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Ridley Scott shares the horror movie that inspired him to make ‘Alien’ Movies
While ‘Alien’ is a legend of the horror genre, its director had some heavy influences from another classic movie.
Ridley Scott is one of the most important directors in the history of cinema, a filmmaker capable of creating a multitude of masterpieces and who today continues to surprise us with new releases on a regular basis. ‘Alien’ could be the British director’s most iconic creation, and the film that inspired him to create the most famous space horror of all is another legend of horror cinema that continues to cause chills 50 years after its release.
It was ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, released in 1974, and a true myth of horror cinema that continues to generate nightmares and remains a reference half a century later. Ridley Scott spoke with The Hollywood Reporter in 2019, stating that it “I read Alien as a bit of a first. It was so outrageous in its idea and story — possession of a body by a massive insect that will lay eggs in you and create other insects. It was remarkable.”
The rejection and inspiration that ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ provoked in Ridley Scott
Food, incredible as it may seem, is one of the main themes of both films. The xenomorph in ‘Alien’ is a hungry predator in search of prey; while the film that features the figure of Leatherface has cannibalism as one of its central themes. Scott talked about ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and what the movie did to him: “It is very difficult to really scare me. I watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was prepping for Alien one Saturday afternoon in the Fox studio in a small theater. It was horrendous, and it scared the shit out of me. I think I started with a hamburger at lunchtime and never took a bite
The fear he felt watching the film directed by Tobe Hooper made him rethink how to make his movie so scary. Both masterpieces were able to capture and continue to cause absolute terror to this day. ‘Alien’ and ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, two film legends released in the 1970s, a time that with other films like ‘The Exorcist’, is considered by many to be the golden age of horror films.
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