Alien: Kane (John Hurt)

Comments for death : Alien: Kane (John Hurt).

Surely this will jump to no. 1 soon enough. The best movie death of all time!

not the most honest rendition of the alien bursting out of kanes chest. I have been watching this movie for like the last two weeks over and over again on skybroadband - there are no bumps in his chest during the breakout, just he is writhing around a bit and then theres this nice splash of blood on his shirt then a little more writhing around until the breakthough where a whole bunch of blood spills all over the place. Hmmm, a bit anal I know, but get it right kids.

The cool part about this scene is that the other actors were unaware of exactly how is was oing to be played out. So the reactions are real, this was planned by the director.

How about sex? not SEX sex, but the face-hugger did get Kane pregnant after all.

I actually wrote a paper about this at college. Maybe I still have it...

feel free to post it if you fancy Dr Death, we are always interested in peoples take on death scenes.

This death was so bad ass that it was duplicated, almost completely, in Spaceballs. They even got John Hurt to play Kane again. Best death in a horror/drama AND a comedy.

So it's NOT unique.

Well, does direct parody count to cancel out unique?

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Not to mention it's a fairly common death to have things pop out of you in the Alien series. (in the 4th one, they tried a little variation by having a headbuster go through into the head of a second poor sap and out the other end).