What happened to my monster?

I fell into the social media hole a while back and haven't posted any shit here because of that.  I am back because of all the political posts that make the hairs on my neck bristle.  So...

I haven't seen ALIEN: COVENANT and I am not super excited about seeing it, because of grass.  I'll explain.  It is my opinion that the XENOMORPH XX121 is so closely tied to technology that, when brought to Earth or an Earth-like planet, completely loses the element of horror which was already intensified by the sense of claustrophobia when trapped inside a spaceship light years away from home.  I imagine that creatures like Giger's Alien wouldn't want to come to an Earth-like planet.  My worst nightmares of the alien were not of it hiding in bushes and running through grass fields.  The alien blends into a spaceship.  Pipes, beams, tubes, wires, levers, steam, corrosion, shadows-also, all things that go along with the "used future" type environment-are where the alien hides.

I am also not a fan of how the alien creature is being represented by different artists.  I am cool with it's digitigrade movement in Alien³, that made sense and most fans agreed that it made sense that the creature would move in such a fashion, because it was an interesting, dare I say an 'alien' concept.  I don't like that my beloved nightmare has been reduced to a "xeno" that walks like a t-rex or something.  Cane's "son" had feet like a human being for god's sake!  Have you seen the guy (Bolaji Badejo) that wore the suit?  They chose him because he was so tall and skinny and they didn't want the "man-in-a-suit" look.  The end result is an extremely tall and skinny humanoid covered with odd ribbed textures, wires, tubes, nodules, bone, metal, and shadows, and certainly not, as I have seen them described, insect or reptilian in nature (If you don't know, make something up, I guess).  These creatures are-what Giger was drawing was- "biomechanical".  Described by the artist in his book "HR Giger ARh+", he describes his style as a representation of "human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship" (from Wikipedia).  

The xenomorph removed from a spaceship's cold, dark corridors, to me isn't scary at all, and with anthropomorphic canine style feet, it just isn't the same creature.  Ash mentioned the creature's "structural perfection" which still haunts me.  I am sure that this comment is in reference to it's microbiological profile, more so than it's final form, given that this is the aspect of the creature that Ash had the most time to study, but I really can't help feeling this way.

I am not grumbling about the "prequels" because of plot, characters, mistakes or the use of CGI (though I am not a fan at all of it.), it is a little deeper.  I think that there has been some copping out somewhere by someone in favor of mass appeal over little details like WHAT MAKES THE MONSTER SCARY IN THE FIRST PLACE.  If I am wrong about this, consider if the movie had kept the original title "Starbeast" and instead of using Giger's design they used this guy from Star Wars:

What has happened to my monster is they took it out of the spaceship, amongst the silicon, steel, plastic, rubber, glass and composite materials and made it walk like a t-rex , made lots of them and started giving them names like whatever-'morph' and killing them with guns.  Some of the new designs, although awesome artwork, don't look like a biomechanical creature at all to begin with looking more like the concepts that were thrown out in the production process of 1979's Alien.  It has been reduced to nothing more than a monster with vague mass appeal because it kinda looks like "the Alien" only new and improved, which is fine, but brings up the question: Why not just make entirely NEW monsters?  I've seen the same thing in other contexts as well, it is like the programmers are literally taking an old design skeleton and just re-skinning it with a prefab texture of some sort and giving it whatever movement style looks the coolest, choosing from the movement styles already created for other animals, and more importantly a new product.  From this, I hope they get years and years and years of material, really make those bucks and once again prove which species is worse.

Not a perfect movie, but still on my list would be SPECIES.  It involved a biomechanical creature that was quite scary and I think it did a better job of emphasizing the unique horror factor of the nature of the creature than any of the sequels did.  Like I said, not a perfect movie, but it is on my list.

