The "Treasures of Satan" trail through the 1980s

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The "Treasures of Satan" trail

Anima Mia (1980-81)

a) Anima Mia (1980-81)

Giger painted Anima Mia at the beginning of the 1980s and this went back paintings such as Guernica, Celebes and Dali's "Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone" merging them together with other concepts

See also: Anima Mia (1980-81)

James Cameron's Alien Queen (1986)

b) James Cameron's Alien Queen (1986)

James Cameron with his creature creator Stan Winston created the Alien Queen that bore enough similarities to Giger's Alien Monster IV enough to suggest that this was Cameron's starting point for his immense alien mother and so became one of the most well recognised movie monsters in cinema history.

See also: James Cameron's Alien Queen (1986)