Thank You, John Hurt, for One of the Greatest Death Scenes in Cinema History!

The behind-the-scenes details of the chestburster scene from Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror classic, Alien, are widely known, at this point: the Nostromo's crew (minus John Hurt's Gilbert Kane) were only given the most basic outline of the scene, with Sigourney Weaver claiming that the script simply read "this thing emerges." So, when Nick Allder, the […]