I think that the main problem stems from Fox being so smug, slow, difficult and secretive.  Fans didn't have anything but the movie, so they created their own art, copied other fan art, etc., and eventually created their own universe.  Then comes the comic books and video games.  If Fox had not been so dumb about things the whole franchise wouldn't be so divided about everything all the time.  This is why so many people rolled their eyes at AVP: It isn't what everyone had envisioned in their experience of the alien/aliens universe.  If Fox had maybe worked more closely with fans, had artists make excellent Alien artwork for the fans, write up world information that is cannon, license companies to make toys and comics that are also cannon, collectibles, etc., I guess what I'm saying is they just flat out didn't give a crap about how much people liked the movies.  Giger isn't with us anymore but he had already seen his creation become twisted, yet he wasn't a douche about it at all, maybe a little frustrated.  In closing, here's an interesting quote from a friend of Giger's:

I'd like to see someone even vaguely compile how many versions of the Alien are floating around the world in models and stuff; there must be close to 100,000–little toys, things. All the Japanese horror comics just plunder his style.-Christopher Stein (from Wikipedia)

Lost

Where have I been? I've been doing stuff. Dealing with pain, loss, anger, depression, aging, reflection and frustration. Not to mention the constant search for meaning. Lots of weird stuff has happened since my last post. No need in going into details. I am happy where I work for now, but I'm planning to attend school to obtain a certificate. It is a realistic goal that will enable me to increase my pay to a living  wage. I'm making $10 an hour which is very generous but still not nearly enough for me to live off of, even with fairly low rent. Life can seem like a box of dog turds, chocolate covered dog turds and dog turds with the promise of a chocolatey center, but it's all really chocolate in the end. You know what I mean.

AYO

I need you [x8]

We poppin' like ayo
All my bitches got real hair chilling with the top down
Screaming like ayo
I'mma take her ass down when she bring her friend around
Fuck ‘em both like ayo
I'm a bougie ass nigga left the roof at home
We popping like ayo, ayo, ayo
But don't be acting like I need you

Ahhh! Aye babe this my new shit
I'm the black Richie Rich with the roof missing
If it don't make dollars it don't make sense
Z, wake up like I gotta get it
And I got an engine full of trunk space
I get money three ways, fucking bitches three ways
7 different foreigns plus she's no hablé
But I make that bitch walk with some cheesecake
Yeah, I'm the coldest nigga, icy
Lookin in the mirror like I wish I can be me
She too into me, I'm more into money
My hobby's her body, that pussy's my lobby
I'mma eat it, I'mma eat it
I won't lie, hope my dick's too conceited
Uh, told her she's my wife for the weekend
But don't be acting like I need you cause we poppin' like

Ayo
All my bitches got real hair chilling with the top down
Screaming like ayo
I'mma take her ass down when she bring her friend around
Fuck ‘em both like ayo
I'm a bougie ass nigga left the roof at home
We popping like ayo, ayo, ayo
But don't be acting like I need you

I'm in a Rolls, you don't roll right
My chain shine brighter than a strobe light
I'm tryna fuck Coco, this don't concern Ice
If I motor boat, she gonna motorbike
A nigga ain't worried about nothin'
Rehabilitation just had me worried about fucking
Money, decision-making only worried about stuntin
She worried about me, her nigga worried about cuffin'
I wanna see her body (bodyyyy)
And she said get inside of me
I wanna feel you baby (yeahhh)
Just bring the animal right out of me
We lovin', she love it
Especially when I go down on her
Now we fucking, she thugging
Getting loud (cause we poppin' like)

Ayo
All my bitches got real hair chilling with the top down
Screaming like ayo
I'mma take her ass down when she bring her friend around
Fuck ‘em both like ayo
I'm a bougie ass nigga left the roof at home
We popping like ayo, ayo, ayo
But don't be acting like I need you

Huh, look, alright
Now I can spot your bitch from a mile away
Valentine in that pussy, it's a holiday
(Uh, you losin' money, I win mills Dr. J
She's gonna follow my lead, Simon Says)
Paper, paper, I'm riding scrapers in California
Car smell like ammonia, we got that stank on us
(Never been an outcast that stank on ya
From the ghetto but my bitch like Apollonia)
We in the hood, tatted like a Mexican
Car too fast, give a fuck about pedestrians
(In my section less niggas, more lesbians)
Got your bitch, I'm that nigga
(Yeah we poppin' like)

Ayo
All my bitches got real hair chilling with the top down
Screaming like ayo
I'mma take her ass down when she bring her friend around
Fuck ‘em both like ayo
I'm a bougie ass nigga left the roof at home
We popping like ayo, ayo, ayo
But don't be acting like I need you

This that fly shit, King shit only
Drop top, no roof - ahhh!

