I'm fairly certain you're right, Mark.

Sigourney Weaver was "Ripley", but the alien burst out of John Hurt's character's chest.

(But I'm not sure what your film is. The blonde girl who sings is throwing me! I'm sure I'll kick myself when it's revealed...)

Jayne

Thanks. I revised accordingly.

I think there may be a dream sequence at the beginning of the sequel, Aliens, where that happens. Then Sigourney wakes up. Haven't seen it in years. But I love the first one. Watched it last month with my daughter!

Ha. Anyone got mine?

Is it maybe Rosemary's Baby? I don't think so, but it's all I could come up with.

Nope.

Nobody?

Eraserhead.

SPOILERS!


Roger, I have seen the four Alien films. The first came out when I was a University first-year student; I eagerly went to see it several times, mostly because of Sigourney Weaver, and had magazine posters of the film on my bedroom wall. I have seen the sequel twice. So, if I may..

Your memory is not at fault!

Yes - and as I see Mark already confirmed - there IS a scene, in Aliens (the second film = first sequel to Alien),
in which Ripley - attempting to recuperate, following prolonged hypersleep (suspended animation) on her journey back - is shown experiencing with horror an alien bulge moving beneath the skin of her chest - but then wakes up. It had been just a nightmare of PTSD. This experience seems to sway her to join - after all - the proposed mission back to the planet, where contact has been lost with a terraforming colony now well-established there. She has realized that such nightmares will haunt her, regardless, so better to face her fears through direct action than futilely attempt avoidance.

Once on that planet, with space marines, an alien is seen to burst from a woman found embedded - and at first thought to be dead - in alien exudate encrusting a wall. She has been preserved but dies soon.


In the third film - Alien3 - Ripley actually does suffer an alien parasite but chooses to plunge to her death, grasping it as it emerges.


All horrible stuff (and the fourth film is even more gross, in my view). But I think those two or three scenes suffice to explain what you recall seeing.

A thing generated by fear
Dies at once of you scream in its ear
But if you are dumb
And forced to stay stumm
The earwig will get you. Oh, dear.

An 'author' spent day after day
at the typewriter, typing away,
clickety-clack,
but he only wrote Jack
would be dull with all work and no play.

Is yours "The Shining", RogerBob?

The Tingler, Annie! From William Castle, master of subtlety. :) Ah, we're getting ready for Halloween at limerick corner, I see.

And The Shining, yes indeed.