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  • Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
  • In this video I explore the alternate, unfilmed fates of the Nostromo's navigator, Lambert, played by Veronica Cartwright.
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  • @emmental2020
    @emmental2020 3 місяці тому +213

    The legendary Veronica Cartwright. Undisputed winner of looking the most shit scared in cinematic history.

    • @peterestrada9420
      @peterestrada9420 3 місяці тому +10

      Well said, fine scholar😉🤙 An absolute “Cream of the Crop”, amongst such, Outstanding Performances. Everyone did a Spectacular Job, BUT☝️as you’ve already so rightly declared…., Wow, What a Performance 🎭 and No other has yet to even come Close. Just stunning🎭🙏

    • @BerryNiceToMeetYou
      @BerryNiceToMeetYou 3 місяці тому +8

      Shelley Duvall was brilliant in The Shining, especially when you consider what she went through during filming.

    • @astronautist4716
      @astronautist4716 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@BerryNiceToMeetYou yeah this was who I immediately thought of when they said 'undisputed'.
      Difference is probably that Duvall was by that point genuinely terrified & not even acting

    • @epicsseven7686
      @epicsseven7686 3 місяці тому +6

      "Invasion of The Body Snatchers." The ending scene with her terrified is epic. Every time that I go past city hall here in San Francisco. I think about that ending scene, because that's where it had taken place. R.I.Hollywood to Donald Sutherland. He'd passed away today. He's the guy pointing at her in that end scene.

    • @commandosolo1266
      @commandosolo1266 3 місяці тому +1

      Ironically, Ms. Cartwright had no patience for Lambert. She wanted Ripley's part. If you'd like to see her playing a strong woman, definitely look up Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

  • @frankdoubleday4984
    @frankdoubleday4984 3 місяці тому +109

    Ripley is who we wanted to be. Lambert is who we actually would be.

    • @livingcorpse5664
      @livingcorpse5664 3 місяці тому +12

      The more someone says they are Ripley, the more I'm convinced they turn into Lambert when the crap hits the fan.

    • @mytzlplk
      @mytzlplk 3 місяці тому +2

      Beat me to it!

    • @yodelusional
      @yodelusional 3 місяці тому +1

      Haha gigantic facts!!!😅😂😅

    • @Kolibri14427
      @Kolibri14427 3 місяці тому

      A lil hornet in my room is enough to turn me into lambert cant even imagine what a xenomorph would do 😂

    • @DavidCesarVera
      @DavidCesarVera 2 місяці тому +3

      I’d be Brett. Obliviously searching for Jones all alone in the dark, like a dumb@$$.

  • @roberthiltz2741
    @roberthiltz2741 3 місяці тому +152

    The audio of the Parker/Lambert scene is iconic and chilling. It never fails to give me goosebumps hearing her last gasps and screams while Ripley is trying to make her way back and help her crew…

    • @xenomorphlover
      @xenomorphlover 3 місяці тому +15

      Especially the last horrifying scream which indicates that it did something to her which ultimately killed her....and then Ripley finds her hanging on something 😳😱

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 3 місяці тому

      ​​​@@xenomorphlover I always (unfortunately) think the alien attempted a rape. The fact she's stripped naked, and there's (shudder) blood running down her legs, makes me think the Alien ripped her insides out......fucking horrible. Was the tail his penis? It looked incredibly serrated, gnarly, and the fact he put it between her (well...we fans know) legs, in a suggestive way......

    • @xenomorphlover
      @xenomorphlover 3 місяці тому +13

      @mistermatix8241 yes I also thought about it. It sounds horrifying and who knows what it did to its male victims. The Xenomorph in the first movie showed a lot of curiosity (similarly to the newborn in Resurrection) and we don't know if it had any sexual desires or just wanted to explore the human anatomy. I think these things however should remain a secret and up to the viewers imagination (that's also why I absolutely hate Prometheus and Covenant 😁😶)

    • @keepgoing7533
      @keepgoing7533 3 місяці тому +3

      ''Get outta the way, Lamber...!''
      It cuts early in the film, as u probably know.

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@xenomorphlover my comment was removed via yt censoring

  • @stheno3178
    @stheno3178 3 місяці тому +63

    I think the most credit should go to Veronica Cartwright. That was an unbelievably brilliant performance, very disturbing.

    • @mrowr4097
      @mrowr4097 3 місяці тому +5

      In retrospect her performance is one of my favourite parts of the film

    • @rojaws1183
      @rojaws1183 3 місяці тому +5

      One would like to think you would be as brave as Ripley or Dallas but it’s likely that you would panic like Brett or Lambert.

    • @fredloeper8579
      @fredloeper8579 3 місяці тому +1

      @@rojaws1183 yup!

  • @justinholtman
    @justinholtman 3 місяці тому +74

    Yt stop censoring my boy!!!

    • @DrFeelGoodHelpDesk
      @DrFeelGoodHelpDesk 3 місяці тому +13

      YT is on a censoring spree atm

    • @seanyd5698
      @seanyd5698 3 місяці тому +11

      They made an AI to do the censorship and just pressed go and left it 🤦‍♂️

  • @VikingTeddy
    @VikingTeddy 3 місяці тому +64

    "We hear Lanberts screams of fear, and of pain"
    I don't know about pain or fear, I heard something much more horrible.