"Being famous is amazing when it's for ur music and talent. I'm tired of being famous for a mistake I made when i was 18. I'm cool & over it!" ~ Chris Brown

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the big payoff

I started working in healthcare in 2000.  I was an Emergency Room Transporter at my local county hospital.  It was a job that I got because I needed one badly at the time and my mother knew someone in HR there that pulled some strings.  It was very low pay and the work was dirty, dirty, dirty.  I saw some cool stuff, though and I actually liked the busy environment, plus I felt like I was doing something that mattered.  I hated being *just* a transporter.  I didn't want to be an EMT, because the hours for that kind of work are horrible.  I wanted to be an ER technician.  The hospital eventually laid off all the transporters so I was at square one.  I went to school in 2000 to become a CNA and was disappointed to find out that the hospital wouldn't hire me without CNA experience.  My first CNA job was at a privately ran, poorly staffed nursing home that I grew to love despite it's uncaring nurses, low wages, difficult residents and unsanitary conditions.  I was exposed to TB, now I test positive.  I caught pneumonia and passed out on the job.  I was always sick and I learned quick not to call in with NVD because "we have bathrooms".  I worked hard but had little to show for it, except that I can now say that I have had a full colostomy bag thrown at me.  I took care of some precious people and I loved that part of the job.  I have to say that I did it like a champ.  As a male CNA, I was usually approached for help getting people off the floor, off the toilet and up in bed.  I finally got a call from the big hospital downtown and was offered a job on the orthopedic floor.  I took it.  The work was a step up from the nursing home.  It was still grunt work.  Vital signs q4hrs, turn q4hrs, feed them, help them to the bathroom, I's and O's, coffee for the family, etc (times up to 30 patients).  I did this for a few years, working with cliquey young nurses that got into nursing because of the promise of high wages, but hated doing the work.  There were some other nurses that were amazing, though, and I always enjoyed working with them.  I usually ended up working by myself, covering the whole floor-some thirty patients or more.  I worked nights, though so It wasn't really a big deal.  I managed.  All I wanted was to get in the ER though.  I finally got my chance.  I got a transfer.  I was an ER technician.  They trained me as a phlebotomy and EKG tech plus I got trained in applying a plaster cast, and some other skills.  Then I got to actually perform the job.  I loved it too.  Running to do a STAT EKG, responding to a code blue, drawing labs, running them to the lab, transporting patients to ICU, doing CPR (even though I puked my first time).  I even loved doing the dirty stuff like cleaning the room after a patient was discharged and restocking the supplies, etc.  It was all fun to me.  The problem came, when I was told by a coworker that I need to watch my back because some people there didn't like me.  I never missed a vein, I always drew labs correctly, I was there on time and in a good attitude, I never complained even when I was given more than my fair share of work to do (obviously), I was proactive to empty the dirty laundry bins and clean rooms, even rooms that were not my section, I was always eager to help other techs that needed help and I could do EKGs quickly and get the printout to the doctor, no problem.  I am not sure why anyone would have a problem with me, except that I was different and (of course) fat.  I didn't really fit in with the other people.  They were experienced ER people and extreme sports people and they believed that they had seen it all and didn't have time for noobs like me.  They were saving lives and I was just getting in the way.  After being told that I needed to watch my back, I immediately started looking for another job.  Anyway, the next job I end up getting is with a major cellphone company as a customer service representative.  If you have read any of my old blog posts, you know how that went.  Anyway, the whole point of this post is to inform you that I have finally found my place in a print shop doing bindery work and delivering the finished products.  All in all, it was totally worth it.  All the suffering I did on the job.  It built my character and gave me perspective.  It made me actually enjoy standing in one place while I do nothing but coil bind for an hour.  Bottom line: I am happier than i have been in a long time.

