It turns out that the already frightening Facehugger xenomorph from director Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic "Alien" was actually scaled back a bit from its original design by artist H.R.

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...