    • @Ensign_Cthulhu
      @Ensign_Cthulhu 3 місяці тому +12

      I think most of us know this, but there's only so much he can say or hint at before YT demonetizes him for it.

    • @VikingTeddy
      @VikingTeddy 3 місяці тому

      @@Ensign_Cthulhu True. It's gotten really bad. It can sometimes be a bit distracting when a tuber has to talk in code.
      And don't get me started on comments. Roughly a third of comments that are longer than a few lines get removed due to s flagged word. I'd like to tell you more, but sometimes when I try, Poof!
      I wish they'd at least acknowledge it, but

    • @fredloeper8579
      @fredloeper8579 3 місяці тому +11

      With all due respect, the notion that Lambert was raped I've always found unbelievable. Two species just meeting. How is it supposed to know what goes where even if it has a 'what?' Of course it is a difficult idea to entertain anyway.

    • @VikingTeddy
      @VikingTeddy 3 місяці тому +18

      @@fredloeper8579 I was thinking more along the lines of the creature being curious, and stabbing/tearing Lambert repeatedly, wanting to see her insides oreseë. The sexual nature of the attack would be completely lost to it

    • @johnwclick
      @johnwclick 3 місяці тому

      Others refer to it as being "S.A.ed"; a frightening concept to be sure...

  • @georgehouliaras7239
    @georgehouliaras7239 3 місяці тому +36

    Imagine being the perfect lifeform and you go in for the kill and your victim dies from a heart attack of something before you even do anything.
    Big Chap was lucky that there was no hive yet because they would roast him to hell.

  • @stillhere9728
    @stillhere9728 3 місяці тому +36

    An alternative scenario could be that Lambert backs into the aforementioned locker and thereafter goes catatonic. Ripley searches her out but with the self destruct started she cannot get Lambert out and is forced to leave her behind. Lambert snaps out as the shuttle departs. All Ripley can do is listen to Lambert as she screams in panic over the coms before the ship blows up.

    • @justinklenk
      @justinklenk 3 місяці тому +8

      Oh that would be _good..._ 👍

    • @Shoutatclouds
      @Shoutatclouds 3 місяці тому +4

      Nice

    • @greyone40
      @greyone40 3 місяці тому +3

      If you aren't already writing stories, start now.

    • @Dead_Again1313
      @Dead_Again1313 3 місяці тому +2

      I dig it.

  • @Dummy666
    @Dummy666 3 місяці тому +19

    The Lambert's scream is so chilling that they are using it in the Alien teasers/trailers still today!

  • @toyboxgoblin
    @toyboxgoblin 3 місяці тому +26

    I like the flamethrower death kinda showing the alien having intelligence and using them as a shield. parker giving a vain attempt at sacrifice.

    • @paladin56
      @paladin56 Місяць тому

      Mmm. I don't know. For me the xenomorph acts on instinct. I think if it had that level of intelligence it would have evolved somewhat. It does, of course, have an incredible instinct for survival.

  • @sandpebbles
    @sandpebbles 3 місяці тому +22

    I saw Alien when it came out in 1979 in a theater. I was 13. No movie has scared and scarred me more. It left a mark on me but i love it. A paradigm shift in film and concept. I didn't sleep that night.

    • @commandosolo1266
      @commandosolo1266 3 місяці тому +3

      Same, but since I was such a Star Wars fan, my parents took me to celebrate my twelfth birthday. I had no idea what I was getting into.
      Ol' banana-head has turned up in my nightmares more times than I can count.

  • @norwegianblue2017
    @norwegianblue2017 3 місяці тому +19

    I like the idea a lot. I mean, if anything could scare you to death, it would be the Xenomorph getting ready to tear you apart. Being an incomprehensible alien life form makes it 100x scarier than facing a similar fate from a lion or bear. But I don't think the audience would buy it and find it anticlimactic. I think the way the theatrical release handled it was probably best. Your imagination is usually much scarier than seeing the violence, provided the scene is built up properly like it was.

    • @VikingTeddy
      @VikingTeddy 3 місяці тому +5

      Definitely. And Lamberts screams aren't the usual of fear or pain. It evokes something much worse.

  • @duncandonuts5268
    @duncandonuts5268 3 місяці тому +7

    difference between degusting your audience and scaring them. showing what happened to lambert wouldn't have really done much to scare us. im glad this movie doesn't show too much.

  • @commandosolo1266
    @commandosolo1266 3 місяці тому +23

    What always make me shudder about Lambert's demise is that she was wearing white trousers and boots, but when Ripley discovers her, she's barefoot and the trousers have vanished. Lambert's dangling just off the floor somehow, it appears her big toe is broken, and blood courses down her ankles in rivulets. The entire film merges sexual and violent imagery, culminating in this single shot implying Lambert was molested to death.

    • @cyrusq5999
      @cyrusq5999 3 місяці тому +3

      There's a deleted shot of the Alien, preparing to punch a hole in Lambert's face (within the 3hrs 2003 documentary); that's where I believe the blood is coming from: a hole in her forehead - just like Parker.
      I also believe her body's hanging from the same 'S'-shaped hook(s), used for hanging up the spare spacesuits seen in the room. Parker tried to stab the Alien with one, before it swatted him with its whip-like tail.