UFO ALIEN

I was you-toobin' it one day early this year and I found a video that had images that startled me.  I am a fan of viewing startling images on google searches and haven't seen it all, but I have probably seen most of it.  I always have searched for alien pictures and stuff and am familiar with most of the fake rubber aliens out there.  A few of the same fakes are all over the internet in you tube videos titled things like
REAL ALIEN
LEAKED ALIEN PIC
ALIENS R REAL BELIEVE!!!!!
REAL ALIEN FOOTAGE
etc.
accompanied by a picture of this prop...

...posed in one fashion or another so as to look like a REAL LEAKED ALIEN PIC.  There are other fake ones I can spot in a hurry.
Never mind the dead SLOTH that people are constantly posting and saying it is a dead alien.  There is also a picture of a dead cat or rat-like creature in a bear-trap that is circulating the web.

I use my intuition when looking at these images.  By intuition, I mean a complex cross-referencing of all the data I have accumulated, in small amounts, about subjects like xenobiology, psychology, anatomy and physiology, UFO myths and folklore, conspiracy theories, new age theology, logic, and much, much more.  One thing I like to tell myself late at night when I have the heebie-jeebies, is that extraterrestrial beings would probably not do things that are creepy and scary to us-things like hide in the dark and make wailing, screeching sounds while clawing on the door.  That is just hollywood and fear-based thinking that makes us expect that.  They wouldn't do things that are gross, sickening and weird either, at least nothing more sickening than us humans do.

Watch this video



More often than not, the fakes are a prop, paper mache or a dead animal.  I don't think this is a prop.  I haven't seen it in any movies nor have I seen in in any search results for ufo, alien, conspiracy or new age subjects.  At all.  The being does not appear to be completely, over-the-top, mind blowingly realistic except for the details on the hand.  If this is a prop, it hasn't been used for anything else and must have been destroyed.



IMAGE 1

 Okay, so what is that thing?  It looks like a space capsule or something.  Where was this taken?  Can't really make heads or tails out of it, but the interesting thing is that the image is of a computer monitor.  Why not the actual image?  Perhaps the person that took the photo did not have access to such an image as this.  I didn't notice this at first, but there are some things blacked out on this picture.  The face of the man on the left is blacked out and whatever he is standing in front of (or whatever is standing in front of him) is blacked out looks like it was done with a marker and not on the image we are looking at, but the one that is on the dell monitor.  I am not sure, but it also looks like something on the bottom right of the screen is blacked out.  Who knows?  Right?  Looks like a green hard hat.

IMAGE 2

Okay, here we go.  Same weird capsule thing.  It appears seamless.  Kind of like a tea kettle, though.  Not too completely strange.  There is another person with their face blacked out.   Green hard hats.  There isn't really any standard color system for hard hat color meanings that I am aware of.  A google search confirms this.

IMAGE 3

No idea what is going on here.  Looks like it was set in concrete.  It also looks like they are trying to contain it or something.  Not sure what the strange looking fence around it is for.  Green, yellow and white hard hats.  not doing construction of anything recognizable.  Lab coats?  Then the hard hat colors might mean something and the green hat wearing guy isn't doing anything but watching, so that goes along with the "green hard hats are for management" system, but managing what?  These photos were probably taken from a smartphone.

IMAGE 4

Okay a separate room with 3 greens and one yellow.  Looks like they are watching some type of indicator or sensor readout or something.  Waiting.  There appears to be a painting on the wall on the right side behind the monitor, but it is only partially visible.  Looks like a building with a logo above it.  A "K" or an "R"?


IMAGE 5

Alright.  This image is a little shocking to me, since the being in the shot isn't one of the rubber alien props I have seen before.  What is it in?  Looks like a tub.  What is the card for and why does it appear so messy?  If this is a hoax, why not make the card more "official" looking?  What was marked out on the original photo?  What was in the tub with the being on the bottom right corner?  Looks like something else was marked out.  I cannot tell if the hand in the photo is gloved or not/human or not.



