E.L. King joins horror enthusiast Timbre to peel back the layers of Alien (1979), Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror masterpiece that gave us one of cinema’s most powerful final girls — Ellen Ripley. We dive into the film through the lens of gender theory: body horror, reproductive terror, phallic imagery, and the fluid identity of Ripley herself. Plus, we examine how H.R. Giger’s designs blurred the line between the mechanical, the erotic, and the monstrous.