    • @flattmeister1704
      @flattmeister1704 3 місяці тому +9

      If you’ve played Aliens: Colonial Marines. In the multiplayer as the Xeno there’s a “Impale” finisher. The tails coils round behind the human enemies and goes in between the legs and out the mouth. It seems the devs took a creative license on what they thought happened to Lambert.

    • @WOLZI
      @WOLZI 3 місяці тому +1

      Maybe her body is still being HELD by the creature...?

    • @cyrusq5999
      @cyrusq5999 3 місяці тому +1

      @@WOLZI It left the room before Ripley arrived. She's hanging from the ceiling or, perhaps, half stuffed into an air shaft opening (that we can't see).

    • @commandosolo1266
      @commandosolo1266 3 місяці тому +1

      But where did Lambert's pants go...?

  • @Cyborg_Auto
    @Cyborg_Auto 3 місяці тому +16

    The actress that played lambert did an excellent job, she truly seems terrified in that scene. .

    • @fredloeper8579
      @fredloeper8579 3 місяці тому

      I think she was

    • @bri55118
      @bri55118 3 місяці тому

      You should check Veronica in the invasion of the body snachers 1979. She just as great there as in alien.

    • @fredloeper8579
      @fredloeper8579 3 місяці тому

      @@bri55118 I had seen her before as a child actress but just didn't know who she was. I sure noticed her in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." I kept saying 'who is that?' I guess we all found out.

  • @whatsthestory2612
    @whatsthestory2612 3 місяці тому +6

    I've always felt the tail has a secondary meaning. It is HR Giger's design. Maybe the tail is not a tail, or not just a tail.

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Місяць тому

      It’s not even subtext. Just look at H.R. Giger’s _Necronom IV_ painting that Dan O’Bannon chose to be his Alien and convinced Ridley Scott to join the project.

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 3 місяці тому +12

    An excellent scene, but to have a frightening-death for Lambert (or another character, even in one of the other films) would have been cool.

  • @callmeviper7723
    @callmeviper7723 Місяць тому +2

    Dying of raw fear and horror would have been the most disturbing. Pure Cosmic horror. The fear of the unknown, killing you.

  • @charlessaint7926
    @charlessaint7926 3 місяці тому +23

    I have a comic of the Alien script in its original form. It is much, much different than the film. Won't spoil it for others, but was well worth reading.

  • @henrikschmidt3964
    @henrikschmidt3964 3 місяці тому +4

    As a kid I was terrified of the Alien creatures. I had to sleep with the lights on for quite a while.
    I finally reasoned that IF a Xenomorph were to come for me, it would matter little whether I were awake or not.
    I'd be equally fucked ether way.

  • @Sebastianmaz615
    @Sebastianmaz615 3 місяці тому +6

    This is back when, in this scene with CGI not being a thing, there was literally a man in an alien suit moving ever so slowly to intensify the tension of what poor Lambert is about to endure. Plus the score was terrifying by itself, but when added to this part ... Holy Shite!
    Whereas with movies today where CGI is a thing, this entire scene would've been over in about 1.3 secs. The audio would've been loud, the scene would've been too dark and I would probably regret coming to the movies in the first place. 😀

    • @paladin56
      @paladin56 Місяць тому +1

      CGI is ruining movies in my opinion. Look at the two different Medusa scenes in Clash of the Titans and the remake. The Harryhausen stop motion scene is pure art and creepy as he'll. The CGI remake scene is a long, drawn out, loud and tiresome chase sequence.

    • @Sebastianmaz615
      @Sebastianmaz615 Місяць тому

      @@paladin56 Agree, that was/is another good example.

  • @cairnex4473
    @cairnex4473 3 місяці тому +7

    Poor old Parker had a shit day at the office...

  • @ShiftyMoses
    @ShiftyMoses 3 місяці тому +5

    i think a character could silently hide in a locker, then get so scared they start having a heart attack, that causes them to start screaming in pain, alerting the xeno and ending up in the death of character, theres some sort of poetic irony here i think, nothing to fear but fear

  • @Demigod_3scrub
    @Demigod_3scrub 3 місяці тому +6

    In a word " r**e.. It's damn near the message throughout the entire film and the word " Birth"..

  • @Optio-the11thblackhorseman
    @Optio-the11thblackhorseman 3 місяці тому +7

    Her audible death still haunts me to this day.

  • @micahrutland9021
    @micahrutland9021 3 місяці тому +21

    I've been watching vids about the first Alien film all night, then out of nowhere, alien theory posts this treat of a vid.

  • @greyone40
    @greyone40 3 місяці тому +5

    I think the way it ended up in the film is best. Just enough happens on camera, and just enough happens off camera.
    The weird shot of the alien on all fours moving toward Lambert feet first would have been silly looking. Moving like that doesn't suggest a fearsome predator at all.
    The alien squeezing out the small hole in Resurrection was silly looking too. Unfortunate that they used it.

