeanor, distorted voice with a strange high pitch, or his unsettling smile. Not helped by the fact that, aside from the small glitch he has when moving his eyes to look at Ripley, [[TheUnblinking Ash never blinks]] throughout the scene. Can't blame Parker for [[KillItWithFire using a flamethrower to finish him off]] afterwards.
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* ''NightmareFuel/AliensColonialMarines''



* ''NightmareFuel/AlienIsolation''
* ''NightmareFuel/AliensColonialMarines''
* ''NightmareFuel/AlienVsPredator''

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[[caption-width-right:350:No one can hear you scream.]]
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* The menus for the Alien Anthology blu-Ray set are quite eerie. To elaborate, they are framed as being a computer terminal that displays footage from the films along with information on key points from them. This is all accompanied by the eerie humming of the ''Nostromo'''s computer from the first film, which renders the menus a very creepy, clinical feel.

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* The menus for the Alien Anthology blu-Ray Blu-ray disc set are quite eerie. To elaborate, they are framed as being a computer terminal that displays footage from the films along with information on key points from them. This is all accompanied by the eerie humming of the ''Nostromo'''s computer from the first film, which renders the menus a very creepy, clinical feel.

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* The original alien concept was made by the artist, H. R. Giger, who based his art style on his once frequent nightmares (ala the same one that caused Creator/HPLovecraft to introduce the concept of the EldritchAbomination). Despite the negative connotation of the word "nightmare", he apparently saw beauty in the creature.

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* The original alien concept was made by the artist, H. R. Giger, who based his art style on his once frequent once-frequent nightmares (ala (''à la'' the same one that caused Creator/HPLovecraft to introduce the concept of the EldritchAbomination). Despite the negative connotation of the word "nightmare", he apparently saw beauty in the creature.



** Just Bolaji Badejo moving around in the unedited test footage with a mocked-up Xenomorph head is very creepy. For that, we give him credit.
*** To expand: The guy's basically in his underwear, wandering around the set with a paper-mache alien head on his head, but ''still'' manages to create a sense of menace and alien surrealness that's quite unsettling.

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** Just Bolaji Badejo moving around in the unedited test footage with a mocked-up Xenomorph head is very creepy. For that, we give him credit.
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The guy's basically in his underwear, wandering around the set with a paper-mache papier-mâché alien head on his head, but ''still'' manages to create a sense of menace and alien surrealness that's quite unsettling.unsettling. For that, we give him credit.
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* First off, just the film's iconic {{tagline}}: ''In space, no one can hear you scream''.
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* Giger's unique design of both the Xenomorph and the sets. ''[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/b/b7/Bigchap01.jpg You can see]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/1/1a/Gigersonwithdome.jpg the human skull]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/c/cc/Gigerssonnodome.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150102055058 that the alien's]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/c/cf/GigersAlien.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150102055920 head is]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/6/60/Gigersson003.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150220221917 based around]]''. Not to mention, the creature is so carefully designed to actually blend in with the rest of the environment. Meaning that these guys can and will appear everywhere. Made especially worse when you realize that the design of the Xeno often means you've been looking at it ''the whole damn time!''

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* Giger's unique design of both the Xenomorph and the sets. ''[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/b/b7/Bigchap01.jpg You can see]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/1/1a/Gigersonwithdome.jpg the human skull]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/c/cc/Gigerssonnodome.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150102055058 jpg/ that the alien's]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/c/cf/GigersAlien.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150102055920 jpg/ head is]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/6/60/Gigersson003.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150220221917 jpg/ based around]]''. Not to mention, the creature is so carefully designed to actually blend in with the rest of the environment. Meaning that these guys can and will appear everywhere. Made especially worse when you realize that the design of the Xeno often means you've been looking at it ''the whole damn time!''
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** Once Ash is revealed to be an android, his personality shifts dramatically. He immediately assaults Ripley, violently throwing her against the walls of the ship and then trying to suffocate her with a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rolled-up pornographic magazine]]. The look of [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness pure violent rage on his face]] is terrifying to behold after his previous calm demeanor. When Parker and Lambert come to rescue her, it takes their combined strength just to pull him off her, and his movements become more erratic, he vomits out that white goop while letting out [[HellIsThatNoise distorted, high-pitched noises]] until he is brutally decapitated by Parker, and still fights back until Lambert stabs him to death.

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** Once Ash is revealed to be an android, his personality shifts dramatically. He immediately assaults Ripley, violently throwing her against the walls of the ship and then trying to suffocate her with a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rolled-up pornographic magazine]]. The look of [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness pure violent rage on his face]] is terrifying to behold after his previous calm demeanor. When Parker and Lambert come to rescue her, it takes their combined strength just to pull him off her, and his movements become more erratic, he vomits out that white goop while letting out [[HellIsThatNoise distorted, high-pitched noises]] until he is brutally decapitated by Parker, and still fights back until Lambert stabs him to death.electrocutes him.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[JumpScare SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[JumpScare SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[JumpScare SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!]]]]'''
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--->'''Ash''': I can't lie to you about your chances, but...you have my sympathies (grins sarcastically)

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--->'''Ash''': I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies sympathies. (grins sarcastically)

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