Cailee Spaeny looking terrified as Rain in Alien Romulus
Alien: Romulus' VFX Supervisor Eric Barba has revealed just how practical the film’s terrifying chestburster scene really was. Directed by Fede Álvarez, the 2024 sci-fi horror returns to the roots of the Alien franchise, featuring a mix of practical effects to bring its nightmarish creatures—the Xenomorphs and facehuggers—to life.
Well, that team, that sequence, hurt me, because, literally, I had a smile from ear to ear all day long watching the playback on the monitor. I couldn't believe how great it looked. But honestly, once it got all cut together, we did some little touch ups and paint outs of things that, naturally, you'd have to do, but that's pretty much 99% in camera.
What Alien: Romulus' Practical Chestburster Scene Means The Craft Behind The Carnage Close The terrifying design of Alien: Romulus’ new Xenomorphs was achieved through a masterful collaboration between actors, makeup artists, puppeteers, cinematographer Galo Olivares, and special effects artist Alec Gillis. This careful coordination mirrors the groundbreaking work done in Scott’s Alien , where practical effects heightened the realism and horror of its goriest moments.
Posts 1 By using practical effects, Alien: Romulus allowed its cast to interact with real, tangible elements, heightening the intensity of their performances. Aileen Wu previously detailed the physically demanding nature of the chestbursting scene, where she wore a heavy prosthetic chest piece—an experience reminiscent of John Hurt’s ordeal during Alien’s original 1979 chestburster sequence, which similarly used a mechanical rig hidden beneath the actor’s torso .
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