    • @NotMorganFreeman.
      @NotMorganFreeman. 3 місяці тому +1

      The newborn getting sucked out of that tiny hole was fitting for the silliness of the rest of the film. Like a newborn chestburster punching through a chest and two layers of skull, or General Perez's plucking a piece of his brain out and looking at it, or his ape like hairy arms, or 2 aliens talking back and forth forming a plan to escape the observation pods, or the newborn actually saying mama, etc, etc

  • @frank3508
    @frank3508 20 днів тому +2

    By far the most disturbing and unsettling theory I've ever heard regarding Lambert's death and the horror of what she actually went through is related to her character being transgender, which is canon. The xenomorph aproached her very slowly, sizing her up with what could pass for morbid curiosity, because it was trying to process the contradiction it sensed between her outward appearance and its instinctive pheromonal understanding of what it was encountering. So to resolve this contadiction it performed an instant evisceration, dissection, and "autopsy" on her while she was still alive and fully, horrifyingly aware of exactly what it was doing to her as she was so gruesomely brutalized in her last moments.

    • @frank3508
      @frank3508 9 днів тому

      @Adam-e2w6k Well if you reread my first line l made it clear it's not my own theory I'm positing, but rather one l read about some time ago. I still find it intriguing.

  • @WhiteMousse1980
    @WhiteMousse1980 3 місяці тому +35

    I love how he gestures with his hands almost like he wants to dance with her. "COME TO ME DARLING"

    • @MDX484
      @MDX484 3 місяці тому +7

      Sometimes I love to think that maybe, just maybe, Kane had some interest in Lambert and that could be reflexed somehow in the Alien behaviour. As Ash said "Kane's son". But then i come back to my senses and acknowledge that this theory sounds pretty crazy .

    • @milovarquiel
      @milovarquiel 3 місяці тому +3

      @@MDX484 That's a well know theory and a lot of people had thought the same.

    • @yetanotherreviewchannel
      @yetanotherreviewchannel 3 місяці тому +1

      @@MDX484 interesting and kinda unsettling, perfect for the alien

    • @Nicholas_Chen_
      @Nicholas_Chen_ 3 місяці тому +1

      Yeah he kinda does... He enjoyed the dance. I don't think the feeling was mutual.

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 3 місяці тому +4

      That weird walk, with the slow moving arms, almost like a slow moving steam train.......creepy yet mesmerising. Bolaji trained with dancers and mime artists to create a movement dialogue, evidently he was a prize student as his performance as the Alien is EXCEPTIONAL. He really conveys a weird grace, an elegance yet a lethality. Bolaji, wherever you are in the afterlife 👏👏👏👏👏 you are remembered fondly by us fans

  • @MDX484
    @MDX484 3 місяці тому +6

    Star Beast was a freak base for Alien. Broussard died when the creature hatches from him, but his corpse got stuck in the blister of the observatory and was tapping in the whole time, Faust got crushed by the airlock door , Melkonis got decapitated, Hunter got torched and eaten by the Alien and Standard got cocooned. The original plan for shuttle was to lock the alien in there and make it blow with remote explosives.
    And just love how they Lambert death like they show in the movie ( or not shown better said) .

  • @BabarizamDK
    @BabarizamDK 2 місяці тому +1

    So both of my fav youtube channels "Alien Theory" and "Star Wars Theory" are from Canada. Deadpool is not the only good thing came out from Great Canada 😍

  • @jeremybr2020
    @jeremybr2020 2 місяці тому +1

    You don't just hear Lambert scream when she's killed. You failed to mention what may be even a scarier sound. Right after you hear Lambert give several terrifying screams you hear what sounds like something breathing quickly, or like small quick grunts. This is followed by Lambert's final horrifying scream. Those sounds is what leads to the rumors that Lambert met her end in a far worse fate than we could imagine, as it kind of appears that Lambert was penetrated.....down there.....by the aliens tail. The way the tail comes in down below really slowly lends possible truth to that thought. So essentially, Lambert was........penetrated to death. This idea is not exactly out of left field. The whole scary part about the xenomorphs and the face huggers, is how they invade us in such a personal way. Latching to our faces, forcing the embryos down our throats. Using our bodies to grow then birthing threw our chest. The original design by HR Giger, was all about mixing the biomechanical with invasive sexual undertones.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 3 місяці тому +1

    I 'liked' what we got. We just don't know exactly what happened, so we fill it in ourselves. Yes, the whole getting sucked out of a tiny hole is stupid, but so much of that film was stupid.

  • @SerpentNight
    @SerpentNight 3 місяці тому +3

    The earliest version of a person dying of fright in film might be in "The Monster That Challenged the World", circa 1957. The title creature is kind of xenomorph like in some respects.

  • @p.j.c.2.0
    @p.j.c.2.0 3 місяці тому +1

    I think Alien Isolation should be made into a Live Action Movie .

  • @Channel88266
    @Channel88266 2 місяці тому +1

    Original Scripts:
    Dallas: That was Brett...It ate Lambert.
    That is some scary shit & it is just one creature.

  • @ottooctavius9552
    @ottooctavius9552 3 місяці тому +1

    Why aren’t you covering the current alien comic run by Marvel?

