Random Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Alien (43 items)

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  (#32) The Crew Thought Outside the Box to Make the Alien More Terrifying

  Shredded condoms were used to create tendons of the beast's ferocious jaws and KY Jelly was used to make its face extra slimy. 

  Additionally, the inside of the alien eggs, as seen by Kane, was composed of real organic material, including cattle hearts and stomachs.

  The tail of the facehugger was made of sheep intestine. The internal organs of the dead facehugger on which Ash performs an autopsy were made using fresh shellfish, oysters, and a sheep kidney.
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  (#41) In Other Countries, the Title of the Franchise Translates as "Death"

  Alien's Hungarian title translated back means "the eighth passenger is the death," and all other films in the franchise likewise had titles that end with the word "death": 

  Aliens - "the name of the planet: death"
  Alien 3 - "final solution: death"
  Alien Resurrection - "the resurrection of death"

  The original releases ignored the word "Alien" in the title, but it has since been retroactively inserted after more people became familiar with the franchise's English name. Despite this, the alien is again referred to as "death" in the Hungarian title of Alien vs. Predator, translating as "the death against the predator."
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  (#14) Sigourney Weaver's Aliens Pay Day Was the Entire Alien Budget

  Sigourney Weaver was paid $11 million to come back as Ripley, which was the entire budget of Alien.
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  (#16) The Power Loader in Aliens Was Rigged to Get... Excited

  While filming the power loader battle, the crew played a practical joke on Sigourney Weaver by strategically strapping a balloon connected to an air pipe to where her backside would be. When they pumped up the balloon, Weaver thought that the man operating the power loader inside it was getting aroused behind her.
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  (#24) The Alien Was Always Kept Under-Wraps

   

  To preserve the shock-value of the alien's appearance, no production images of it were released, not even to author Alan Dean Foster when he was writing the novelization of the first film.
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  (#11) The Giant Space Jockey from Alien (and Later Prometheus) Was Burned Down by a Stray Cigarette

  20th Century Fox Studios almost did not allow the 26-foot-tall space jockey or the giant alien pilot to be in the film. This was because, at the time, props for movies weren't this large and it was hard to justify this big of a prop that would only be used for one scene. However, conceptual artist Ron Cobb convinced them to leave the scene in the movie, as it would be the film's "Cecil B DeMille shot," showing the audience that this wasn't some low-budget B-movie. 

  The large space jockey sculpture was designed and painted by H.R. Giger himself, who was disappointed he couldn't put any finishing touches on it before the scene was filmed. Sadly, in the end, the space jockey prop was burned and destroyed by a burning cigarette left on the prop.
  

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