Alien inspired by Vidocq

In 2002, I watched the movie Vidocq made in 2001 by Pitof who was one of the star people in production department of Alien Resurrection. I noticed the scene where the human victims of the alchemist are found hanging inverted having their blood drained into a central pool, it reminded me of Sylvain Despretz' concept art of inverted cocooned people in the queen's layer having their blood drained into a central pool to feed the newborn.

The featureless mirror mask of the Alchemist became my new alien, perhaps something such as the alien King that people always talked about or the Primogenitor that they also talked about. I imagined that the mask became a gelatinous covering which could shape shift and a maw would open up through which the alien's inner mouth and skull would be at times visible. I thought that the original Alien's face could not be beaten so it was time to withdraw from anything further interesting and new.

It looked though in Prometheus concept designs, they were asking the same sorts of questions looking at the same sort of concept and my thoughts about an alien inspired by the alchemist and an alien layer inspired by his seemed even more important

See: Vidocq at the Alien Explorations site

chamber of Cocooned victims, their blood dripping down to collect in a pool down below December 2013

And from the pool of blood the alien creature springs
December 2013

Alien creature slightly inspired by the Deacon from Prometheus.
December 2013