  • @kylemcw8301
    @kylemcw8301 3 місяці тому +1

    What I’ve always wanted to know is, when the Xeno’s tail goes between her legs (before her death) she is clothed.
    ..Yet when the death reveal is shown when Ripley is in the doorway, you see her bare feet and legs, whilst dangling lifeless.
    …just what the F*** did that Xeno do to her, before killing her!? 🫢🤢

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 3 місяці тому +2

    i remember in Oz there was a scene where a dude was a snitch and the dude he snitched on pulled a knife on him, and he started to panic.... but then one of the dudes who forced him to snitch shows up and he starts to calm down, until that guy also pulls a knife and says he is there to kill him. while the two would-be murderers argue about who gets to kill him, the guy has a heart attack and the two say their goodbyes and depart. 😉

  • @rabidhammer31
    @rabidhammer31 3 місяці тому +1

    Scared to death, it could totally work, look at the Ring, I know their is more supernatural involved there but
    take that concept that someone was running and hiding and waiting and BAM, a lot like Dallas's death too,
    the final look of terror can be cut away from and lets the say the crew is looking for this person,
    there is a good jump scare there of them finding the body all hunched and contorted and with a gruesome look of shock,
    that always strikes a nerve

  • @SenneSoli
    @SenneSoli 3 місяці тому +2

    excellent video. For me this remains one of the most scary scenes, thanks for Cartwright her acting, the background music, the vague unexplained things...somebody suggested (and I think it was this channel) that the naked legs could be the result of them trying out a version of this scene in which the Alien tries to pull Lambert up a vent, but maybe Parker tries to prevent it and pulls at her legs...that is stuck in my head now....guess we'll never know

  • @annemcspadden4569
    @annemcspadden4569 3 місяці тому +1

    The most likely response to fear is the freezing which we see with Lambert. Then dissociation which is very real but less common. Death by fright why not shock is very real and deadly.

  • @fredleggett923
    @fredleggett923 3 місяці тому +27

    There is definitely footage locked-away in a Fox nee Disney vault that has never been seen, nor posted to UA-cam. We know that the chestburster scene was hellciously more bloody based on various takes available on here, so God only knows what else was shot that we haven't seen.

    • @keepgoing7533
      @keepgoing7533 3 місяці тому

      Dis-knee?

    • @cyrusq5999
      @cyrusq5999 3 місяці тому +1

      I'd like to see the alternate takes for the insert shots (filmed at Bray Studios) of Parker's brains being smashed in by the Alien's 'tongue'. The first ALIEN MAKERS documentary interviewed someone who was there during the filming, and revealed that a much more gruesome take existed, that was: "too good to be used" in the film (too graphic).
      I doubt DISNEY has the balls to release such amazing footage. Would love to see it for the 50th anniversary though.

    • @fredleggett923
      @fredleggett923 3 місяці тому +2

      @@cyrusq5999 I also remember that from the Alien Makers docu. Supposedly, the 3+ hour cut screened for Fox execs was an absolute bloodbath that might've gotten it an X rating (though that could've been exaggerated since X was generally reserved for "adult" fare).
      I'd love to see it all, even in just rough form. Gore back then was so much more visceral than it is today.

    • @cyrusq5999
      @cyrusq5999 3 місяці тому

      @@fredleggett923 Sadly, I suspect what was graphic back then, would be tame by today's standards. I'd still like to see the 'complete' version with EVERYTHING back in. There's still quite a few deleted scenes of interest that I'd like to see released:
      The original hypersleep awakening sequence (minus the surgical tape for the two ladies).
      Parker & Brett's first scene, down in Engineering (Ripley calls them both to get to the mess for an important crew meeting).
      The rest of the Chestburster rushes (I believe Ron Cobb said there was about 40 mins worth filmed?)
      The deleted scene where Dallas accuses Ash of protecting the Alien - if it was filmed. In the Terry Rawlings ALIEN script, this deleted scene has a pen line drawn through it. Perhaps cut from the script and never filmed?
      Brett's death, as originally filmed. Same with Parker & Lambert.
      Ash's interrogation - as originally filmed - with much more dialogue than what ended up in the final revised version.
      The 'Box Alien' - if it was ever filmed?

    • @fredleggett923
      @fredleggett923 3 місяці тому +2

      @@cyrusq5999 There's also the (in)famous storyboarded scene of Kane's sarcophagus somehow getting tangled in the Nostromo near a window and scaring the hell outta the crew. I seriously doubt it was filmed, though, since Kane's body is shown speeding and tumbling away from the ship.
      There is a channel I ran across recently which posted takes of the chestburster scene that I had never seen, and I've eyeballed a LOT of stuff not included in the theatrical. Footage keeps getting trickled-out from the most unlikely of sources year after year. There were only a few minutes worth, but SO interesting. I'll have to track down the channel.
      It's interesting that Dallas had serious suspicions about Ash. I'd give it 50/50 on whether or not it was filmed.
      I think the "box" alien would've been damn-near impossible to pull off in 1979 without looking cheesy or weird. I know it was in the graphic novel, though, so...maybe?
      And the other scenes you mentioned are definitely in a Disney vault somewhere. Knowing Disney, though, plebs like us will never see them unless they're smuggled out.

  • @darrancoyle8394
    @darrancoyle8394 3 місяці тому +2

    Quality vid, A.T. Can't wait to hear your take on Romulus, come August.

  • @fredloeper8579
    @fredloeper8579 3 місяці тому +1

    How's this. Lambert is scared to death and remains standing. The xenomorph leaves. Ripley arrives seeing Lambert standing there. Ambient light shines in her eyes. Ripley then realizes Lambert is dead and leaves. Almost immediately, off camera, we hear Lambert's body slump to the floor. That would work.

