10 Deleted Horror Movie Scenes You Need To See
5. Cocoon - Alien
Alien is home to some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history, and by extension, some of the most iconic scenes in deleted cinema history, too. In the first Alien film that defined science fiction for generations to come, a spaceship crew attempt to survive when an aggressive, 8 foot, acid-blooded extraterrestrial is set loose on their vessel that starts to pick them off one by one.
When Tom Skerritt's Dallas heads into the ducts and is ambushed by the xenomorph, that's the last we see of him. But it isn't the last that Ridley Scott filmed, with an extended sequence featuring a half-digested-looking Skerritt gooped to the wall and left to die next to the body of Brett.
Ripley discovers him and puts him out of his misery with a flamethrower, making for one of the most disturbingly brilliant moments in the franchise - and it never made it to the screen in its full form.
It was re-added to the directors cut, but without Ripley's dialogue that makes it all the more of a gut punch.