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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Just think about that scene where the black dude and the whiny bitch get killed and the alien kills the chick by impaling her with its tail basically through the crotch, after which we are treated to an extended audio of her screaming in a way that could perhaps be likened to "rape sounds"... I guess. There was a lot of rape subtext to the xenomorphs.
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And perhaps also general anxieties about the whole reproductive cycle. Pregnancy in particular. Giger's art is full of weird sexual fears and I think that it has rubbed off pretty heavily on all of the Alien movies.
In that sense, the Alien movies almost feel a bit "Cronenbergian". If only Cronenberg would direct an Alien movie...