Original 'Alien' Test Footage Far More Disturbing Than It Should Be
Horse: not that scary. Mostly-naked man in a rubber horse mask, moving around like a maniac while video game music plays? Confirmed to be super fucking terrifying. Alien from the original Alien: already pretty scary. Mostly-naked man in a rubber alien mask, moving around like a maniac while video game music plays? You can probably guess.
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That nightmare was a movement test from Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi classic, and in the mask was 6'10" Bolaji Badejo, who played the alien xenomorph in all scenes that required the creature to move around like only a ridiculously tall, lithe guy can. For reference, here's the opposite of the above video:
Not really so creepy.
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