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From Dallas getting mauled to Parker getting impaled, the character deaths in Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien movie — especially those at the hands of the pesky xenomorph — are horribly gory. In the years since, the Alien franchise has explored everything in the genre space from high-octane action thriller to philosophical sci-fi epic. But Scott’s original film is a mix of haunted house movie and slasher movie. It’s an Agatha Christie whodunit crossed with a monster movie.
While it’s certainly a triumphant moment to see Ripley eject the xenomorph into space after all the death and destruction it’s caused, it’s not a particularly gory death. Once it’s out of the ship, it still clings onto the outside, so Ripley has to turn on the thrusters to get rid of it once and for all — and even the rocket thrusters aren’t powerful enough to break this perfect organism’s black, rubbery skin.
5 Ash Ash's Death Is Horrific — But Thankfully, He Doesn't Have Human Blood Ash is initially introduced as a regular member of the crew, but he later turns out to be an android with the company’s interests at heart. Weyland-Yutani has told Ash to bring the xenomorph back to Earth to be studied, and that the lives of his crewmates are expendable. When he’s found out, those crewmates aren’t too pleased.
But when the xenomorph finally catches up to Dallas, most of his death takes place mercifully off-screen. Dallas turns just in time to see the xenomorph lunging out at him, but then the movie cuts away to the screen getting scrambled and the crew reacting to his demise with horror. This is a classic case where it’s even scarier if the film doesn’t show it. Like most of the shark attacks in Jaws, Dallas’ grisly death is much worse in the audience’s head than anything Scott could show on-screen.
2 Parker Poor Parker Gets Ripped To Shreds As the xenomorph is approaching a petrified Lambert, Parker gallantly jumps in to save her. But as soon as he comes close to the alien, it casually bats him away with its tail. If Parker had just stayed down and let the xenomorph kill Lambert, he might’ve been able to avoid its wrath. But Parker cares too much about his crewmates to do that. When Ripley was attacked by Ash, Parker stepped in with a flamethrower to save her.
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