  • @frankdoubleday4984
    @frankdoubleday4984 3 місяці тому +1

    The concept of being scared to death is not new. If you look at the 1955 film Les Diaboliques it is actually the main intention for one of the women to literally 'die of fright'. Therefore letting the villains plans be fulfilled.

  • @Sintaxx
    @Sintaxx 3 місяці тому +1

    I might be almost as much of an ALIEN franchise nerd as you, but your level of lore knowledge is far superior to mine. Needless to say, I loved this video!
    I pray this new film will be the ALIEN film I've been waiting for. I've been burned so many times, though there are many elements of all the films that I appreciate. But there just wasn't anything close to seeing ALIENS in the theater for the first time ever repeated again throughout the decades. That film was an experience that was once-in-a-lifetime. I think I have been pining for a duplication of that I don't think will ever happen again.
    A lot of people didn't care for Resurrection but it is actually my 3rd favorite in the franchise for it's sheer fun and action factors.
    If Fede has recreated some of the suspense from the first film, the chaotic action of the the second, and enough surprises and horrible deaths with his new film, I am all-in!

  • @arcaneminded
    @arcaneminded 3 місяці тому +3

    8:23 mmmm may want to look up the Byford Dolphin accident.

    • @kutter_ttl6786
      @kutter_ttl6786 3 місяці тому

      In his defence, the accident happened 4 years after the movie came out, and the size and shape of the holes are very different. Byford Dolphin accident hole was a 60cm crescent shaped gap while the director wanted a 1/16in (1.6mm) hole, quite significant differences.

  • @jorgealessandro8015
    @jorgealessandro8015 2 місяці тому +1

    Very good 😁🚀🚀

  • @windsonma8209
    @windsonma8209 3 місяці тому

    Now I may Not Be An Medical Expert Or Anything Like that but Personally Yes as From what I Understand it The Human Heart is Just Another Muscle and Just Like with Any Human Muscle If Over Used Such as in The Case of the Human Heart if You Over Exert Yourself or Rather if Your Heart is Forced to Pick Up Speed For whatever the Reason, Such as if You Run Too Fast or if you Try To Lift Something that is Al Lost Heavey than what You're Physically Capable of well your Heart Gives Out. Of Course it's the Very Same Concept of a Heart Attack. Quit Frankly In One Hand I'm Sort Of Surprised Not A Lot of Slasher Flicks or even Phycological Horror Flicks have Characters Die In This Manner, But on the Other Hand I Understand Why they Don't as it's Not As Themeatc as Haveing the Supernatural Killer of the Franchise Going After The Characters And Taking Care of them in the Usual Way. I Guess in a way The Closes that we have of having Characters Die of a Heart Attack or Being Scared to Death is the 'Nightmare On Elms Street' Films And as for the Psychological Horrors Technically and Logically that should Happen but Again if it did just like with Slasher Flicks What Fun Would that Be? And Besides we wouldn't Have Much of a Movie If we Have Characters even in Psychological Horror where we have the Main Character Dyeing Of Heart Attacks. Especially if it's In The Middle of the Fiulm.

  • @maxfieldstanton5005
    @maxfieldstanton5005 Місяць тому

    Sure it could. I’m thinking of the trope of a survivor hiding in a locker and the killer unexpectedly appears and acknowledges they know the survivor is in their (“Peekaboo!”).
    For the alien the terror would be the head just popping into view unexpectedly beside the locker, unmoving and in profile. Were it any other killer with eyes, the eye turning to face the viewer would probably be the big scare. But for a thing without eyes like the Xenomorph the fear would be that it somehow could be looking sideways at you and you’d never know, safe for the fact that it’s stuck to that spot in front of your hiding place, as though waiting for you.

  • @jneilson7568
    @jneilson7568 Місяць тому

    The sound looping in her last moments bugs me a little. It's still an excellent series of shrieks, screams and who-knows-what. Just that "uuurgh, eyaya, brrrr" sound comes round twice and feels jarring.

  • @mytzlplk
    @mytzlplk 3 місяці тому

    I've never been one to scare easily. Yet, for the last 10 months, I've been working up the courage to continue 'Alien: Isolation' ! 😱 Yikes, did they get that game right. At least so far. I've played a whole 5% of it, maybe. 😆 My phone rang once and jumped out of my chair. And YES, I think a person could be frightened to death by The Alien. Especially if one is living the life of a sheltered, isolated deep space traveler with a limited crew for company. The Alien is at the opposite end of the spectrum from 'calm'.

  • @lukas_jay243
    @lukas_jay243 3 місяці тому

    Swiss speak German in some quarters? Giger spoke German? Is it true that the word Schwanz means both tail AND penis? This brings a whole new context to the Aliens 'tail' for me, and what may have happened here 😮

  • @TheCorpsehatch
    @TheCorpsehatch 3 місяці тому +1

    Veronica Cartwright did a damn good job in the roll of Lambert. Fantastic acting from her.

  • @louismendoza-y9l
    @louismendoza-y9l 3 місяці тому

    Lamberts off screen death was chilling, and best not seen. Probably Ridley Scott was pulling from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre less is more, not every gory detail needs to be shown. Or they ran out of time and money.

  • @WebShaman01
    @WebShaman01 Місяць тому

    ...scared to death in a locker. You are out of your mind. Seriously. I hope they never let you ever, EVER direct anything Alien.

