 Source: USA Today. BERLIN (AP) — Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall.
Giger's works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for "biomechanical" tattoos. Born Hans Ruedi Giger on Feb. 5, 1940, in the southeastern Swiss town of Chur, he trained as an industrial designer because his father insisted that he learn a proper trade. Giger's vision of a human skull encased in a machine appeared on the cover of "Brain Salad Surgery," a 1973 album by the rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Along with his design for Debbie Harry's solo album, "Koo Koo" (1981), it featured in a 1991 Rolling Stone magazine list of the top 100 album covers of all time. Giger went on to work as a set designer for Hollywood, contributing to "Species," ''Poltergeist II," ''Dune," and most famously "Alien," for which he received a 1979 Academy Award for special effects.  Advance tickets are on sale for the 7pm and 9pm screening of the world premiere of our newest film FUTURE JUSTICE on May 18th at the CinemaWorld theater in Lincoln, Rhode Island!
See Heroic Heroes! Villainous Villains! Monstrous Monsters! If you see just one film this Spring .... you might want to consider getting a second job.... but in any case, don't miss Nat Sylva, Aaron Andrade, Steven Ó Broin, Elyssa Baldassarri, Michael Thurber, Dan Mauro, Tiffany Lee Ferris, Ronnie Suraci, Rich Tretheway, Monica Saviolakis, Anna Rizzo, Casey SockMonkey Wright, Jamie Lyn Bagley, Sean Carufel, Sean Leser, Kevin Killavey, Tobias Wilson, Christian Masters, Patricia Hawkridge, Alan Hawkridge, Jose Gonsalves, Patrick Keeffe and so many more in FUTURE JUSTICE! And if you cannot attend due to a sudden case of leprosy, please share the link! We want this to be a night of high-powered action and suspense to remember! Thank you! http://www.scorpiofilmreleasing.squarespace.com/events/  IDW and Microsoft's XBox Entertainment studio have teamed up to present a limited, live-action series based on the comic series Winterworld.
Created by writer Chuck Dixon and illustrator Jorge Zaffino, Winterworld takes place in an apocalyptic future where our world has been encased in ice from pole-to-pole. The surviving humans have formed tribes that war, enslave and trade with one another in an effort to survive the infinite winter. Dixon is teaming with Butch Guice for new Winterworld tales from IDW Publishing in June 2014. |
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