“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

The first Alienmovie was released in 1979 to massive approval from audiences. After its release, Alien would define a genre of horror-gore films involving extraterrestrials and spawn a franchise that ...