Often referred to as the chestburster scene, this iconic moment in 1979’s Alien remains one of the most iconic and unsettling scenes in any horror movie ever due to its startling and graphic nature.

If Álvarez’s goal was to bring a nostalgic touch to his movie, he definitely nailed it, and with great skill, by adding the chestburster scene ... possibility that an alien embryo has been ...

I’d only watched the first Alien up until that point [and ... that they had to maneuver it around. The baby Chestburster, it was his scene. I was just the canvas. Those were really fun days.

Thus, the chestburster (the baby version of the Xenomorph) emerges. The chestburster scene in Alien has solidified itself as one of those crucial moments in cinema history. Aside from the design ...