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When Alien was released here in 1979 it was given an “X” rating under the old cinema classification system, but not because of its chest-bursting horror. It was due to censors thinking the alien eggs would be a bit too weird and sexy for the innocent kids of the day.
The censor notes pulled out of the BBFC’s archives reveal concerns over the “dark undercurrent” running through the film, with the eggs and weird alien reproduction scenes described as being potentially “disturbing in a non-specific way” to teenage audience.
The censor added: “Occasionally the image is explicit as when the leathery egg opens up to reveal a glistening pulsating membrane which erupts into a squid-like creature,” although it doesn’t sound particularly sexy when described like that. [io9]
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Riiiight. How things have changed.
I’m sorry, what? Sexy pulsating eggs?
Of course it doesn’t sound sexy like that and it wasn’t sexy anyway, as far as I remember.
” “Occasionally the image is explicit as when the leathery egg opens up to reveal a glistening pulsating membrane which erupts into a squid-like creature,””
Are they trying to relate the mechanism to something along the lines of ejaculation?
Yeah I don’t remember being turned on or thinking it related to that. ^^
Me neither. Repulsed perhaps; turned on, errr, no.
Pulsating vagina? Penis penetration? Could relate to anything.
I get the impression that the people doing the censoring had a very unusual sexual experience once and have remained confused ever since.
If I’d been attacked by a squid halfway though sex I’d probably find it disturbing too.
Would you have been less alarmed if it had bought you dinner first?
Much less, although I’d probably have to forgo my usual order of seafood.
Wow, talk about seeing what you want to see…. hate to sit into those guys taking a Rorschach test
I don’t get it – are people only just realising that H. R. Giger’s production design on Alien was all about subverting sexual imagery to create horror?
Have you seen what the underside of a facehugger looks like?
Yeah the giant facehugger/squid in PROMETHEUS seemed to resemble a penis-like object when it forced itself into the mouth of the Engineer. The orifice that it came out of with teeth – resembled a vagina (without teeth of course).