  • @yodelusional
    @yodelusional 3 місяці тому +1

    @Alien Theory I just began watching the digital edition of Aliens Expanded and jus wanted to say you are heavily featured (I'm sure you're aware) which is awesome! Been watching for years and love to see you get your recognition!

  • @s.plissken_91
    @s.plissken_91 Місяць тому

    You hear her choke on the tail. It goes all the way up her legs and through her mouth. Like the finisihing kill in the AVP game, explaing why said kill was added for the xenomorph.

  • @georgeharris9873
    @georgeharris9873 2 місяці тому

    Veronica was ripped off by not getting an Academy Award. Her performance was brilliant.

  • @WOLZI
    @WOLZI 3 місяці тому

    Why the naked feet, when Ripley finds Lambert? I can't seem to find a satisfying explanation for this!?

  • @dragdragon23
    @dragdragon23 Місяць тому

    with the now nude leg with streams of blood on it, tells of the gruesome death of Lambert. I say her death was from H R Giger's sexual death art and with the short time in the movie, I say the Alien wanted a quickie.

  • @randallcollins870
    @randallcollins870 Місяць тому

    I wish lambert had of been the survivor, i like the character much more than Ripley. She was more attractive as well. One of my first crushes.

  • @leex187
    @leex187 3 місяці тому +1

    I always like your descriptive commentaries on the Alien franchise are you looking forward to the new one I am very excited

  • @Evolutionsquarefan
    @Evolutionsquarefan 3 місяці тому

    You should make a theory on if Burke was lying about Amanda Ripley's death

  • @paladin56
    @paladin56 Місяць тому

    I think it is a realistic demise for Lambert. She was a very highly strung character who was dealing with the situation worse than any of the other characters. I think the scene where she slaps Ripley shows she was a highly emotional individual so it's not too much of a stretch for her to have died of fright. As you say, we are somewhat desensitised to the xenomorph now but try to imagine being confronted by that thing in real life for the first time. I much prefer that scenario to the idea that the alien r***d her, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

  • @wartooth88
    @wartooth88 3 місяці тому +5

    Being sucked into a tiny hole is completely possible in happening. Underwater divers can have it happen when cutting into a negative pressure space and getring sucked in. There is a video on youtube here showing it happening to a crab.

    • @vinnycrever4863
      @vinnycrever4863 3 місяці тому +1

      There's no such a pressure difference between inside and outside the spaceship.

    • @wartooth88
      @wartooth88 3 місяці тому +1

      @@vinnycrever4863 its a vacuum in outer space. Not in the ship. Which is pressurized.

    • @wartooth88
      @wartooth88 3 місяці тому

      @@vinnycrever4863 very wrong vinny

    • @vinnycrever4863
      @vinnycrever4863 3 місяці тому

      @@wartooth88 Which gives you just 1 atm pressure difference instead of 12 atm difference between an average ocean shelf bottom and a deep vacuum.

    • @wartooth88
      @wartooth88 3 місяці тому

      @@vinnycrever4863 fraid not. insides of ships going into space are pressurized just like planes.

  • @tylerzidron1367
    @tylerzidron1367 Місяць тому

    Byford dolphin for someone getting pulled through too small of a hole, because of pressure differential they were reduced to chunks of flesh

  • @jb7483
    @jb7483 3 місяці тому

    Sorry, i know its fake. However if i was Parker she and the Xenomorph would have been crispy if she was that stupid to not move.

  • @Adarkane325xi
    @Adarkane325xi 3 місяці тому

    I’ve never told anyone this, but occasionally i’ll have a nightmare about being chased by a Xenomorph. In my dream, it ain’t a guy in a rubber suit, either. I guess the Alien is hardwired into me at this point.

  • @ajw9533
    @ajw9533 Місяць тому

    There was an accident at a decompression chamber when a deep sea diver suffered exactly what Scott proposed for Lambert.

  • @professorplunge7705
    @professorplunge7705 3 місяці тому

    will watch the rest of this vid after i've seen Romulus. not having it spoiled for me by accidentally seeing half the film in a trailer in a non-related vid :p most legitimate kind regards from a disheartened 30-odd year old who's had enough of this generations idea of a movie trailer. they dont make em like they used to :(

  • @TOGO4545
    @TOGO4545 3 місяці тому

    If a person is running and hiding from that alien by the time it finds them their hair will be white frozen stiff😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 no cap

  • @vinnycrever4863
    @vinnycrever4863 3 місяці тому

    What about the tail-rape theory? It's also being linked to the Cartwrite's interview.

  • @SnotTheGoblin
    @SnotTheGoblin 3 місяці тому +2

    Man i love you alien theory❤

  • @jamesrad6317
    @jamesrad6317 3 місяці тому

    Is it just me or in the production shot of the Alien dangling from above next to the chains, is his tail on the front???
    Does the big chap in fact have a "front butt"???

  • @tasha7726
    @tasha7726 3 місяці тому

    If a Xenomorph came through my bedroom door one morning I'd probably drop dead on the spot. So yes, I believe someone could die of fright from the sight of that thing alone.

  • @lamontj.1099
    @lamontj.1099 3 місяці тому +1

    She was terrified stiff in that moment. She got herself AND Parker killed. His death was for nothing because in that moment, she could've bolted. Instead, after his death she was still there in the same spot.

