Before it had a name, the xenomorph of the Alien series had a nightmarish presence. Its gruesome and iconic life cycle, established 45 years ago in Ridley Scott’s Alien, is eternally disturbing. After erupting from a glistening yonic egg sac as a nymph with a scorpion-like tail, the creature attaches to the head of its victim. Then it impregnates the person, plunging a phallic organ down their throat through what appears to be its own mouth—a fiendish kiss. Next, it goes limp, drained by the act. Briefly. Soon after, it emerges engorged from the host’s chest, fatally barging through their ribs. From there, it grows in size, hunger, and menace, killing rapaciously until someone, usually a plucky woman, expels it into the vacuum of space.
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