10 MORE Horror Movie Moments IMPOSSIBLE To Watch Same Way After This Article

2. A Trippy Button You'll Never Unsee - Alien

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Blasting back to the Alien franchise for this next entry, Ridley Scott's iconic first-ever Xenomorph nightmare is a film packed full of marvellous details.

Perhaps one of the more overlooked sources of interesting information can be seen during the moment when Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) initiates the Nostromo's self-destruct sequence towards the end of the movie.

If you really focus on the buttons on the keypad she typed on, a few quite strangely labelled buttons were visible.

'Agaric Fly' conveniently placed beside the word 'Trip' certainly stands out during a rewatch, with the former being a reverse of the name also used for the psychedelic mushroom Amanita muscaria. Also, that same mushroom is the one that inspired the Super Mushrooms seen in the Super Mario games.

That alone is likely already enough to leave you lingering on this shot for a few extra moments and telling your pals about the Mario cameo in Alien during your next watch of the classic sci-fi horror. But elsewhere, the control panel also contains words like 'Lingha', 'Yoni', and 'Shakti Excess', with many of these being added after designer Simon Deeling was told by Scott to add in buttons that were "complicated and interesting, because they won't be on screen for more than a second or two" (via Alien Explorations).

Influenced by The Secret Doctrine book he was reading by Russian occultist and philosopher Helena Blavatsky, with these pages trying to explain the evolution and origin of the universe through terms derived from the Hindu idea of cyclical development (via TypeSetInTheFuture), Deeling took his inspiration from that book and that's where these words came from.

That's one way to change the way you look at a control panel.

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