| 1984
Retrospective exhibition in the Pfäffikom
Culture Center; exhibition catalogue published
by Edition ABC. Film on the retrospective
by Daniel Freitag and Rolando Colla. Ron Moore,
director of Future Kill, persuades Giger to
design the posters for his film. The posters
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by Ed Neal, the legendary Texas Chainsaw Massacre
actor. Collaboration with Martin Schwarz.
Approximately fifteen paintings are produced.
Friendship with Marlyse greatly influences
Giger’s image of women. |
| 1985
Commissioned by MGM to create various horror
scenes for the film Poltergeist II, under
the direction of Brian Gibson. On December
1, 1984, H.R.G. and his manager fly to Los
Angeles. H.R.G. is signed for the film.
Giger’s colleague, de Fries, hired by
Richard Edlund (Boss Film), tries to push
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many
of Giger’s ideas as possible. De Fries
is permitted to produce only models, however.
On May 23, 1985, filming starts on location,
a supermarket in the desert near Los Angeles.
Giger and his manager meet Julian Beck, the
terminally-ill former head of the Living Theater.
H.R.G. realizes he’s worrying on the
wrong film. Too late! When he signed his contract,
no one had been willing of able to give H.R.G
any details of Aliens, going into production
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same time. The early rushes of the children’s
horror movie Poltergeist II, written by Michael
Grais and Mark Viktor, look professional.
Richard Edlund’s special effects have
not been filmed yet, bit nevertheless, H.R.G.
is worried about the quality of the final
product, since the storyline is weak and not
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