IMAGE 6

Another image of the being also pictured in IMAGE 5 shows details of the room where this was revealed to the photographer.  Looks like a training room.  I have no clue as to where this is located.  The water bottle on the desk is not one of a brand I am familiar with.  Not sure what the coffee mug says to the far left corner but the emblem is circular and appears to have the last two letters "sa" (nasa?).


IMAGE 7

First off, this appears to be the being's left hand with three long fingers (possibly a thumb) and fingernails that are darker colored.  There appears to be some debris on the creature's hand that looks like some type of growth or maybe a blister.  One of the knuckles appears to be bruised.  The hand is positioned at an angle next to the being's hip that indicates that it's elbow is bent which makes the hands possibly come down closer to the being's knees when standing erect.  The being's hip is more fleshy colored possibly due to the bright light shining down on the hand.  There appears to be a sleeve or a wristband on the being's wrist.  The hand pointing at the screen appears to be human and is perhaps the person who has access to these pictures pointing at the hand and maybe describing some greater detail that is lost through jpeg compression.

I am not going to say this is the real deal, but if it isn't we will probably see a movie with this prop in it some time in the next few years.

CONTRAILS ARE REAL!

A very funny thing has happened during my lifetime.  I, for one, having always been a little slow for lack of a better word, pretty much grew up in a vacuum-not many friends (none outside of school), I was basically Napoleon Dynamite.

Napoleon daydreams his way through school, doodling ligers and fantasy creatures, and reluctantly deals with the various bullies who torment him, particularly the obnoxious sports jock Don and the selfish, out-of-shape Randy. Napoleon likes to make up stories about himself whilst assuming a sullen and aloof attitude.

Everything that I learned (outside of school) was from old books and encyclopedias.  Old, outdated information written for people from a different age, a different generation.  I read these books over and over.  I read about metaphysics, ufos, the occult, the bible, airplanes, satellites, rockets, guns, the solar system and all that and that was my connection with reality.  Otherwise, I didn't have any connection to the rest of the world until later on.  During those years, I did a lot of thinking about reality.  The internet really did provide quick and easy access to the rest of the world, and I am not talking about email.  I am talking about search engines.  I could read about everything that interested me.  I always wanted to talk about stuff to other people that were of similar interest.  I wanted to talk about it so as to share ideas, learn from each other and challenge my beliefs.  I don't think that this is an unhealthy thing to do, but it sure is hard to find people that also wish to do that.  There are plenty of people that just want to preach.  Pretty soon I got to researching metaphysics, ufos, the occult and everything else I was interested and I absorbed a lot of information.  I copied the text and printed it so tiny it was barely legible and absorbed the information as if it were the truth.  I was pretty naive, early on, because I looked at the internet as a sort of encyclopedia.  If it's on the internet, it must be true, documented facts, right?

I fell victim to many conspiracy theories.  Actually, they are all connected.  If you study ufos long enough you will also find that they are connected with chemtrails and the secret government, which is connected with the illuminati and, of course, the illuminati are responsible for everything bad.  Well, it gets even crazier when you find out that the moon is fake and was put there by reptilian aliens.  It gets crazier still, and I don't even want to revisit some of the crazy things that I used to read about.  I guess I eventually came to the conclusion that it is all crap.  If you can't accept one thing without accepting all of it, throw it all out.  I am not saying that these things are not real, but the perception of these things is very interesting to me.  I believe that the perception of the illuminati as an all powerful force behind the scenes is actually a projection of our pyramid based class system and the real conspiracy is the one we are all in against ourselves.

I began seeing that the conspiracy theories were all coalescing into a sort of religion and I didn't like it.  I didn't trust it.  I began questioning all the big conspiracy acts like Alex Jones, Jesse Ventura and David Icke.  I changed from an attitude of "it is so crazy it has to be real", to an attitude of "this is ridiculous".  I still see contrails, but I certainly don't subscribe to any conspiracy theories about them.

Horror in movies

As always, IMO...
Okay, as usual, I am not any kind of authority on this subject.  I wouldn't call myself a "horror movie buff" or whatever they call themselves nowadays, but I love horror.  My first horror movie was Alien, and I was totally obsessed with it and had the toy.

