That said, Giger didn’t much care for the final film, which he thought was much too similar to the Alien franchise, which boasts his most famous creature design, the xenomorph. For instance, there is the same punching tongue (Giger had wanted to incorporate barbed hooks for Sil), and Sil giving birth seems eerily akin to Alien‘s famous “chestburster” scene. Giger did manage to convince the director to have the team ultimately take out Sil with a fatal shot to the head, rather than with flame-throwers, which he felt was too derivative of Alien 3 and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Giger had a point: Species is not particularly ground-breaking or
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