  • @Boyer316
    @Boyer316 3 місяці тому

    In that final still from Romulus the alien's head looks different, in the still immediately before that one it looks like Venom.

  • @bri55118
    @bri55118 3 місяці тому

    Lambert and nauls from the thing are some of the best deaths on film. Not knowing how they were killed just adds to the horror.

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark 3 місяці тому

    UA-cam took the video down, WTF, seriously.

  • @AlienSquidMonster
    @AlienSquidMonster 3 місяці тому

    getting scared to death would be so superlame, what are you talking about? What a cop out way to go in a horror movie. Worse than a cut away

  • @skylx0812
    @skylx0812 3 місяці тому +7

    As Ripley is running down the corridor you can hear Lambert on the speakers huffing and puffing like a woman does when she's using the shallow breathed breathing technique during labor.
    Then she coyly says "...you GOT it." then there's her single echoing horrific shriek. It seems to be implied that her mind completely snaps and she's actually taking intense pleasure from her final moment of death as if its a great release. Or perhaps something more horrific is being done to her.
    All we see of her is her bloodied bare leg and foot with a broken big toe. I think the intent was to overwhelm the viewer with an intense cacophony of terror inducing sights and sounds and let their panicked in the moment brains string together an idea, any idea wether it made sense or not.

  • @mishanuketheus2570
    @mishanuketheus2570 3 місяці тому

    You can be sucked up through tiny hole look up Dolphin oil rig incident.

  • @montewright111
    @montewright111 3 місяці тому

    I find it disturbing that after Lambert is killed her pants and shoes are now missing.

  • @steelcurtain187
    @steelcurtain187 3 місяці тому

    I love the idea of this. If anything could cause it, it would be the xeno 👽

  • @SpaceLord2025
    @SpaceLord2025 3 місяці тому

    that scene where it comes down from out of those chains. the theater i was in almost half of it jumped up and ran out of the theater as fast as they could!!!!

  • @SoggyDonuts79
    @SoggyDonuts79 3 місяці тому

    Why does it look like in several behind the scenes images that the alien’s tail is is in the front like a male appendage and not a tail on the back??

  • @shadowpapito
    @shadowpapito 3 місяці тому

    Thank you, I did not know about the book. I went and got it and really enjoyed it!

  • @aaronmiller8503
    @aaronmiller8503 3 місяці тому

    When it comes to the aliens movies I mostly watch this channel…… mostly

  • @backwash69777
    @backwash69777 3 місяці тому

    Wasnt the scene of the tail going up the leg a part of brets desth scene?

  • @Azuwat
    @Azuwat 3 місяці тому +2

    When i was kid, i dont understand why Lambert never ran away or do anything. I was so frustrated. Im 51 now and i see the genious of Ridley Scott

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 3 місяці тому

      In true terror, like this, you'd freeze on the spot in shock. She just watched Parker being killed. Her face says all you need to know, she was so terrified. I often wonder "do actors have nightmares after filming scenes in horror/sci fi films?" There must be an element of it. Did Linda Hamilton have nightmares after filming The Terminator? did Veronica have nightmares after filming this scene, or was she just like "that Bolaji, he's such a kidder"

    • @Azuwat
      @Azuwat 3 місяці тому

      @mistermatix8241 i made a short horror film. No my crew dont feel scared becuz we are shooting with puppets and editing later we darken the ambiance and put scary music. During acting is just ask actor to make scared face or horror look. Actual set just a simple room

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 3 місяці тому

      @@Azuwat I was thinking about the actual imagery being created, if I was in a room with an actor dressed as something as disturbing as the alien, that it might get to you a little.

    • @Azuwat
      @Azuwat 3 місяці тому

      @@mistermatix8241 i understand but im talking about reality. Its not scary becuz its just a rubber suit and the camera man and crew is right next to u. The actors just act. But theres 10 people on set at one time, camera man, lighting, ADs, director. Not scary

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 3 місяці тому

      That's true

  • @seanwhitehall4652
    @seanwhitehall4652 3 місяці тому

    They can certainly frighten you to suicide

  • @nicholasfluty3513
    @nicholasfluty3513 3 місяці тому

    Speaking of being scared to death, perhaps a video of the lasting psychological impact and damage of watching the Alien movies as a younger child. I still have nightmares about Aliens, and that was 38 years ago.

  • @fatbobchronicles6125
    @fatbobchronicles6125 Місяць тому

    Def sexual intent from xenomorph

  • @nevermindmyname9153
    @nevermindmyname9153 3 місяці тому +1

    I'm sure you've said this Before

  • @crypticcelt3618
    @crypticcelt3618 3 місяці тому

    That's not his tail. That's his big chap

  • @ilovemusicsomuch
    @ilovemusicsomuch 3 місяці тому

    Your channel is AWESOME and I enjoy your videos SO MUCH!! Thank you for bringing all this Alien wonderfulness to us!

  • @pavelbelov9957
    @pavelbelov9957 3 місяці тому +1

    I love your videous!! You are my favorite!!!

  • @ANNIHILVS
    @ANNIHILVS 3 місяці тому

    That alien in Romulus looks like the stupid rubber monster from FORBIDDEN WORLD