A smear of blood blossoms on Kane's chest. Seconds later the fabric of his shirt is ripped open as a small monster head - about the size of a man's fist - bursts through the officer's mangled body!
I read the novelization of Alien before I was able to see the film, so I knew what was about to happen when Kane started coughing and convulsing at the table. Our father, however, did not.
"This thing grabbed onto this guy's face, but then it fell off," I remember him telling mom, after we got home. "And I thought, okay, that must have been the alien and the rest of the movie is going to be about the people on the spaceship. But then the guy starts to get sick at the dinner table and I see Chad's eyes get real wide and he tenses up, so I knew something bad was about to happen."
Alan Dean Foster's description of the event in the novelization was less traumatic than what was shown in the actual movie...
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