I was very young and it was on cable.  My mom covered my eyes in some scenes, but I remember that I was intrigued by the "space jockey" grossed out by the "facehugger", bothered that it got into Kane's helmet, afraid to see Kane die horribly and I was really scared of the "chestburster".  We know what it grows up to be, but good lord, "Kane's son" is alarming.

 I think the colors of the facehugger and the chestburster were what got me.  I am not saying that I liked the way that Alien made me feel as a kid, but I was obsessed with it.

I don't know if it was my very young age or what, but no other movie I have watched has had that same effect on me.  Sure I have been freaked out by a few other movies, but not to the level that Alien got me.  Not to the point of obsession.  Aside from my age being a factor, I wonder what else caused this.

Reveal/Know versus Suggest/Imagine
Alien scared me because I only got quick glimpses at the creatures and, there was plenty of screen time before Kane died, there was a lot of time to be puzzled and tension to build up.  I didn't know what to expect.  Ignorance is not bliss (well, ignorance of your own ignorance may be bliss).  Not knowing can be a terrible thing that every single human being can relate to.

The Alien was only fully visible at the end of the movie, but even then, it wasn't clear.  If the creature had looked "man-in-rubber-suit-like", the ending could have ruined it, even if it were not clearly visible, I would have seen a man in a rubber suit.  Great effort was put into making the creature not look or move* that way.
In the rest of the Alien movies, the creatures are not explained scientifically at all.  They are called "facehuggers" and "chestbursters", etc.  There is no mystery, no subtlety to them.  I guess it is a result of marketing ALIENS toys to kids, but that sort of thing ruins it. They are given full display and in some cases, look like a man-in-a-rubber-suit or they look CGI.

I played a little game called Call of Cthulhu for years.  A role playing game set in the 1920's in H.P. Lovecraft's world of ultimate cosmic horror and the fragile human psyche.  We had a lot of fun, but even though we were not being too serious (party of 6 with pizza) there were times when I got a little freaked by the combination of the story that was being told, a brief description of a something my character perceived and the music the keeper (dungeon master) played and not one time did I see a picture of a monster we encountered.  The only picture I had was of my character~a picture that I drew on the character sheet and my imagination.

I think that another reason I became more obsessed with Alien is because the setting, which is set some time in the future.  Is it 50 years?  100 years?  Is America still around?  Are there other, less hazardous life forms in space?  These questions are not addressed by the script, but they are addressed by the crew of the Nostromo's patches, the back stories that were developed for them and the elaborate sets.  The perfect amount of back story was highlighted in the script, just enough to make the characters real and not just an infodump for the writer's vision of the future.  Little information is given that isn't necessary for the story to move forward.  [Believe me, I do know that there is an actual Alien Universe Timeline!]

Artistic license - Biology and Body Horror
I wasn't a good biology student.  I had to dissect a pig fetus brain to get extra credit enough to pass the class, but even I know that you don't just get some goo on your skin and undergo some huge metamorphosis unless the goo is from John Carpenter's "The Thing".  You might catch a disease from contact like that, but your genes are pretty safe, I'd bet.  I am rather ignorant, though so you can sell it to me with a great story, pseudoscience, atmosphere and all that.  Heavy on the pseudoscience and go lightly with the special effects especially if they have to be CGI.  Build it up with tension, big words, character development and such.  Many other ideas seem to stem from a more juvenile, gross-out kind of mentality, which is fine (I have a juvenile side), but it isn't horror; it's pointless, confusing, cheap, schlocky CGI effects at worst and simply pointless, confusing and (especially unintentionally) funny at best.  Either way it turns out, I don't have any desire to watch it a second time and it remains utterly forgettable, unlike Alien was for me.

