This is the house's connective tissue, and its elastic form conjures multiple metaphors: the muscular structure of an alien creature, a piece of toffee, a birth canal.
Gene Corman said another major inspiration was The Thing from Another World (1951), a Howard Hawks-directed science fiction film about a group of soldiers and scientists threatened by an alien creature in a remote Arctic research outpost.
It begins with a torture scene as a machine entity tries to extract information from an alien creature, hinting at a wider war that pits the mechanical against the biological.
Just as I start feeling a lot like a wide-eyed companion – one that probably has an alien creature hell-bent on inflicting a painful death watching them from the ceiling – suddenly the Tardis is illuminated by a pillar of burnt-orange vertical strip-lights.
Gorkon's staff was intended to be a massive bone from an alien creature he had killed, with the designs shaped out of green foam and approved by Meyer.
When he found out that she had written the screenplay for "The Black Stallion," Carroll Ballard's 1979 film about the friendship between a boy and a horse, which he had loved, Spielberg peppered her with questions about it and pitched her his idea about a young boy, a child of divorce, who befriends an alien creature who has been left behind on Earth.
Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film about a team of scientists who are stalked by an alien creature, which implants its embryos in an astronaut's body during a space flight.
This week, screening at 1 p.m. every day the museum is open, the movie is "Monsters vs. Aliens," a 3-D adventure in which a young woman is recruited to help save Earth from an alien creature after she's turned into a green giant by a meteorite.
This Friday, screening at 1 p.m., the movie is "Monsters vs. Aliens," a 3-D adventure in which a young woman is recruited to help save Earth from an alien creature after she's turned into a green giant by a meteorite.
A 20 year-old girl is, as far as I'm concerned, an alien creature; she speaks an absolutely different language.
