8 Lost Movie Scenes That Were Found Years Later

The internet gives us instant access to so much information that makes finding out about deleted scenes and cut material from our favourite movies very easy. If you were an Alien fan in 1979, you may not have known about its most wanted deleted scene for some time. That is unless you picked up the movie’s novelisation which included a sequence now referred to as the “ovomorphing” scene.

Whilst escaping the Nostromo as its self-destruct sequence counts down, Ripley comes across the bodies of two of her former crewmates Brett and Dallas in the belly of the ship. They are encased in matter that looks similar to the egg that the Facehugger had previously sprung forth from, and Dallas begs Ripley to kill him.

It’s the kind of harrowing, gross tragedy that you would expect from the Geiger-driven horror flick. Director Ridley Scott cut the scene because Ripley needed to keep moving with the self-destruction bearing down on her but fans were passionate about the scene that had hit the cutting room floor. Sure, it may have slowed down the pacing but hardcore Alien lorenerds felt that it explained a gap in the Alien’s biology.

The scene was finally shown 13 years later in 1992 on a LaserDisc release and, due to fan demand, was inserted back into Alien as part of the Director’s Cut in 2003 - making it not just found but canon.