I just browsed through so many horror movies on Netflix that involve "pretty" people and disease, zombies, being infected, things coming out of people's mouths, rotting flesh and black veins.  People criticize "Alien knockoffs", but there are not nearly many as there are zombie/apocalypse movies involving basically "cooties".  Most viruses just make you sick and maybe kill you.  Viruses don't transform you into something.  They are parasites that use your body to reproduce.  You may spread the virus before you start showing symptoms.  Disease may make someone go insane or act strangely, but the cause, be it a parasite, an infection of some kind, genetic defect, organ failure or whatever it isn't beneficial and it doesn't make you superhuman, able to run, jump or physically assault someone and eat their brains, they weaken and kill you.  I don't want or need to watch movies about people that are dying from a nasty disease unless there is a lot more to the characters.  Another thing about diseases is that they are usually rather slow about killing you.  Of course, not all diseases are slow acting, and some of them can kill you rather suddenly without much warning, but usually this is something like seizures, high fever, coma, heart attack, liver failure or something.  I am probably forgetting something, but I don't care enough to fully research this thought out.  It's just tired.  I am not writing this to criticize zombie films, just to encourage people to maybe try to do something different than: A mutated alien virus changes people into ravenous monochromatic CGI monsters that attack pretty people and give them gory head wounds or infect them with mouth rot, filmed with a shaky camera in poor lighting and the only way they can be killed is with a closeup of their head being shot, actually blown off, split or chopped off.

Another thing i'd like to add about body horror is obsessions with things going inside people's mouths or other orifices and breeding.  I get it, it is not a comfortable thought, but it has been done.  A lot.  Why keep on doing it?  It is just stealing from Alien or an Alien ripoff.  It isn't horror anymore.  It is just kind of gross, especially when it is shown with CGI proboscises squirting eggs into someone.  It's just basically alien porn.  If you must keep making this kind of movie, at least make it funny or something, don't take it seriously and don't expect it to be scary in the least.  It's just a little gross and that's all.  IMO.

The Thing
I didn't watch John Carpenter's "The Thing" until years after it was released on VHS.  I went to "Butch's" "Video Park" to rent This movie.  The scene with the dogs nearly traumatized me in a similar way that the Alien movie did and, although I wasn't exactly obsessed with the movie, it remains in my top 10 at least.  You all probably know that the effects were all practical; there wasn't any computer generated scenes and the biggest trick they pulled on us was some stop motion animation.  Like Tommy Boy, Zoolander, Ace Ventura, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Airplane, Naked Gun and many others, This movie goes from one of my favorite scenes to another.  I can't really pick.  You can pick up on the story of The Thing pretty quickly and arguably, the story is pretty scary: Some people in the arctic find something under the ice that wakes up and takes over people's bodies and absorbs them into it's own body and can mimic any life form it has absorbed.  What makes this story good is the way it is filmed, the awful looking transformations, the creepy mood, the paranoia, pacing, the music, the sound effects, all these play an important part in making the movie work.  If the transformation scenes had been computer generated, the movie would still be good, but personally I think the in camera effects, puppets and makeup are what make it better because their rubberiness, or "fakeness" has a sort of uncanny valley effect that clean "perfect" CGI can't really reproduce IMO.  This makes them look more freaky than if they were perfect computer models of the actor's heads.

Now in the below pictures, you can see a striking difference.  The top picture, from the prequel, is computer generated and the bottom picture is from the defibrillator scene in John Carpenter's The Thing.

The movement of the creatures is much creepier looking with good puppetry.  It just looks like a computer game monster with CGI.  Now, with the prequel, they got the sounds right, they are pretty scary, and the gaping mouth is nasty looking too, but it doesn't look nearly as repulsive as the original work.  The prequel made the creature more beefy, strong and clumsy, while the original made the creatures seem extremely hazardous, but feeble and almost insect like at times, especially with some of their sounds-definitely alien.  The transformation and/or absorbing scenes were also very bloody, drippy and gooey in the original, making them quite sickening.  There were green pustules bursting, pink and yellow dripping slime and other vomit inducing things that really made it horrific to look at.  Disgusting at the very least.  Now it is just a computer game monster.


*An Idea for Alien Movement
Japanese Butoh Dance -  Not sure if it has been looked at for a movie monster's movement style, but it should be if it hasn't.  Imagine a character in a movie becomes obsessed with a mysterious book and unwittingly (or not) summons a spawn from hell (or somewhere else) that comes out of their closet like the dancer in the below video: