Chestburster | Alien (1979) | First Time Watching Movie Reactions 

It's hard to overstate how iconic this scene is. People simply weren't ready for it in the '70s. Audiences were beyond horrified.

The look Ian Holm gives towards John Hurt before the Alien comes out is unsettling. John Hurt gave a awesome performance in that scene. It can't be overstated

As gruesome as this scene is, it’s unintentionally hilarious. The chestburster emerges with a big ass grin on their face, looks around the room, seemingly yells an obscenity and then runs off 🤣

🎵 Hello my baby, hello my honey Hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire Baby, my heart's on fire! 🎵

Thanks for including us!!! What a movie lol!!! Shout out to all the other reactors!!

"Bring him some water!" "Water my ass! Get this guy some Pepto Bismol!"

Just goes to show you how timeless this film is when over 4 decades later people are still reacting in utter shock and terror just as audiences did when the movie first came out Truly an absolute classic that stands the test of time

My Mom took me to see Alien in theater one slow Sunday evening, thinking it was going to be like Star Wars. The face-hugger scene darned near gave her a heart attack; the chest-buster scene had her dropping everything (popcorn, soda, etc.,) and running for the door. She sat in the car in the parking lot waiting for me while I watched the rest of the movie.

I love Simones reaction when it ran across the table. 🤣🤣 She looked like it was coming straight at her. Love her 🤣

Dan O’Bannon put his finger on the problem: what has to happen next is the creature has to get on the ship in an interesting way. I have no idea how, but if we could solve that, if it can't be that it just snuck in, then I think the whole movie will come into place. In the middle of the night, I woke up and I said, "Dan I think I have an idea: the alien screws one of them ….. it jumps on his face and plants its seed!" And Dan says, “Oh my god, we've got it, we've got the whole movie.” -Screenwriter Ron Shusett [Wikipedia]

Love that the cast surrounding Kane had no idea this was going to go like this, and we are rewarded with their genuine reactions.

Veronica Cartwright's career took a huge leap forward, thanks to this film. She came a long way from having birds trying to eat her when she was a child!

No one else in the scene knew about the chest-buster, so their reactions are genuine.

Everyone gets mad at Ash for saying to not touch it when Parker goes at it with the knife, but they're all forgetting that the thing still has acid blood. If they killed it right there, the acid would bleed through the hull and possibly kill everyone there, or the acid would get on one of them and kill them that way. Either way, there's no safe way to handle it, and you can't just grab it because it's already capable of biting through flesh.

I was 14 when I saw this in the theater in 1979. It wasn’t Star Wars. I didn’t sleep without night terrors for three days I think. Classic Sci Fi horror. I’ve seen every Alien movie since, and none come close to this in sheer edge of your seat terror.

This scene is so entrenched in pop culture that it's easy to forget that once upon a time, people DIDN'T know what was coming. This reaction montage is a perfect reminder of how damn effective the scene is.

Mr. Lebowski, You are officially the the Goat at these compilations keep it up, Let the world see people become cultured!!!

Love the fact that a 1979 movie, using ONLY practical effects can scare people MORE than CGI effects can ever hope to achieve. I mean, we are talking about mostly a whole generation growing up with "CGI domination" of the effects industry, and yet a movie that came out BEFORE CGI was invented can freak them out? That says something about the JOY of "practical effects" having a true "realistic feeling" that is felt not just on screen by the actors and crew filming the movie, but the audience as well that can get a true "visceral" (physical) feeling to what they are seeing.

Fascinating! People willingly watching a horror film, then putting up their hands to keep themselves from seeing the horror film. Some will even open their fingers a bit so they can still see the horror.....😆😆

I love that the reactors had the same reaction the crew had on set 💯😂

"I am not an animal!" "I am a Xenomorph!" Sceeeeeeeeechhhhhhhhh.

Did you know that Ridley Scoot hid from the actors what was going to happen on the scene? The reactions of the actors of fright and disgust for the blood are genuine. The only one who knew about this was actor the John Hurt (Kane) RIP.

The ominous heartbeat in this scene is heard a few more times in the movie indicating that a character is about to be killed by the alien.

All I can say is, I was a teen just going on 13 when I went to see this in the theaters in 1979 with my dad. I was NOT ready for this scene, and it stuck with me for life! Hell, the whole movie stuck with me to this day and I can easily say it is THE SINGLE greatest Sci-Fi Horror film ever made! I remember three people upchucking into their popcorn bags when this scene played out, then running to the restroom! We ALL screamed, making it sound like the whole theater was being attacked all at once! It was a packed theater too! One helluva movie and one scary ass film! When my dad and I got home, mom just took one look at me and said "I KNEW it! I KNEW it!", but he fumbled trying to tell her there was no nudity, very few cuss words.....and she asked, "Then why does he look like that??"......he TRIED to explain this scene to her, and she simply rolled her eyes and walked off. Best Movie Experience of my life!

See Veronica Cartwright's face when the chestburster came out, really, absolutely no one knew what would happen!!

When I was little I got the Thing and the chestburster confused because of this scene and the scene where the doctor gets his hands ripped off. I thought they were from the same movie 😅

1:26 I absolutely love these audience's reaction👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Crazy fact none of the actors on set knew that the actual chess burst seen was going to happen like that. The only ones that actually knew what the directors John hurt himself and a few of the crew members. When the blood spurted on Yaphet Koto's face, that was 100% all real reaction.

I wish more people reacted to Amadeus. Defiling Salieri's music was a great scene.

"When Harry & Sally Met Alien" (2024) Harry: "I won't have what he's having."

There were a lot of people on the edge of their seats at the cinema in 1979 I was one of them.

Thought I was finally seeing a Cinebinge & Dasha collab when I saw the thumbnail.

Epic moment, seen it hundreds of times and it still gets me. This was great, great reactions, thx. And please, if you could, maybe ,one day ,do "pay it forward"

That's probably the mostfun reaction compilation yet.

Kane is drinking "Weylan Yutani Alpine Beer" before he dies. The table is made from plastic and fiberglass. A table made for Burger King.

Just to be clear, JustTrustAsh (the Iranian guy) has seen the movie before so he's laughing at his girlfriend's reaction, not at the guy dying, lol

The funny thing is thats exactly what its supposed to look like if you know HRs work. The resemblance is entirely intentional.

My parents saw this in the theater. It hit folks *hard* back then.

that outfit from dasha tho… yumm

You know what would lighten the mood right now? A musical number! 🎶 Hello, my baby! Hello, my honey! Hello, my ragtime gal! 🎶

I've got a mashup suggestion: the gun room scene from Tremors.

Oh god, there are the "homies", in between onlyfans shoots 🤣🤣

It was ace to hear the group reaction being so animated, 51 years after the film's release. Testament to the film's place in history.

My father took us to see this when it came out. I was 7-8. The theatre was empty and I was sitting on the back of the chairs like a bad kid. I fall over when this happened. I think we maybe have seen The Black Hole at the same time.

A man's biggest fear of getting pregnant but there is a monster inside

better than the actual react channels haha. Would love to see a compilation of the ride of the rohirrim from two towers :D and ROTK

I love this reaction vids. Plz, do the bus fight from "Nobody" a.k.a. pissed off Saul Goodman.

You need to do reaction mashup to the ending of "The Fly".

Waiting patiently for a mashup of The Godfather! Jack Woltz's dinner with Tom Hagen and the consequences, please!

I just realized recently that Ian Holm also played Bilbo Baggins. Shame on me! 😮

Oh man this scene is were the horror begins. Thank u 💓

you must make the schene from spiderman 3 (no way home) when garfield saves MJ from the fall !!!!

I wish I could have seen this movie in the theater when it came out

The actors knew something was going to happen bit they didnt know what........ha,ha..ha.

Fun fact: none of the other actors knew this was going to happen and what we are seeing are 100% real reactions

While Ash is obviously trying to protect the Alien, he is also correct in telling Parker to not stab it. These reactors seem to forget about the acid blood.

1:27-2:10; 2:38-3:26 #Iconic

"Oh no, not again!"

"Dinosaur" - 😂

Glad somebody picked up Ash's creepy vibes.

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There's a very famous artist who ceated the alien and many of the set designs. His name was H.R. Giger ... Ridley Scott noticed a piece of his art that had an alien in it. That alien would eventually become know as the Xenomorph. Scott knew instantly that that's what he wanted his alien to look like. That said... Giger's art is filled to the rafters with sexual innuendo. Hell, its usually not even innuendo, its as blatant as it gets. So, there's no coincidence that the baby alien looks like an angry penis and the adult Xenomorph's head looks like one as well. Just google his artwork and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Xenomorph is by far and away the coolest and scariest alien in film history!! P.S. my favourite movie set of all time is in Alien when they see the Space Jockey. If you look at the machine it's sitting in, the telescope looking part makes the entire thing look just like a penis and scrotum lmaooo R.I.P. H.R. Giger!! 😂

Daw! It's got his eyes!

Cool 😎 movie

Hey Mr Lebowski. How about Glory. The 54th Massachusetts assaults Ft Wagner?

Youremrlebowski I got another another mashup react idea for you doThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 the scene where Franklin gets butchered by Leatherface in dark woods

Hello, I previously watched the docking scene from the movie Interstellar, but I can no longer find it. Have you deleted it? Answer me please.

Please do the 1989 "The Shocker" reaction?

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Please do the 1986 "Night Of The Creeps" reaction?

Please do the 1988 "The Blob" reaction?

- and this was before all the business with nanites and converting one life-form into the other. The 'Alien' was called 'biomechanical', a term for mixed biological and mechanical, akin to a cyborg. It was planted in Kane and left when it needed to, then connected itself to the electrics of the ship and grew to larger than man-sized in a couple of hours, no 'assimilation' needed.

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It's a dinosaur!

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Hello my baby hello my honey

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I hate this movie 😡

Another home run! There are few things as amusing as Simone going, "no no no no no no!!" while trying not to look.

This is why I stopped eating those Trader Joe’s shepherds pies.

Veronica Cartwright's "oh god!" really made that scene hit dint it? I think she remembered when all those birds attacked her as a kid.

its a common misconception that the actors had no idea it was going to happen (there was a big prosthetic and techs around the table something was up) they didn't know what WAS going to happen and Cartwrights reaction was due to the unexpected blood they decided to shower on her which she actually slipped on before they cut

lol… watching influencers fake reactions. Like the 40 yr old who’s going to listen to Michael Jackson for the “first time!” 😂😂😂

Now add the "extended cut" You know.. "Space balls" ending.

None of them were ready... 😂😂😂😂

oh my god this stuff never gets old

Could you give the reactions to Hachiko's death? Please?

I hate parasites

The best reaction I heard in this video was "it looks like a naked mole rat". They weren't wrong lol